The Acer ONE Thread

vintage-x · 23 Feb 2009 at 14:28

Well after a few weeks of having windows 7 installed I decided to wipe the netbook and put win xp on there using my xbox360 hd-dvd drive.

Windows 7 did run but it wasn`t as fast at doing things as I would have liked and the wi-fi had a habit of switching off randomly which took a couple of resets to get running again which was starting to become very annoying.

I defently think it would be faster if I upgraded the ram but TBH Xp runs like a dream on the base spec and even though its not as pretty it still works and besides when I get my job as an IT tech the company I will be working for uses XP so its easer for me to trouble shoot if I get a call at home and I have somthing with XP installed on it.

sanaxe1 · 16 Mar 2009 at 18:09

Hey , my 360 HD-DVD isn't being picked up by my acer-one

Bios / booting crashes if its plugged in. I need Windows on aghhhh

nikebee · 25 Mar 2009 at 09:44

Silly little issue here, and I can't seem to find the option to stop it from happening.

When watching a video on Youtube or iPlayer (for example) the laptop screen will go black and turn off (like a power saving option) meaning you have to press a button on the keyboard or move the cursor.

Is there anything I can do to turn this off?

wolvers · 25 Mar 2009 at 12:59

Hello Aspire One owners.

I'm thinking about getting the AOA150-Ab model and I was wondering if someone could give me an idea about how long the battery would last? Its the 1gb/120gb/linux model.

Also will it play standard def AVI's ok?

Thanks

vintage-x · 25 Mar 2009 at 14:48

englishpremier said:
Ok just to let you know. Following the steps here fixed my problem. I will now keep a usb stick handy with the latest bios on. Good luck.

http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/08/acer-aspire-one-bios-recovery.html

yeah that method worked for my problem as well thank god

POB · 26 Mar 2009 at 13:09

wolvers69 said:
Hello Aspire One owners.

I'm thinking about getting the AOA150-Ab model and I was wondering if someone could give me an idea about how long the battery would last? Its the 1gb/120gb/linux model.

Also will it play standard def AVI's ok?

Thanks

Will play AVI's with no issues.

Battery about 2 hours

But after owning an Acer One, I would not buy one, the Fan noise is terrible.

There is an application to adjust the settings but then the unit gets hot.

The Dell mini 9 is silent.

Unless the Acer is very cheap avoid it, there is better on the market now.

datawrite · 29 Mar 2009 at 00:59

I would love an Acer One but just can't afford one yet!!

pumaz · 29 Mar 2009 at 11:03

I've had two AA1's and the first one (Blue,SSD) fan was more than just audible, 2nd and current AA1 (White, 120GB HD) the fan is near silent.

If you already have an Acer there's really no point in upgrading till a new chipset etc. comes out but if your looking to buy your first netbook and can afford/justify the Samsung NC10 then thats the one to go for. But there is no performance advantage over the Acer it's just more refined and the battery lasts longer

Ol!ver · 3 Apr 2009 at 20:50

I have a printer question:

My Mum's wanting to get a WiFi printer for using with the Acer ONE, but I've no experience with WiFi printers. Will any printer work with the ONE running linux? I'm not sure how the driver situation will work with it being WiFi.

Cheers

Snow-Munki · 25 Apr 2009 at 21:51

Hi,

just picked one up today and put XP on it. Got the 120gb one.

Anyway transferring files over the network is REALLY slow, I mean 300 megs will take over an hour. Been playing with different network drivers but with no luck, just wondering what drivers you guys are using?

datawrite · 26 Apr 2009 at 16:15

Dell mini 9. Is it available with a Hard Drive rather than SSD?

Tomsk · 26 Apr 2009 at 17:27

datawrite said:
Dell mini 9. Is it available with a Hard Drive rather than SSD?

This is a thread for the Acer One. I think there's a Dell mini thread somewhere.

datawrite · 26 Apr 2009 at 19:48

ooops!

Fonz-Valo · 27 Apr 2009 at 12:37

I've just recently purchased a A150 for £129 and i'm loving it.

The only problem i have is the keyboard is very bouncy as if it isn't secured properly and this is making me very cautious when typing on it. Is this normal on the Acer One netbooks?

datawrite · 27 Apr 2009 at 12:50

Where did you get it? (As long as not a direct competitior to OcUK)

Fonz-Valo · 27 Apr 2009 at 15:32

sorry i can't really say as they are technically a competitor sorry

On another note i've fixed the bouncy keyboard. It was never secured in correctly so i just firmly pushed the top of the keyboard till it clipped in securely

JIM_BOB7813 · 28 Apr 2009 at 08:54

They are (were?) available for £99 and £130 at a supermarket, just search hukd. ^^

datawrite · 28 Apr 2009 at 15:25

Seen that, but my local did not have them at that price!

tripitaka · 28 Apr 2009 at 16:31

http://zflashpoint.blogspot.com/

I'll be trying this when I get home - sounds like it resolves a lot of the problems with bad write speeds on the SSD machines - basically caches the small writes to RAM and writes in one go by the sound of it.

GingaNinja · 28 Apr 2009 at 19:12

tripitaka said:
http://zflashpoint.blogspot.com/

I'll be trying this when I get home - sounds like it resolves a lot of the problems with bad write speeds on the SSD machines - basically caches the small writes to RAM and writes in one go by the sound of it.

This is an excellent mod. There are other ways of achieving the same thing, but they are more invasive. Flashpoint makes my Acer One faster and more responsive. Other than those benefits, I wouldn't know it was installed.

Ginga