Comments on: Free Agent Fantasy Impact: Jason Bay

By: Dustin Hinkey

Dustin Hinkey — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:36:43 +0000

I work at Best Buy and guessed you actually might possibly really want to get in on this March promo we’ve been having for new shoppers gift cards. Try it out…people are getting tons of zero cost products these days.

By: Douglass Marque

Douglass Marque — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:45:04 +0000

OMG! This douchebag at work was pretty much revealing to me this same exact thing. Anyhow, seeing as I am about to quit this crap-lousy company, I suppose I should supply you with a hook up. Not many people find out about this, but you can usually get a $1,000 gift card for 100 % free at the present time, kind regards of the sluggish district management. These people will certainly try anything for more customers!!

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By: Reta Bream

Reta Bream — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:03:35 +0000

Up side: I bought this nice little netbook for my wife and we both love it. We got the diamond black version and both of us love the charcoal color of the hand rest. The built-in microphone, webcam and speakers make chatting on Skype an easy, enjoyable experience. For me, 3 USB ports is much better than 2 because I always have a USB mouse and USB flash drive hooked up. Great portability for making presentations. We use the netbook on the desk most of the time (not on the lap), but it doesn’t overheat like some other computers do. The 10″ screen, to me, is significantly better/larger than the 8.9″ screen. I don’t have large hands but I find the 85% keyboard usable (but not so much for the 8.9″ versions). The hinge for changing the angle of the screen is surprisingly sturdy. The 802.11g Wi Fi is very fast. Firefox runs well and smooth despite taking up 200-300 MB of RAM sometimes. Although I have not used the first Aspire One, the AOD150 seems to be an improvement over the first edition.

Down side: the keyboard does feel a little flimsy. It’s a netbook, so obviously it doesn’t have an internal DVD/CD drive. But since that I’ve put it on a wireless router network, I have been able to share the DVD/CD drives on my desktop computer and run CDs and DVDs on the Aspire One remotely. The screen is glossy and so it does create reflections depending on the angle. For indoor viewing I don’t have a problem with the glossiness. The trackpad, however, is not the most responsiveand so we use a mouse instead.

Comparison to the Lenovo S10: I seriously considered the Lenovo S10 netbook because they have very similar specs. Both have 10″ screens, 160 GB HD, 1 GB RAM. But the Aspire One AOD150 has 3 USB ports and a 6-cell battery. We have not test-driven the battery enough to say anything, but a 6-cell battery should outperform a 3-cell battery (Lenovo S10).

Trivial: I also bought the Crucial 2GB 667 Mhz for $24 but have not installed it because so far the machine is running sufficiently well with 1GB RAM and that changing components on the computer may void the warranty. So maybe I’ll install it after the warranty has expired.

Overall: Excellent little computer for $350 that contains almost everything that you need (except for internal drive). Acer has done a great job in creating a netbook that is both functional and portable at the same time.