10.1" owners, introduce yourselves

As much as I like this user forum, there are just to many sub-forums here to really get to know anybody.

So I've decided to hangout in this sub-forum only, the Board index ‹ Technical Advice / Support ‹ Acer Aspire One 10"

So let me introduce myself. My name is Barry and I live in Acworth, GA, USA, which is a suburb of Atlanta

I've done I.T. work all my working career, starting as a depot tech with Data General in 1978

I own Macs, Windows Servers, and other XP and Vista desktops and laptops and this fantastic Aspire One 10" that I bought from Costco in March.

I put more keyboard time on the Aspire One than all my other computers combined now. I have it running stock XP Home, with 2 GB of RAM, and Windows Steadystate. The drive is partitioned in to a C: and D: drive. With Steadystate I NEVER worry about viruses and such messing things up. I still run AVG 8.5 in the background, but it realy not required.

So tell us a little about yourself and your Aspire.

 

Good idea Barry.

My name is Don. I have been working with computers since 1974. I have had a career in electronics and spent 15 years working for the Department of the Navy of the USA as Technical Representative.

I am currently retired. I am finally down to just 6 working computers running XP, Vista, Mandriva, Mepis and Ubuntu some machines are multi-boot machines.

I have an AA1 8.9 inch with an 8Gb SSD and an AA1 10.1 inch with a 160Gb HD upgraded to 2Gb of RAM. the 10.1 inch is dual booting XP and Mandriva 2009.1 Spring. I find the 10.1 inch AA1 to have the best styling and screen of all by far.

I don't use XP much but I use AVG for the anti-virus program. I find Mandriva 2009.1 to give me all the functionality I could want without the risk associated with XP. Also Mandriva did not need and modifications to make things work so far for me.

BTW I currently hail from central TX.

 

Well I'll chime in too

I am Mike, 20 and just finished my Junior year of college for Network Administration.

I bought the Aspire One back in March because I got tired of my overly powerful laptops that aren't so portable. Current laptop count is 4 (one for sale and one broken) and current desktop count is 3. Ugh need to sell. This laptop was supposed to be just to carry to class but I ended up using it for routing/switching projects along with Linux projects. I quickly found out that the Atom 1.6 can run virtual machines and edit video. Cool.

Since my summer break started, I haven't even used the other laptops.

I've had computers since 2001 and this is my second new computer. Usually I buy used but the AAO was cheap enough new.

 

Hi,

My name is Bill and I live in Naples, FL (NaplesBill ). I am an IT Director and I've been employed in IT/IS since 1991.

I just picked up the new AOD250 a few days ago. I initially bought it and planned on returning it. I had to send my laptop in for repair (fan noise) and picked it up to use until I get my laptop back. Well, I am now planning on keeping it. I will likely sell my laptop and just use my work laptop if I need a more powerful portable. I also have two desktop machines at my house. I really like this machine and I am very impressed overall. I loaded Windows 7 RC1 and it works beautifully. I am currently experimenting with OSX but it is a bit tempermental on this guy.

 

Hi all, Jerry here.

I've been living the past 15+ years in Vegas, moved around in the military before that (both as a brat, and a soldier), born in Texas. I first started working with computers in '79, built my first 2k Timex Sinclair 1000 a couple years later, and have kept building PC's on the side since. I attended UT before military and KU after. I'm currently the network admin for a small local Las Vegas company.

I bought my D150 in March, with plans of removing the screen and using a portable external screen with remote desktop apps so as to create a pretty powerful controller. Fell in love with it the first few days I had it, so this one will not become a controller, but I still plan on using a netbook for a controller (without a screen, solar can run this thing all day long, even the wireless).

I currently own 4 desktops, 2 XP SP3, 1 W7 dual booting Beta and RC1, and 1 dual booting 98SE / Linux (flavor of the month), one laptop running XP, and my D150 dual booting XP SP3 and W7 RC. Away from work, I use my D150 the most.

 

My first computer was a TS1000. Way to cool. Thermal printer and 300 baud modem too. I signed up with Compuserve when it was all text based and way to expensive.

So happy to meet all of you guys.

Barry

 

How about the 5k memory expansion module? I wrote my own version of Donkey Kong's 1st level in it's unique form of Basic, remember the fn+key for complete Basic terms? The TS1000 was pretty much the same size as the D150, maybe a bit bigger.

Ahhh, storing data/programs on casettes tapes and a TV for a monitor, those were the days!

 

Hello members of AAOUF. My name is Ben and I live in Hampton, VA, USA.

I'm and Active Duty member of the United States Air Force, stationed here at Langley, AFB with my wife Aspen who is also Active Duty.

I work in the Cisco router, switch, load balancer, and ASA VPN world right now for the USAF. I have been in the networking field now for 5 years. Before that I was a Crew Chief on Combat Talon II MC-130H down in Florida for 6 yrs.

I just bought my AAO D150 from Woot! on 9 Jul for $264 shipped. I just joined the forum and its not even here yet! My 2gb memory did arrive yesterday though. This is my first netbook and first new laptop since 2004 (emachines M6809, still running like a champ but no battery life at all). So I am looking forward to learning from you and hacking up my new AAOD150. :mrgreen:

Edit: link to my purchase...http://www.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=8680

 

My name is Aaron, I'm a service support representative for a large document messaging company. I'm A+ certified and have degrees in micro-processing and electronic engineering.

I've wanted an AOD150 since I first saw them announced, I'm very much a gadget head and I love how tiny and portable it is. Plus it seems damn peppy for such a small notebook.

Right now I plan on upgrading the hard drive to 500gb and sticking 2gb of ram in it and I should be good to go.

I'm very satisfied with my little netbook so far, it's my primary computer now!

 

I'm Jeff, New today to the board. Picked up my 10.1" from Amazon a couple of moths ago. Got a ruby red one with a 6-cell battery. So far pretty happy with it. I bought this primarily to more easily pack in on my Motorcycle when I'm on tour. Makes posting photos and keeping in touch (wife worries) a lot easier. The only thing I wish my netbook had was Bluetooth for tethering to my phone when I can't get WiFi access.

 

Hi Jeff, I just got my 2009 Burgman 400 and I am working through the break in period so I can make some nice long runs and plan to take my AA1 red D150 for the same reasons. Are you thinking of running your AA1 while you ride to track where you've been?

 

Hi, My name is Mario and I'm from Durango, México. I'm studying at University, in Graphic Design. I have a desktop computer at home, that's the one I use for my graphic design programs. I've bought my Aspire D250 (the black model) in July, I was looking for a laptop, but I choose the AAO instead, I've had two laptops in the past and they were definitely too heavy to carry on for the school. I Use my AAO for writting, web surffing, to play video and sometimes, since I've upgraded the ram to 2GB to edit little stuffs on photoshop, illustrator and flash. I also bought a small logictech mouse and and external LG dvdrw, but I hardly ever use these. The only thing I don't like about my AAO is the lack of a tv-out port, I had to buy a rgb-composite converter on ebay to solve this. :lol:

 

Hi, I'm Ant from England. I bought my 10.1" 531(ZG8) with a 6 cell battery last year. It spent a month out of action after an incident with red wine meant I had to replace the screen (there goes the warranty) I also have an acer T180 (Vista/Ubuntu) desktop and a Mac G5 that I use for my work as a designer. I intend to dual boot my acer netbook 10.1" with XP/Ubuntu but I am waiting for the official release of Lucid as the release date is now so close.

I am very happy with my acer netbook (so far) and have found this forum an informative and useful resource and have enjoyed reading users posts and replies, so I thought I'd join and make the most of it.

 

Im Hartley, 28 from Florida, USA.
Been in IT professionally for about 11 years. Currently a Network Administrator. First computers: a TRS-80, and a C-64. First IBM-PC was a 486 Enhanced.

My 10.1" is the D250. N270, 2GB ram, 160gb hdd, and a Broadcom Crystal HD card. With the Broadcom card, HD flash playback is awesome, and with it, I have lost the only complaint I had with netbooks. Crappy Flash playback. Hopefully with everyone pushing for HTML5, this wont be an issue for too much longer.

This is the best sub-forum, btw. This and the hardware hacking forum. My D250 will be a tablet once I replace it in another year or two.

 

I am a 62 year old, Registered Architect in the US ... that uses Linux and Open Source exclusively for both work and home.
I bought my first PC from Radio Shack in 1984.
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My new 10.1" AAO Netbook came in today. I ordered it about 4-5 days ago.
I've spent the last hour or so playing with it. This is for 'playing' not for work.

It was supposed to have Windows 7 Home Premium edition ... instead, it has Windows XP Service Pack 3.
I was a little bummed about that, just cause I wanted to see what all the 'hoopla' was about with W7.

First thing I did was download DebianLive 5.0.4 to Unetbootin ... and changed the Netbooks BIOS for USB boot-up.
Debian opened up as a LiveUSB ... I've been playing with it. I'm very pleased.
I installed Debian in a dual-boot with XP.

So far ... everything in DebianLive works "out of the box".
Wireless ... Wifi ... Webcam ... everything.

I'll keep ya'll updated on my 10.1" Acer Aspire One netbook and Linux adventures.

 

WOW! Sure are a lot of old school, experienced people around here. Hello everyone, my name is Victor, I'm 19, not really the tech savvy person, although I can do some pretty complex computer things when given a step by step guide. Anyway, I just picked up an Acer AAO d260 from BestBuy Toronto today, the one with 1gb of ram, 160gb hdd,and win xp. I say this because there seem to be like a dozen of different d260s out there :?
Anyway, the widows xp it came with was full of crapware, and restrictions which didn't even allow me to play my favorite game called Ragnarok, was giving me errors left and right when I tried to to anything. So I've been trying to install Windows XP Black edition, and I have to say, Acer really makes things more complicated than other companies.

 

Hi,
Let me introduce myself, I'm Mike and I started with a Commodore Vic-20 in 1983. I love to hack computers. By the time I sold the unit it had a 32 column screen vs. a 23 column screen that was the standard (I think I remembered the correct column count), a floppy drive (back when a floppy was really a floppy) instead of a tape drive. The disks were 8 inches and measured Kilobytes not Megabytes or Gigabytes. I was able to use a "green screen" monitor vs. a TV. I did other hacks but I can't recall them right now. I went to a Commodore 64 then to an IBM clone and continued to many other units as the technology improved. Today I built 5 desktops again keeping pace with technology as it improved. So now I have 5 desktops 2 Dells and 3 that I've built. I like to work with large Video and audio media files and needed to upgrade to faster machines with more memory, So now I 'm on my third netbook and just love this format. Even with 5 desktops I spend more keyboard time with my netbook.

Another consideration that was important to me was weight. Due to some health problems I'm only allowed to carry or lift up to 8 pounds.

I live in the suburbs of Montreal and work for a local English television station. I work in the creative side of things and not the technical, most people find that an odd mixture of talents. I guess right side vs left side of the brain.

Now I have an Acer D255e, it's nice to have the 10.1" screen. I use it for email and surfing the net. I've used it to maintain two websites, my twitter page and a blog, all on antique watches and clocks.

I hope I wasn't too long winded.
Mike

 

Welcome Mike,

Your history sounds so much like mine but your current position is like nothing I have had as I went into the technical side of electronics but kept my hand in building computer etc. until I retired and then went mobile for the most part. My wife and I now have 2 desktops, 2 laptops and 3 netbooks of which we we use the laptops most and then the netbooks.

 

Well, Howdy I'm Douglas, 69th year, mountain horsepacker, guide, surveyor, Ecosystem classification analyst, storyteller. Well, grandfather, and old batchelor as wellMy first computer was a Borland 286 one of the first hinged laptops, running DOS 3 ish. My shell was the command line, then PC tools, then I lucked on to Geoworks which was better than the first Windows right up to Win 3.1 for workgroups. I ran it on 3 truck batteries powered by 1 solar panel. I still use the 3D DOS spreadsheet by FormalSoft - QubeCalc 3.01 from back then, i haven't found a modern one that does the same tricks. Well, theres a lot of that going around.I ran through 386's, 486's, PIII's, I have five of the latter right now , all run a honed down, firewalled, dial up connected, 98 smokered , ta da ! ! ! ! ! windows 98SE. So does the Toshiba, Techra 8000, i didn't like the win 2000 that was on it. No viri, or malware for years now. NO java scripts allowed either. Oh, and the default dial up connection is a phony, that catches some of the slickest programers with their pants down once in a while. So I bought 2 bright shiny Red AA1-D250's, for $410 CDN taxes and all, a real deal. Through my late wifes 3 year illness and finally death these have stayed right in their box til just recently. The batteries have been cycled every three months to their low bat warning, then topped right up, taken down to 60% and stored in the refrigerator. So these AA1's are like new. Well, sans crapware.What am I gonna do with them now that i'm getting some of my juice back? I would like to load maybe Lubuntu, Knoppix, and, or Crunchbang, on one of the AA1-D250's and use it as a Linux firewall to the Web to protect my XP's, and 98SE's. I would like to learn Linux CLI like the back of my hand like the good old DOS *.bat file days, it would keep me busy, also all the Knoppix probing, and rescue apps would be good to keep my mind goin. Any of the writing, or other work that I do is probably better done on my better known windows tools. I can just imagine the headaches trying to port the writing tools "Scrivener", or Sommestadts " Literary Machine" to any of the *nix's. Any of the P III's will make good networked storage, backup machines, and one I want as a Web server just for me at present, I have about 600 pages of Ecosystem classification field notes I want to put in website form. I will unleash it on the world some day, but it's going to be a job fitting those pages in to the 78'ish subcategories of form, function, time, and, gulp, the negentropicsThe other Acer aspire D-250, I think i'd like to Install a GPS receiver maybe GPSgate, and scan a Bathymetric chart into it for the big lake i live on (south central BC). Use it for taking GPS localised field notes on the huge fish I catch as I cruise along in my electric powered canoe, back and forth to the beer store 10 miles up lake.So I am on page 29 out of 274 in my journey to find out all that is known about these little buggars. I am utterly amazed at the mass of good solid information you fine folks have accumulated over the years Though I am sure late to this lunch. I intend to finish the book as it were, take notes as I go,.... and live a happy life. Oh say, I'm getting a new plastic eyeball next thursday, doesn't that beat all?thanks for all you have done, you all..