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Acer has formally launched the Aspire One Pro 531, a "business class" version of the already rather corporate-styled Aspire One 531. Acer Aspire One 531 Pro Acer's Aspire One 531 Pro: business class, apparently To be honest, we think the regular 531 is better looking, and since both vanilla and Pro machines are an inch …

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  1. A. H. O. Thabeth

    Too much HD size?

    "The Pro also comes with a 250GB hard drive to the regular 531's 160GB HDD, but how much storage space do you need in a netbook, for heaven's sake?"

    How much HD space is too much?

    Please do let me know.

    A.H.O. Thabeth

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  2. Gary Walker

    1024 x 600 ?

    What is the point?!

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    More Trademarks!

    A netBook Pro™?! Psion are going to go proper mental now...

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  4. Tom Chiverton
    Linux

    Linux ?

    Is the hardware supported, at least ?

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  5. Anonymous Coward
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    Any word on whether they'd offer it with business class support?

    We get a few people wanting a work-bought netbook for when they go travelling, and Dell have finally caught up and started offering us something viable with a suitable warranty (ie next business day, on site parts & labour, etc). Last time I checked Acer's offering, it was something like a 5-business-day collect-and-return job, which is an instant "no".

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  6. jason
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    Non-Gloss finish!!!! Thats worth the extra alone!

    God I hate glossy finishes. Its just ...retarded...and dirty.

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  7. Anonymous Coward
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    Lost the plot?

    Netbook - cheap, small, light....

    Why bother, at the cost and weight of this one you can get a much better laptop. Marketing seem to be in a little world of their own on the recent 'netbooks'

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  8. Anonymous Coward
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    Missing 'n'.

    All that extra storage space in a netbook can only mean one thing: this is the Pr0n bersion, not the Pro version.

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  9. Keith T
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    Netbook benchmark suggestion ---

    Why not benchmark these netbooks by seeing how many Facebook and MySpace tabs you can simultaneously have open and still get good response.

    And make it a realistic test, with all the standard updates for the O/S, and an up-to-date anti-virus installed.

    If you get a netbook with 1GB of memory you are going to wish you had 2GB of memory by the end of the second week.

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