Acer Aspire One or Asus Eee PC 901

allosunshine · 12 Oct 2008 at 16:15

I'm thinking of getting a Netbook and I've narrowed it down to the Aspire One or Eee PC 901.
I'm not too bothered about HDD space as I've got everything on an external HDD anyway. I like the Eee PC as it has Wireless N but I also like the Asipre as it has 3g built in.
What do you all think??

Tomsk · 12 Oct 2008 at 17:14

The Aspire One does NOT have 3G built in.
There is space for a module, and newer models *may* have it.

allosunshine · 12 Oct 2008 at 17:16

Tomsk said:
The Aspire One does NOT have 3G built in.
There is space for a module, and newer models *may* have it.

Ok fair enough the Eee PC 901 it is then. That was easy.

Tomsk · 12 Oct 2008 at 17:19

TBH even if the Acer One did have 3G built in, it would be a pain to use since the SIM card slot can only be accessed by removing the battery.
The inconvenience of using 3G on it (and any other laptop IMO) is having to remove the SIM from your phone, which can be even more inconvenienced if the phone's SIM card is buried behind the battery.
Unless you have an extra SIM card.

allosunshine · 12 Oct 2008 at 17:22

I've got a Three 3g Dongle and the Sim card is sepearte so it could easily be put into the netbook and forgotten about.

mikeossy · 12 Oct 2008 at 18:37

Surely just plugging your dongle in would do the job?.
I have the Acer so im a little biased, but have you seen these two together, the Acer looks so much classier!

allosunshine · 12 Oct 2008 at 19:12

mikeossy said:
Surely just plugging your dongle in would do the job?.
I have the Acer so im a little biased, but have you seen these two together, the Acer looks so much classier!

Yeah sure pluggin in the dongle does the job but wouldn't be even easier not having to get the dongle out and connect it up and having a dongle sticking out than just putting the sim into the Netbook, not worrying about it and just clicking a an icon, no external connections and nothing sticking out.