On Wednesday, an Acer spokesperson told ZDNet UK that the 10-inch Aspire One “will be available with XP or Linux, and HDD or SSD”, and confirmed that the Linux distribution would be Linpus. However, buyers will not have these options in the initial release of the netbook, which will launch in mid-February and cost £299. [...]
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Acer Aspire One – Ubuntu netbook
August 14th, 2008 
ACER’s Aspire One is a solid netbook, but it can be much more. In the last two weeks, I’ve been using it as a full notebook, running office applications, editing digital photos, surfing the Web and watching videos on a robust, full-featured system. The remarkable thing is, I’m doing it on a such a small, [...]
Acer Aspire One First Impressions (8gb SSD, Linux Version)
July 9th, 2008 smacman, member on our message forum, has a good summary of the Acer Aspire One. “The build quality is very good in my opinion. One of the reasons I held off from buying the EEE PC was it’s toy like flimsy feel. The Aspire One feels more like a real laptop yet retains the ultra [...]
