[BC] Acer Aspire

[Mark Croom]

One of my college-age sons passed his Toshiba 15" widescreen notebook off to
a friend and purchased one of the ASUS EEPC machines.

He is super-pleased with it and it just keeps on going for him. At my
recommendation he did buy a widescreen LCD for his desk-work. As an
accounting major, it's a big pain to deal with large spreadsheets on the
netbook screen, but the nice big desktop monitor makes it all tolerable. He
also bought a USB numeric keypad for entry and he's quite happy with the
combination.

Mark
MN

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Lotus Engineering <loteng at lvradio.com>wrote:

> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
>   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.
>