Teeny Weeny Laptop
Submitted: Sunday, Aug 10, 2008 at 20:49
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Gone Bush (WA)
I bought one of these from Dickies the other day:
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Acer Aspire One (XC4472 for the white one.)
8.9" screen. 1gb RAM. 120gb HDD. wireless etc.
Just right size for a laptop in the car. Perfect for OziExplorer.
No disc drive but you can get around that with SD cards and thumbdrives.
$698 then you get $99 cashback. That's crazy.
No affiliation etc etc.... just pointing out what I think is a good buy.
Reply By: TD100 - Sunday, Aug 10, 2008 at 20:57
Sunday, Aug 10, 2008 at 20:57
GB,
saw these myself in JB HiFi in black,white and silver.couple of different brands and i also was think gee i could................... hahaha the
cook would probably shoot me! Paul
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Follow Up By: Gazal Champion - Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 17:54
Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 17:54
Hi TD100,
Your a mug, buy it for the
cook that way you might get to play with it Hehehehe.
Regards,
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Reply By: Member - Nev (TAS) - Sunday, Aug 10, 2008 at 21:01
Sunday, Aug 10, 2008 at 21:01
Hi there,
these don't look too bad. We trialled one about 6 weeks back. You can buy an external DVD burner to plug into the USB if you want. Not very expensive and
well worth it as a backup system. That way you can use it on any PC with usb ports
Hope it all goes
well.
Rgds
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Follow Up By: Member - Nev (TAS) - Sunday, Aug 10, 2008 at 21:03
Sunday, Aug 10, 2008 at 21:03
That should have read that you could use the external DVD on any PC with a USB port
too many thumbs
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Reply By: Member - extfilm (NSW) - Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 00:14
Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 00:14
Hey gone bush,
Haven't quite decided whether I would go the acer or the eeepc? would be very interesting on how yours goes as I have seen it a DSE but not really been able to do too much research on it.
Would be interested to hear your feed back, especially as I need to also use it to transfer pics to external hard drives. Doues it have firewire?
Peter
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Follow Up By: Gone Bush (WA) - Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 00:23
Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 00:23
No firewire Peter but 3 USB ports.
Full specs are here:
Acer Netbook
cheers
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Reply By: age - Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 06:52
Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 06:52
All
Also a cheaper version of the Apire 1 at The Good Guys at the moment for $399 (512K Ram, 8GB SSHD - looks similar spec to one of the EEEPC range). Will check it out this week
A
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Follow Up By: Member - joc45 (WA) - Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 08:08
Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 08:08
Careful! I think it's got Linux on it. Won't work with OziExplorer. A bargain tho.
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Follow Up By: age - Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 09:23
Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 09:23
Joc
Simple to load XP on it though
Gone Bush - Did Acer supply a drivers disc at all with your package - especially with Windows drivers ?
Cheers
A
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Follow Up By: Gone Bush (WA) - Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:14
Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:14
Joc,
no driver disc....
no disc drive to put it in.
It's partitioned on the Hard Drive.
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Follow Up By: age - Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:47
Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:47
I realise there is no disc drive, but you can attach a USB CD/DVD drive to them easily. With the EEEPC ASUS give you a disc with all the Linux and XP drivers on it so you can rebuild Linux/Xp at any given time and load appropriate drivers form the disc. I have had a quick look on the Acer website, but it was difficult to navigate and I do not know the model numbers for these little machines, so it was hard to identify what drivers Acer are suporting online. Looks like a Ram upgrade in the cheaper Linux version is a bit harder to do than with the EEEPC (partial dis-assemble v's Ram door access), so perhaps the Windows Aspire 1 with 1.5Gb Ram is a better option than the Linux (512k).
A
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Reply By: Robin Miller - Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:28
Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 10:28
These little things sound good Gone Bush.
How is the display , can you read it in
bright non-direct sunlight, I have found most to be poor so far.
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Follow Up By: Gone Bush (WA) - Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:10
Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:10
Robin,
it's just as bad as any laptop in direct or indirect sunlight.
Sorry to say, things have not improved in that aspect.
cheers
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Follow Up By: Robin Miller - Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:23
Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:23
Yeah probably Gone Bush , surprisingly I just wandered past one (two actually , one white,one bluish ) , next to a 15 inch screen HP in D Smith and the little unit looked brighter , maybe it was just less total reflected glare.
They look good and its sort of thing I want for
camping , just putting the cars workshop manual on it saves nett weight.
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Follow Up By: Gone Bush (WA) - Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:35
Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:35
An external disc drive would probably be a good purchase as
well.
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Reply By: Gone Bush (WA) - Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:55
Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:55
Just for people's interest:
if anyone buys one of these or already has a laptop and finds that you can't download web pages while on WIRELESS and on BATTERIES then I have found the setting to select to eliminate this issue.
Just MM me if you need to know.
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Follow Up By: Member - bungarra (WA) - Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 21:59
Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 21:59
G'day Gone Bush
Thanks for this post..it sound ideal for the purpose of ozi explorer and the workshop manual...I will pick one up tomorrow when passing through.....
Regards
G
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Follow Up By: Gone Bush (WA) - Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 22:11
Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 22:11
G'day Bungarra,
Suggest you give some thought to an external DVD drive as
well.
That will be the best and easiest way to load software.
cheers
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Follow Up By: Member - bungarra (WA) - Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 22:37
Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 22:37
Thanks...DVD or CD?...or these days are these drives all universal
cheers
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Follow Up By: Gone Bush (WA) - Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 22:49
Monday, Aug 11, 2008 at 22:49
They are all DVD burners these days.
I've ordered XH1731 from Dickie's in Mandurah. They will have some in a few days.
Details here
cheers
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Follow Up By: Member - bungarra (WA) - Wednesday, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:43
Wednesday, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:43
G'day Gone Bush
picked one up yesterday in
Perth ..........great little unit. Will do the same as you re the USB drive.........thanks again
G
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