Winner!
Providing they reduce the battery cost to something sane too..
Acer has cut the price of the Aspire One, making its Small, Cheap Computer even cheaper. In the US, at any rate. Stateside, the AA1 with an 8GB SSD, 512MB of memory and Linux pre-loaded will now cost $329 (£175/€221), down from $379 (£202/€255). The AA1 with a 120GB HDD, 1GB of DDR 2 and Windows XP is now priced at $349 (£186 …
I got one today. My prime purpose is to learn about Gnu Linux , this is the first lesson.
The keyboard driver is configured incorrectly.
Five characters appear from the wrong keys : \ from # , # from £ and Euro from Alt Gr 5 ; @ and " are swapped.
Six characters ar marked and don't appear at all : £ & * ( ) and the broken | .
So far I can find no easy way to rectify this, there is no directly accessible keyboard nationality setting.