Acer Aspire One £129 in Tesco - but in Northern Ireland?

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The Aspire one is a great little laptop but Acer dropped the ball somewhat with its choice of linpus lite. It's a very poor version of linux to use and many users will find it too limiting.

however there is an answer to this without installing XP

ubuntu 9.04 released in April works very nicely on the aspire one. you can install it in either by burning an iso image to cd and booting from a usb CD drive or you can get "unetbootin" (either the windows or linux versions) and install that and the ubuntu iso image to a usb stick (1GB) is big enough. you can boot from the usb stick choose f12 boot options to select the drive and install ubuntu 9.04 there is a netbook remix version but i prefer a more standard desktop. ubuntu 9.04 really opens up the potential of the aspire one and gives you thousands of programs and themes you can install. I use my aspire one for many tasks watching films office work music and programing are just a few. remember this is a small laptop with a 1.6 ghz processor and without an optical drive it may be small but its no less a laptop. with ubuntu 9.04 installed you can just plug and play with a 3g usb huawai modem and really get the most out of these marvelous little laptops. Google aspire one ubuntu community documentation for more information.

you can even just boot the usb drive to try ubuntu without changing anything on the aspireone ssd (or hard drive)

Linpus is ok for what it does but its so limiting compared to a real linux desktop.

I'm posting this since I met a guy last week with an identical aspire one too mine but he still had linpus it took less than 5 minutes of seeing what its capable off to convince him to install ubuntu, he really was cheesed off with linpus and ubuntu 9.04 really does work out of the box.

Ubuntu 9.04 is the real bargin running on the aspire one and best of all its completely free.