A relative of mine recently bought a new atom powered Acer aspire one notebook and showed me the unit today.
Not an impressive start, ran like an absolute dog.
I checked the CPU and memory usage, all fine. That inferred that it was the harddrive causing the bottleneck, so plugged in an external USB drive. Sure enough, the external drive was fine.
In short, any reading or writing from the SSD drive is truly abysmal.
Is this normal for Acer SSD notebooks, or do you think that this one is just feeling a little unwell?
Have to say that apart from the drive issue and lack of DVI or HDMI port, looks like a nice unit and would probably be great for net surfing and hosting of Slimserver. Infact I'm so impressed that I'm thinking of buying a Dell 1010 which does have HDMI output. Just want to know whether I go with a unit with SSD or with a 2.5" drive.
Not an impressive start, ran like an absolute dog.
I checked the CPU and memory usage, all fine. That inferred that it was the harddrive causing the bottleneck, so plugged in an external USB drive. Sure enough, the external drive was fine.
In short, any reading or writing from the SSD drive is truly abysmal.
Is this normal for Acer SSD notebooks, or do you think that this one is just feeling a little unwell?
Have to say that apart from the drive issue and lack of DVI or HDMI port, looks like a nice unit and would probably be great for net surfing and hosting of Slimserver. Infact I'm so impressed that I'm thinking of buying a Dell 1010 which does have HDMI output. Just want to know whether I go with a unit with SSD or with a 2.5" drive.