ACER ONE A150 AB £129.99 + P&P @ Currys, PC World, Dixons (refurbished)

alphazulu

How do you put the bluetooth dongle inside?

clueless_lad wrote: »

I bought one of these when the offers were on at asda. it was for this model, stated 80gb hard drive but when arrived it was 120gb, loads and loads of people have also confirmed this. I have upgraded the RAM to 1.5gb and was fairly easy, with loads of tutorials online and youtube. I also have installed bluetooth dongle inside and use it in the car for satnav and also for mobile internet with my nokia phone as a modem. Great buy these.
Mine came with linux on it which is good for usual browsers etc, tried Mac OS on it, but i couldnt get it to run stable so i installed Windows XP on it. might even dabble with windows 7 next month when it comes out on trial.

osagefo

alphazulu wrote: »

How do you put the bluetooth dongle inside?

Just insert the bluetooth dongle into the USB port. Very simple and takes just about a second to insert.

Donnie

davieg11 wrote: »

You can also buy refurbished netbooks from acer website http://www.acerdirect.co.uk/box_opened_laptops/prod.asp

That is not an ACER website. It's an independent company.

matt987106

not wanting to rubbish any1 here

BUT

the acer aspire works just fine with 1/2 gig of ram, i know people have mentioned upgrading the ram to 1 gig or more, but it runs XP just fine as standard and doesnt need the upgrade

oh and i could easily upgrade the ram, but as the saying goes if its not broke blah blah

terricfan

matt987106 wrote: »

the acer aspire works just fine with 1/2 gig of ram, i know people have mentioned upgrading the ram to 1 gig or more, but it runs XP just fine as standard and doesnt need the upgrade

Are you running a "full" XP installation, or something custom such as TinyXP instead?

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alphazulu

The poster said he put it inside which sounds a bit different to just plugging in a USB dongle!

osagefo wrote: »

Just insert the bluetooth dongle into the USB port. Very simple and takes just about a second to insert.

Tightmartin

terricfan wrote: »

Are you running a "full" XP installation, or something custom such as TinyXP instead?

XP runs fine with 512MB of RAM and has for the last 4 years on my Dell Desktop. If you don't expect it to do much more that word processing or browsing the net it is fine. Most netbooks will not be doing more than that.
XP was originally designed to run with a minimun of 128MB.

Spikey_2

are these a good buy or not?

alphazulu

Now £169.99

Spikey wrote: »

are these a good buy or not?