Acer Netbook £150.00 Asda Instore

bobby9205

1carminestocky wrote: »

I bet you're a bundle of fun. :rolleyes:

My thoughts exactly - bet the long winter nights fly by in there (or is it their or is it I really dont give a toss?) house :rotfl:

boatman

The £99 Elonex ONEt which i got is not nearly as good as the Acer, don't bother, pay the extra and get the Acer. Been there, done that!!

surfsister

is this acer available at asda online as my store run out? The guy instore said it was but I can't find it. Any ideas?

Browntoa

it's on there at £198 but out of stock

surfsister

TehJumpingJawa wrote: »

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

Where are they please?

pepperwhitemini

Wow - been a member on here for ages and this this thread has finally made me want to start posting. Got mine yesterday, had a play around with it and noticed a few things:

1. It seems to scroll very slowly on some web pages if you scroll using the side bar.
2. Video but no sound from the web cam. I called up Acer support and the guy there said it's not a fault - that's how it's been set-up. :huh:

That aside everything else seems ok - only using it for web really.

One good thing though - it powers up very quickly and I inserted my Orange USB225 modem to see if it would work and it loaded up in record time - I can now also surf via that as well as wireless.

TBH I have really been looking to get the Samsung NC10 - however at this price the Acer is pretty good value.

star1_2

I took the plunge tonight and installed XP on mine, it seams to be running fairly well with only 512k of memory - although its my intention to upgrade +1gb. All the apps i've installed and devices seam to work without issue, including Vodaphone USB 3G modem etc. I miss the supper-fast boot-up time of Linux, back to the windows norm !!

I have a couple of questions

(a) - (which I think also applys to Linus users too) - if anyone can help .... when your using an application and a window is displayed that "hangs off the bottom of the screen" how do you scroll down to the base of it (there is no scoll edge to it - before anyone suggests that!), the small screen size stops them showing correctly.

(b) - i've installed windows, but it thinks I have an american US keyboard @ and " swapped over, i've tried the regeional settings in Control pannel, but no luck ....

Any thoughts gratefully received ....

TehJumpingJawa

star1 wrote: »

(b) - i've installed windows, but it thinks I have an american US keyboard @ and " swapped over, i've tried the regeional settings in Control pannel, but no luck ....

Here you go(ogle):
http://www.conversationexchange.com/resources/keyboard-language.php#xp

bcwc

star1 wrote: »

I took the plunge tonight and installed XP on mine, it seams to be running fairly well with only 512k of memory - although its my intention to upgrade +1gb. All the apps i've installed and devices seam to work without issue, including Vodaphone USB 3G modem etc. I miss the supper-fast boot-up time of Linux, back to the windows norm !!

I have a couple of questions

(a) - (which I think also applys to Linus users too) - if anyone can help .... when your using an application and a window is displayed that "hangs off the bottom of the screen" how do you scroll down to the base of it (there is no scoll edge to it - before anyone suggests that!), the small screen size stops them showing correctly.

(b) - i've installed windows, but it thinks I have an american US keyboard @ and " swapped over, i've tried the regeional settings in Control pannel, but no luck ....

Any thoughts gratefully received ....

Hi,

a) Try installing this little gem of a tool:
http://nodadev.wordpress.com/pc-projects/a1ctl/
Once you've done that you'll be able to set the screen to a virtual 1024x768. In addition you be able to; stop clicking on hard disk, throttle your CPU to half speed when running on battery, start and stop your fan at different temps, and stop devices to save on battery usage.

b) Assuming you have the UK keyboard installed, just press 'Left Alt + Shift' to toggle between keyboard languages. If you haven't got the UK keyboard installed you'll need to add it via the Control Panel->Regional Language and Options->Languages->Details...->Settings->Add...
You may need the XP installation disk for this.

Cheers,

Bri.

g_p_t

seth wrote: »

Anyone got DivX Playback working under Linpus ?

Got firefox3 and OpenOffice3 installed and Skype not sure how to get DivX playing tried the usually links no luck ;(

I set up the repos etc but no luck

Install VLC player and it will play Divx / xvids perfectly