[BC] Acer Aspire

[Lotus Engineering]

The little ASUS netbooks are the latest in that style among many of our local hams, some of whom are IT pro's.  I bought one for my wife, who abuses it terribly and it's still going strong.  She's an invalid and uses it in bed with no air circulation, and often falls asleep on the keyboard.  It came with XP and does what she wants.  She uses an external USB trackball.  I bought an external USB CD/DVD reader/writer and it works just fine with it.  Cost was right around $300 at Target.  If I'd wanted Linux it would have been cheaper.
Bill

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 [mailto:broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net] From: Barry Mishkind

I don't know if this is still timely or not, but I ran into another 
shopper today at Best Buy, near the netbooks.

He said he has been through TWO Acer Aspires that failed. One had a 
motherboard "burn" ... the other just stopped working.

He recommended I stay away from Acer ... but then that is just a 
chance encounter in the store.

At 05:39 AM 6/27/2009, Dave Dunsmoor wrote:
>Thanks to all who offered opinions on the Acer notebook, I'm going out this
>weekend to see what I can find. Was initially a bit unsure of the usability

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