Acer Netbook £150.00 Asda Instore

s30jok

I am very tempted to get one of these but will hold out for the Aldi one, if its any consolation Asda Grantham has loads left of them, i rang up shortly and the girl said there is loads out the back. you have to ask at the entertainment desk about them tho

hope this helps someone

seth

*max* wrote: »

Hi again!

I have been "playing" around with my new netbook, but I'm having a problem with downloading programs to it. For example, I downloaded Songbird to it (Itunes equivalent for Linux). But I can't find it in the programs list in the packet manager. When I click on the file in the downloads category of the file manager, there is an "extract" button (which I assume I have to do as it's a ZIP file). When I click on extract, it stops after a couple of seconds and says "an error occurred while accessing the archive".

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

I had the same problem this is what I did

• Download the software
• Select the option to extract the files and select the download directory was the place to put the extracted files
• Then in the ACER Start page select Files, My Documents, and select the download folder
• In the download folder you will see the installer script, just double click to run this

FYI I've switched on the 3D desktop (Compiz) and got this working on the Acer One. This provides fancy graphics, translucent windows and etc just search YouTube for some examples http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=t1JCS6UBcyQ)

All seems to work really well.

It is worth updating your software before anything else. I clicked Setting, Update and all the updates installed. I also upgraded to Firefox3 from the stock Firefox2 this was via the installer on the Acer EU site.

Very please with this little PC and excellent purchase. Thanks OP!

When I went to ASDA there were none on display. I asked the saleperson on electricals and she got one from the stock room.

The BIOS etc is visible on a label on the side of the unit. Check the BIOS version to make sure you get the 160GB if you can as the price is the same. I forgot to note the BIOS version but phoned a friend to check I had the right model.

Hope this helps.

sickboyedd

Just a note that these are still in stock in my parents ASDA near Hull, apparently there's a big price sticker of £198 but there is a reduced to £150 if you look.... 20 left after they got one....:beer:

TimeToSetUpHome

s30jok wrote: »

I am very tempted to get one of these but will hold out for the Aldi one, if its any consolation Asda Grantham has loads left of them, i rang up shortly and the girl said there is loads out the back. you have to ask at the entertainment desk about them tho

hope this helps someone

What's the Aldi offer?

Saint_Chris

will hold out for the Aldi one,

anyone any idea what this one will be, and roughly how much

also i'm getting the hang of this now, but i love my favourites, and where do i store them on here

thanks

Browntoa

think they mean

http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/58_8630.htm

Saint_Chris

thanks was just looking at that, but it's way out of my price range.

*max*

"I had the same problem this is what I did

• Download the software
• Select the option to extract the files and select the download directory was the place to put the extracted files
• Then in the ACER Start page select Files, My Documents, and select the download folder
• In the download folder you will see the installer script, just double click to run this"

Thank you! But it's still not working. I've downloaded Firefox 3 as well, and I can see the script file, but I can't open it. Double-click has no effect, and "open with Installpatch" comes up with " Update does not available" (sic)...

TehJumpingJawa

Browntoa wrote: »

think they mean

http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/58_8630.htm

I wouldn't get too upset, that isn't a particularly special deal.
There's better deals to be had elsewhere.

barginunter

Santa brought me one of these
https://www.medionshop.co.uk/?areaID=48878EF43BA0717CE10000000A00007F&productID=48878EF43BA0717CE10000000A00007F4808ECBB6FF20324E10000000A00005C&shoplanguage=en

It's fab.