I have an Acer Aspire One, AOA 110.
It’s a VERY cheap machine, I got it from a department store for 150 euros. It’s an ATOM based netbook, 8.9 inch screen, solid state storage (8 gigs), and makes a decent machine for typing or surfing on the go. Definitely smaller and lighter than my 1st Gen Macbook, that, at the time I bought the Acer, was my primary machine.
It comes with 512 MB of ram, which is not enough for running…well, pretty much anything these days.
It also comes with a preinstalled fugly linux distribution for netbooks (Linpus, which sole name reminds me of some kind of infection), that I got rid of, roughly 10 minutes after unboxing.
My sister has a twin netbook, and she tried running windows XP, that came in a USB stick, included in the price. Unusable. She now uses Linux Mint and frequently complains about the slugginess, but for updating Facebook and writing emails, it serves its purpose.
I had a 512 MB memory stick lying around and I decided to upgrade mine (Running Ubuntu) to at least 1 GB.
I’m not going to bother you with more words. Look at this video to see what I had to go through.
I wished I were a surgeon, so, by the time the new RAM was in, I could have just ordered my freshman assistant to “close him (it..) up”.
I finished the job sparing some 10 screws that were completely unnecessary (but they’ll prove to be VITAL the next time I’ll drop the computer).
The netbook now runs ok, and I’m pretty amazed than it still works.
I just want to point out that freaking APPLE, made the fracking RAM a frigging USER SERVICEABLE PART. Apple. And I had to go through 1,5 hours of pain and a youtube video to expand my RAM.
Why? All Acer had to do was putting a gorram DRAWER on the bottom.
Stay tuned, more to come.