[nabs-l] netbook replacing notetakers

[T. Joseph Carter]

The Aspire One is a cute machine.  I couldn't use its keyboard 
however.  Unfortunately when you start looking for ultralight systems 
with real keyboards, you start looking at some pretty expensive 
laptops instead of cheap netbooks, despite the fact that the laptops 
in question are pretty similar to a netbook in terms of speed and 
features.  Sony, Lenovo, and IBM all make laptops around three pounds 
with massively scaled-back performance that rightly should be called 
netbooks, but cost more than some notetakers.

They're sure nice machines if you have a "real" computer at home.

Joseph

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 09:11:17AM -0500, Sarah J. Blake wrote:
> The machine I am using is the Acer Aspire One. The keyboard is only 
> slightly than the one on my Lenovo Thinkpad S61. There are arrow keys on 
> the lower righthand side, pgup above left arrow and pgdn above right 
> arrow. Used with function key (which is 2nd key from bottom left next to 
> ctrl) pgup and pgdn are home and end respectively. Del is on the top 
> right and ins is next to it. Esc and F keys are on the top row. Main 
> keyboard is standard. The touchpad is very small, below spacebar, and can 
> be disabled with fn+F7. Screen backlight disables with fn+F6. Fn+up and 
> down arrows control the volume; fn+left and right arrows control screen 
> brightness.
>
> The unit has a card slot, USB port, ethernet, monitor port, and power  
> connection on left side and mic jack, earphone, two USB, and card slot on 
> the right side. Internal mic is very good quality for this type of  
> machine--it is located on the hinge behind the keyboard. Webcam is in the 
> center top of the lid when open. Speakers are stereo.
>
> Like a number of new laptops, this machine uses the Intel Graphics Mobile 
> Accelerator. It took some tweaking to make it play nice with JAWS, but it 
> is doable. I would blame this on Acer, but I had the same problem with 
> Lenovo and I suspect that FS will need to address compatibility issues 
> with these configurations. Perhaps it is less of an issue with Vista; but 
> I refuse to use Vista at this point in time. The Acer machine comes with 
> XP Home. At first glance, it seems to be a low-power machine: it has 1GB 
> of memory. However, I am running it fairly hard: often have seven or 
> eight windows open including Word. There are a few things that can be 
> disabled in order to free up some memory for your own use. It is running 
> generally as well as my 3GB/3GHZ machine.
>
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