Acer Aspire One AOD150-1165 Blue Intel Atom N270(1.60 GHz) 10.1" WSVGA 1GB Memory 160GB HDD Netbook

Pros: I am very impressed so far with this netbook and I must say it has exceeded my expectations! It is so handy to have such a small formfactor that delivers so much power with so little heat. This net-book runs quiet and cool and has plenty of power for everyday things such as email and net surfing. It comes with XP Home Edition with Service pack 3 installed. I only had to add around 21 more megabytes of downloads from Windows updates to have it fully updated. That is not including the latest 248 MB 3.5 .NET upgrade which I skipped for now. The battery it comes with provides up to 6 hours of up-time for me with no changed settings in power options. I am certain I could add more time if i were to tweak the power settings, but six hours is more than sufficient for me at this time with everything enabled. It is one of the best investments I have made in quite awhile and that is saying alot as I have purchased many things from Newegg in the last few months!

Cons: <Begin Cons>The only con I have is the Synaptics touch-pad is a bit annoying at times with its little swirly that pops up and the onboard touchpad buttons (left/right) are WAY too hard to push. <End Con> I bought an external wireless mouse and it is much easier to just use that instead of the touchpad. I bought the Microsoft Wireless 3000 mouse in the Blue color and it is "almost" the same color as the Acer Netbook itself. It is a close match for sure. Do yourself a favor and get a nice wireless mouse to complement your Netbook purchase. I purchased Newegg Item#:N82E16826105229 for those that are interested. The keyboard takes a little getting used to, but considering that this Netbook is so amazingly compact, this keyboard is actually GREAT with good feedback and a short learning curve. I really don't consider the keyboard a con. The Onboard Wireless is easy to configure and found my network with no problem. After supplying my encryption key I was up and running!

Overall Review: I have been looking around for some games that will run on this netbook and so far I have found that PopCap games will run of course and Starcraft and its accompanying expansion pack. You will need an external cd/dvd drive to get the games on there initially, but Starcraft can be enabled to run without the CD present after the online patch is installed. I am sure other games will run, but I have only just begun to play around with that feature as it is just a bonus to an overall nice Netbook. I am certain I will be able to play ALL of my "legacy" old-school games on here and maybe some newer ones as well. Concerning the RAM: You can also upgrade the RAM from 1 GB to 2 GB very easily as well. It is readily accessible under the hatch on the bottom of the Netbook. I purchased Newegg item #N82E16820145172 and installed it and it is working perfectly! Overall, this is a great netbook at a great price that comes with a 6-cell battery, great wireless capability and great range!

Pros: Good build quality, very long battery life (8-10 hours) with idle desktop (5-6 hours) heavy usage. The hard drive is really nice large enough to boot with XP, Vista/win7, and OS X, and still have 95gb left over. Very easy to upgrade the memory to 2gb. It has access ports to the Hdd, Memory, and wifi card. I installed all three of the above OS's and Windows 7 screams on this machine. It's slightly bigger than the older Acer Asipire netbooks and the Dell mini however the extra 1" does help with a wider screen and keyboard layout. It plays Divx movies great, and plays older pre 2005 RTS games like StarCraft, Age of empires, and Empire earth II very well. 3 USB ports are perfect.

Cons: The glossy casing and screen does attract fingerprints very easily, usually stuff like this doesn't bother me but if you want it to look nice you'll be wiping off the fingerprints with a damp cloth daily. The mouse isn’t to bad, it is small and I usually double click on the touchpad more than the buttons. The buttons are stiff. I recommend a bluetooth adaptor for about $15 bucks and a bluetooth mouse for about $40.

Overall Review: If your accustom to reinstalling windows, booting from a flash thumb drive is a bit more tricky then a CD. There's plenty of advice and step-by-steps out there. Acer made a hidden driver folder under the C:\ if you unhide all your folder view options and want to reinstall windows I recommend you backup that "Acer" driver directory, it contains the Sata hdd drivers which are really hard to find on the web since this is a new machine. Overall I'm really happy with this machine. I never cared for laptops because a 15" screen was a pain to lug around but this is so small and mobile it's perfect. The price is worth the extra features and the Dell mini can't come close to its options.

Pros: Its got a smaller footprint than I expected. It feels like its well made! It was cheap. The screen is bright, and the keyboard, although being smaller than normal, is absolutely usable. Once all the bloat-ware is removed, the computer is FAST. I cleaned the heck out of the system (registry, unnecessary programs etc) and it boots to XP in 25 seconds, to the point when everything is done loading. Battery life is very good. I spent the afternoon installing a ton of stuff on the huge hard drive, and it lasted almost 4 hours. Thats with multiple restarts, and powering an external cd rom for a bit. The thing that blows me away is that they've changed the case to allow easy access to the ram. This was not true on the previous model.

Cons: Came with a bunch of useless software pre-installed which only slowed everything down. However once removed that con is gone. The trackpad is only ok, and its small. You keep running out of real estate so you're going to need an external mouse for extended use.

Overall Review: Im extremely pleased with this computer so far! Its super light-weight, the 160GB drive is huge, and its got plenty of power for whatever a netbook is supposed to be used for. Owners should check out aspireoneuser.com/forum for a wealth of info.

Pros: Wow, what a great little computer. I love my new Aspire One. The screen is clear and bright, very easy to read. The computer is very speedy, plenty fast for internet browsing, word processing and most daily tasks. The keyboard is small but has good tactical feel. Acer really improved the ease of upgrading memory and harddrive on this model. There are access covers on the bottom for both. Memory is a single 1GB SODIMM. No more 512MB on board. The speakers are loud and clear, good sound. Battery life great. You'll just need to turn the display brightness down a bit to get maximum life. It'll last the rated 5-6 hours easy. What impressed me the most is how solidly the unit is built. It uses thick plastic, no bending or flexing at all, doesn't feel "cheap" The unit is very quiet, no fan noise at all. Also it runs very cool.

Cons: The buttons on the trackpad take a bit too much force to press. An external mouse helps for longer use. Occasionally I find myself hitting the wrong keys on the keyboard because of how closely they are spaced.

Overall Review: Acer really has a winner with the new 10" Aspire One.

Pros: Fast and ultra-portable at the right price. I love this netbook. I carry it everywhere. I bought it mainly as a travel computer for internet usage from hotel rooms and as a place to store photos while on vacation but it has proved itself to be so much more. The battery life is fantastic. We get 6-8 hours on a charge with normal use. My wife and I carry this little guy everywhere both at home and away. It's so much lighter than our other notebook and we use it daily as a super portable TV (thanks to our Slingbox). We're a two person, four PC household and the Acer Aspire is our new favorite.

Cons: The touchpad and mouse buttons could be more responsive but it's not really an issue. They work well enough and a small, portable, external mouse fixes any complaint I might have.

Overall Review: I see that some reviews complain that it lacks an optical drive, but if you know what you are buying then you aren't expecting one. Other reviews complain that it isn't a gaming rig, but then it doesn't profess to be. You may not be playing Crysis on this thing but it's more than enough computer for internet, and other portable office and person apps, including a lot of games and portable enough to actually make it useful.

Pros: great netbook, defintely glad i got this. Its superquick, lightweight and everything that i want. I actually sold Compaq dual core laptop for this b/c all i was using the compaq for was the internet and AIM which this handles with no problems. has all the connections i use, wi-fi, usb, vga, etc. Its great. My friends even have the dell mini 9 and and the MSI Wind, and we were all playing quake III on our netbooks, and mine handled it with no problems while the others had a little bit of lag every once in a while. Also the battery life is superb outlasting both the dell and the MSI by quite at least an hour or two.

Cons: Touchpad, like everyone else has said is a little too sensitive and the buttons r a little too stiff, easy remedy though is to get an external mouse. Only other thing is i wish the VGA port was on the otherside, but thats just a personal preference not really a con.

Overall Review: Acer did an excellent job with this netbook. Before i thought most of their products were just mediocre, but after reading lots of reviews on this netbook and their last one, i decided to give this a shot, and was greatly impressed. I would recommend this to anyone who needs something ultra light, to surf the net, watch movies without the DVD, chat, and play some light old school gaming on. Great job Acer and thank you newegg for getting it to me fast!!!

Pros: Battery life is awesome! With stock power profile (Standy after 5 mins etc.) wife can use it off and on all day wthout external power no sweat. Screen looks great. Built-in WiFi works very well. Plenty of storage space and USB inputs. Card reader was a nice bonus. Extremely lightweight. Built-in webcam works great with Skype and works a lot better than the Logitech Quickcam we used to use. Better picture and less lag.

Cons: Built-in touchpad mouse buttons not great. Touchpad is fine but buttons have to be pressed hard to get feedback. Grab an external USB optical mouse for extended use. No Optical drive, but that's kind of the point of netbooks so not really a Con.

Overall Review: My wife had been using my old clunker laptop to browse and message etc. Battery life sucked and boot up times were horrendous. Upgraded RAM in this one to 2 Gigs and she actually thanks me every day for it. She's on it nonstop, actually leaves it in the kitchen and hops on all the time. Puts it in a drawer when not in use, no need for giant laptop bag. Definitely recommend external USB optical mouse and get a 2GB stick of RAM. Can get by with 1GB, but it'll be a little pokey. Newegg Item#:N82E16820227236 I plan to put Windows 7 on when released.

Pros: It is just the "right" size small for a device like this. The battery life is insane, lasting 6-7 hours. The screen is on the larger side for these kinds of netbooks and is nice and bright. It's very light, less than 3 lbs. Extremely portable. Even the AC adapter itself is pretty small and has good length and has a 3 prong wall plug. The keyboard is of course smallish but you do you get used to it. I'm a guy with fairly larger hands and I've adapted well with my touch typing. Overall it has been able to handle anything I can throw at it, even some World of Warcraft at medium-low settings! Good for doing some AH business and puttering with an alt toon =) Stays pretty cool too. No annoying fans or anything. 3 USB ports and the card reader are nice. The headphone/mic jacks are easily accessible too. The wireless works very well and is quick. I upgraded the RAM for a mere 12 bucks from here on Newegg up to 2GB as well. Look for DDR2 SDRAM - 533 MHz SO DIMM 200-pin 1GB modules.

Cons: Well...the outside case is beautiful but smudges fairly easily. The bloatware that comes with it is pretty annoying. After unpacking the notebook and booting it up, it took me good few hours to get all the stuff that came with it (Google Desktop, MacAffee, Works etc) off and getting it patched up through Windows Updates and d/l AVG etc. Once though you get all the junk off and tweaked to your liking, it really runs great. It doesn't have a CD/DVD drive so for the time being I've shared a CD/DVD drive on my main desktop PC and access it from the notebook. This how I installed some applications. I have on order from Newegg a slim external CD/DVD drive that is USB powered only. That was about $60 shipped and is good investment for times when you need to install & not have to fart around with sharing your main PCs optical drives or using some kind of virtual drive mounting software. A small wireless mouse seems like a good idea for reasons listed by others.

Overall Review: Just continuing my con, the mouse issue I guess is more personal. I haven't had a terrible time with touchpad but it can be a little annoying here and there along with the buttons. I does have Windows XP Home edition which is nice and familar but as others have mentioned, you can really put whatever you want on it. Overall this is one of the best PC/laptop purchases I have ever made. It is exactly what I've been looking for in a nice compliment to my main PC and for taking to my night classes.