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Can anyone help me please?
I am not very PC aware and my daughter has insisted on a wee Acer netbook from santa but I`m confused with the Rams and gigas etc there are 2 i am thinking of, the ;Acer Aspire One A150-Ab Netbook, Linpus Linux Lite version, 1GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB HD for £219or the
Acer Aspire One A110-Ab Netbook, Linpus Linux Lite version, 512MB DDR2 RAM, 8GB NAND Flash (Sapphire Blue) for £179
I don`t know what the different GBs means so is the £40 more worth paying?

Thanks in advance.

She`ll run out of that 8GB on the cheaper model very quickly, 120GB is what some full-size laptops have. Well worth the extra £40.




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Your going to hate this, theres another couple of higher spec`ed Acer Aspire Ones in the pipeline in

Pink.
Pink & White.
Brown.

They are going to be available from 1st December from the Play website

Acer Aspire One A150-Ab Netbook, Linpus Linux Lite version, 1GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB HD for £219

This one has 1Gb of RAM = 512Mb on-board & 512Mb in the expansion slot & a conventional HDD running the Linux OS.

Acer Aspire One A110-Ab Netbook, Linpus Linux Lite version, 512MB DDR2 RAM, 8GB NAND Flash.

This one has purely the 512Mb on-board & the expansion slot is left empty, you can upgrade this with a 1Gb SoDIMM to 1.5Gb, but it`s not a straight forward upgrade as the machine needs to be virtually dismantled to get to the memory slot (Acer didnt put a handy access panel in the case for a simple upgrade).

The HDD on this one is a solid state drive, with no physical moving parts hence the reduced capacity & IIRC has a slower performance than the one with the conventional HDD.

On balence as xfg states I would pay the extra money, but the AA1 has a trick up it`s sleeve in that it has two SDHC memory slots & one of them can be dedicated to boost the 8Gb solid state drive a cheap upgrade in itself.

From The Registers review.

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A feature currently unique to the AA1 is the seamless storage expansion. Shoving a £20 Class 2 8GB SDHC into second memory card slot we mentioned before resulted in the system telling us we now had 11GB of storage from a potential maximum of 14GB, up from 3.4GB out of 6.4GB. In case you`re wondering where the missing storage is, it`s the One`s 1GB Swap partition.

Acer states that the expansion slot is only good for cards of up to 8GB but we found that a 16GB card also worked with no problems. This being the case, there`s no good reason why 32GB cards should not also do the job when they become generally available.

Whatever card you add, the One integrates its capacity seamlessly with the main SSD as if they were one. This is a far better approach than treating the SD card as a separate storage space. You can do that too, thanks to the other SD card slot, and at least with the AA1, you can up your storage capacity without losing the ability to slot in the memory card out of your camera.

I have a similar dilemma to you, insofar that I need two (one in blue\one in pink), torn between base memory models, the prospect of stripping two new netbooks even with net guides is a bit daunting even to me who is quite used to laptop motherboard swapouts & torn by the choice of OS\HDD combination.

Sod it - I went for two Acer Aspire One A150-A* / Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz / 1GB / 160GB / 8.9" / Linux / NetBook in blue & pink, that`s the kids sorted out.




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This item was edited on Saturday, 15th November 2008, 18:13