It’s been 13 years since I bought a whole computer for myself. But today I put in my order for an Acer Aspire One netbook, which is very exciting. Sadly, in order to pay for it, I am selling on the Nokia N800 that I won at LugRadio Live 2007, which I do with some sadness, but it is at least going on to a good home at another former LugRadio Community Hero.
So, why the change. Well, I’d been thinking about Netbooks since Asus brought out the Eee pc – I love the balance between portability and power. While my N800 has bags of power for it’s size, and was definitely portable, it basically got relegated to being an audio media player, with the odd bit of video, and playing Aisleriot (and Flight of the Amazon Queen on SCUMMVM when I first got it). Certainly the screen is lovely for video, and it fulfilled it’s function wonderfully. If I didn’t need the cash to fund the netbook, I’d keep it….
Instead, however, my media player functions will move to my phone, and the netbook will become the place for watching video and playing games. In addition, I’m hoping to use the netbook as a calendar/diary, which the N800 wasn’t ideal for (although GPE Calendar twinned with Erminig to sync with google was not bad), plus take on some additional functions that I would normally use my laptop for, like running OpenOffice.org and GnomeSword (now apparently called Xiphos, but not yet in Ubuntu…).
According to Parcelforce, it’s out for delivery today, so hopefully my next post will be done via the netbook 
mrBen
Dabs.com were selling refurb acer aspires for 100 quid with Linux the other day … Probably not what you want to hear right now!!
Can’t see any there at the moment… this one (at least according to the site) isn’t actually a refurb, but one that was in a damaged box. We’ll see when it arrives….
It was .. http://www.dabs.com/products/acer-refurb-aspire-0ne-a110-ab-atom-n270-512gb-8gb-ssd-linux-8-9–blue-5HW5.html
“All gone”
Ah yes. Probably wouldn’t want the SSD model (it’s apparently dog slow) and definitely didn’t want a 512MB version – to get new memory in you basically have to dismantle the entire unit…. although £100 would’ve been tempting. Still – am happy with my new tech so far
Totally agree; the ssd is slow and fittig memory is not straight forward – you do effectively disassemble the entire thing. Not for the feint of heart
I am also moving on from my N800, to the N900! Instead of carrying 3 things around(N800, N95 and the Satnav Kit+associated chargers and gumphery)I can just take the one. It really looks like it will be the device to take Maemo to the ‘Mainstream’ audience.