Acer Aspire One A110-A 0.5GB 8GB Reviews: Linux 8.9" Screen Laptop computer

+ compact, quick, lightweight, easy to get the hang of.

- internet may be awkward on some netbooks and fine on others, i found codes online to solve this. also, to open up the full menu you have to go online for another code. navagating is tricky at first if you're not used to linux, but you DO get used to it!!!

+ Size, convenience, speed of loading operating system, fun-ness,

- Cant use my mobile broadband stick. Powerpoint runs very slow. Wont run Quicktime.

+ Very light and for basic computing tasks its perfect.

- Linux takes some getting used to and difficult to customise, simple things like mapping a network drive are near impossible!

+ This was bought for my 11 year old daughter it worked really easy for her and she is able to do everything she needs to on it for school

- Hard to get optical mouse to work with this but thats the only problem

+ excellant little pice of kit so simple kids just love it, very fast easy to use interface. conection to wireless network is a breeze finds it straight away.

- cant acsess files in a shared folder on network as far as i can work out.

+ the machine is a great size -very nice display. Extremely easy to set up and start running-perfect for general use-esp a child or teenager-open office is bery easy to use-plus option of saving docs as word

- hard to think of really-my son loves it- memory could be bigger and no CD -but this hasn't proved a problem for us

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- trying to set up msn is difficult

+ beautiful design simple to understand perfect size etc

- no help if you're not very technical. can't make easy internet connection maybe just need a bit of help and to get used to this.

+ Its good on the internet and good at playing videos and does everything you need it to do.

- No disc drive, boot setup menu isn't good because you set up a password for it and then it doesn't recognize it when you try to get on the setup menu. The key board is in the wrong region as well.

+ Well built, easy to use, keyboard larger than other netbooks

- Would be helpful if the battery life was longer

+ You get so much built in for just a small price. IT'S GREAT!!!!

- the screen is a little small and it doesn't let you download a load of things

+ small and compact

- does not run on windows

+ price

- no windows

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- The trackpad and buttons are pretty horrible to use

+ EASY TO USE

- A LITTLE COSTLY

+ Does just what it says on the tin! For the price, an excellent little machine

- Mousepad is a little awkward at first

+ great little computer that fits anywhere

- only thing is that you cannot put any discs into the unit

+ ideal for surfing the net ,compact and easy to set up and use,very good price,and had no problems so far ideal has a first computer/ laptop

- no bad points have been found to

+ Ipurchased this product for my daughter ,its very compact and has all she needs for home work,well worth the money and she is very pleased

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+ I have been greatly impressed with this product. It seems to have most of the utility of my standard PC and laptop in a package which is half the physical size of the laptop. It starts up and shuts down swiftly.

- It should really be sold with a proper carrying case/wallet which Ihave had to purchase separately. Otherwise, an excellent product.

+ small, quick to load up, lots of access points on to various systems

- Had to download a lot of live updates before it would work properly and be able to access certain sites such as MSN using built-in web cam. This was not made clear in instructions and took me some time to work out.

+ fantastic for my daughters school work.She can easily carry it in her hand bag so its not obvious to others.I was a bit concernd she might of thought it was to small but she loves it and where she goes it goes with her.

- none.

+ light,easy to use,fast,good battery life,fast connection all round excellant

- haven't found any yet

+ I havent a clue, but my ten year old son whose birthday present it was has barely put it down since.

- None so he tells me.
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- set to U.S key board so difficult to find certain charactors such as @

+ Light, small, actually the meaning of portable whilst still reasonably powerful.

- not big hard drive, not good for people used to/dependent on windows/mac to navigate.

+ very easy to use ideal for children

- none found

+ Size and quick start up

- None found yet

+ Price
Build Quality
Keyboard
the operating system

- battery

+ Not windows operating system but definately comparable. Set up was easy - as was connection to wireless connection

- none - as yet but have only been using product for few days

+ small and easy to use, works just as good and as fast as a regular laptop.

- has mozilla firefox network so unable to connect to certain sites,also it as no disk entry and the speakers are on the bottom.

+ It does everything I need.I wanted a laptop to use when children are doing their homework.

- Sometimes it goes back a page or two when i try navigate the mouse pad but I'm sure its something adjustable on the settings but I'm a novice on the p.c.

+ Clear, bright screen. Easy to use, intuitve operating system. Quite fast despite modest processor and memory.

- Battery life.

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- short battery life

+ Compact, lightweight and clear display. managed to get email working quite quickly. For a computer illiterate person like myself that is a definite plus point.

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+ Very small and compact, works straight out of the box.

- Connected to home internet via Ethernet cable, this did take me a while to realise this though.

+ its small and nice to look at, fast connection to internet

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+ ideal starter laptop for my children, simple and easy to use.

- unable to personalise the home screen.

+ GREAT CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR OUR SON WAS JUST THE RIGHT SIZE

- NOT FOUND ANY YET

+ a great note book and saves my daughter from running of with my laptop

- no proplems as yet

+ much quicker than my normal laptop

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+ size. portability

- none really for size/price. Good for the elderly, students, someone who does not need it for work, but personal use .

+ compact, light, and portable

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+ Size, price

- Battery life

+ Fast, small, good looking, does everything I want it to.

- None

+ small portable and easy to use

- Hard for internet connection on the go

+ Keyboard

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+ Great for taking on holiday for internet, emails and photo organization.

- nothing - for what it costs you get nothing fancy.

+ I thought the product was very good

- None that I found

+ small lightweight, fast to boot

- poor battery life.
Long update times

+ very good

- none

+ It is perfect for my daughter for web browsing and messaging, not too expensive and neatly packaged. Simple to use.

- Would have prefereed Micrsoft operating system as never used the Linux before but so far it's not that diffrent!

+ Light weight, easy to use, excellent netbook compared to others ive tried

- none

+ Great little bit of kit and really fast to boot up etc

- no case with it

+ Fast and simple to use.

- Basic batter life.

+ its small and it nearly does everythink that a full size laptop does

- cant play dvds

+ its small, its fast, can do everything that a normal laptop can do. has lots of card slots for easily uploading your photos when on holiday etc. or for just making extra space if it needed.

- the messenger thing will only let you use AIM and none of the others suggested on the add form. you can not download any/many things e.g. msn messenger or team speak etc.

+ compact and lighweight. does almost everything a lap top does

- would benefit from built in modem for dial up and voice recognition software

+ Extremely fast startup time - usable in 15 seconds ! Pretty much all the applications you need come with the machine - no bloatware. One of the best gadgets i have ever had

- None

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- it is operated by linux and not windows and I had bought it as a present for my 12 tear old daughter who needed it for msn messanger and i coud not get it with this netbook

+ Really small but does everything a regular laptop does.

- Battery life is a bit short.

+ clear good screen

- not windows system

+ Very easy to set up & use

- My daughter couldn't get access to MSN we have now resolved this though

+ Portable and does the jon i bought it for.

- Screen is a bit small for easy reading

+ small compact

- did not have any variation of windows

+ This is more than just a Netbook but a small Laptop in my mind. I've replaced Linux which is supplied with this product (which greatly holds it back) and installed Windows. I've also bought a Freeview TV USB stick and use it in the car when I'm parked. It works very well and will easily run the TV software in the corner of the screen whilst browsing the internet using Firefox without the CPU maxing out. Overall its a good solid product and is recommended.

- The Linux version (Linpus) supplied with this Netbook is very very poor. This Linux version although very fast has been cut down too much from the 'Fedora' Linux version which it is based upon and is not able to log onto a wLan using 'Ad Hoc' mode without using command line to create the connection each time you want to connect. This means the Netbook using this version of Linux cannot easily be connected to a Mobile connection and thus defeats the object of buying this Netbook. You want to use it on the road! The solution is to ditch this Linux version and either install Windows or another Linux version. Both should fix this issue.

+ Very lite, quick anought. Big HDD for this baby.

- Memory expansition is an issue but 1Gb is fine for most aplications.
Spare 9Cell battery is a bit bigger then I expected.

+ Small and runs very smoothly even with Windows 7

- Touchpad is a bit fiddly

+ Its size makes it wonderfully portable. The bright screen is usually easy to see, even when the lighting conditions would usually make it difficult. It has enough processor power and memory to run most of the games and applications I could possibly want. Despite the computers small size the keyboard is still easy to use.

- The window manager! The window manager is terrible, it has been configured to try to be simple, and in doing so it has been thoroughly crippled. Even getting to customisation settings for more than the most basic things requires activating the options in the command line. The default file manager is abysmal, it pretends the folders on the expansion card are the same as the ones on the hard drive, which means if you use this file manager you never quite know where you've saved things until you take the card out and see what's missing. I installed Konqueror, and now use that for file management, and it is far better, although it never seems to know what to open a file with, and when you tell it to remember it goes through the motions, but doesn't actually remember. In short, I think it should be shipped with a standard Linux window manager, like Gnome, or my personal favourite KDE. Even having the option to switch to one of these would be a huge improvement.
I have only one problem with the hardware itself, and that is the power button, due to it's placement, it is impossible to tell whether it is on or off when the lid is closed, unless one of the other lights is on (e.g. caps lock). This could be easily remedied by having a second LED, separate from the power button, along the same row as the other indicators, just so the user can see what state it's in when closed.

+ Just what I was looking for

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+ Startup is quick, it's quite fast considering the small amount of memory. It was cheap.

- It overheats and shuts down occasionally

+ Its cheap and easy to use.

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+ light and easy to use, ideal for mobile access to the internet and email services

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+ Very easy, starts straight out of the box. Very fast. Ideal computer for internet and office programs

- Linux is not that easy in setting up a wireless network printer

+ easy to use.

- None noted.

+ Is small and light and ideal for a teenager to access the internet, she loves it! very good value for money as the cheapest laptop didn't come close.

- No CD drive (even though a troubleshooting/help CD is supplied with it ?) you can't download itunes as it is not compatiable!

+ quality,price and performance ideal for my daughter

- 0

+ small compact and does the job

- keyboard is not formatted correctly @ is not in place where indicated on keyboard

+ It is so easy to use, quick ans portable.

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+ Compact, nice size keyboard though. Light weight & very quick to boot up.

- The linux operating system is a bit daunting though after using Windows. A more comprehensive instruction book would have been better included to help "Linux necomers" a bit.

+ compact

- no dvd to insert discs not precise enough on product when purchasing

+ Small and light, Easy to operate.

- Very slow when playing games on the internet.

+ great value, easy to use.

- not windows, cant change home page

+ its compact and is great to use and carry about

- the ram is not enough and there is no way to increase it. I am very miffed about it and almost felt I had wasted my money.

+ very clear screen quick to connect to internet

- none

+ easy to use

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+ Mobile, compact, really easy to set up, clear screen

- Tricky mouse, quite fiddly to get used to

+ small / portable and easy to use

- memory - not enough / no windows?

+ mobile,compact laptop which is easy to use any where in the house.

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+ being so portable

- none

+ lightwieght,small size is easy access and easy to travel with, is well organised for working on,

- have to buy nessesary accessories seperate, short battery life, not enough resistance

+ compact andvery versatile

- none

+ size operating system

- keyboard layout -azerty

+ mobility design

- microphone

+ This product is excellent my husband was made redundant before Chrsitmas and has been attending interviews and took it to an interview to give a presentation I'm happy to say that he got the job and the interviewee was impressed with the notebook.

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+ compact and lightweight, but big enough keyboard aand screen to use easily.

- not compatible with windows so I can't download word documents.

+ Value for money. Large keyboard (relatively). Works well sat on your knee - balanced

- appears to freeze from time to time as system writes to SSD. Fan noisey.

+ very easy to set up size great internet access very quike great little machine

- only down side is battery life not very long need to be on power quite a bit

+ Good for internet and offie applications, simple to use for existing applications

- Not expandable, cannot easily add software

+ Light-weight construction, and use of LInux operating system

- With its solid state hard drive I had expected a less noisy machine. The fan is clearly audible (particularly as it vents just under the keyboard) and its frequency is such that it triggers the user's tinnitus