Cool Stuffs Review

When I opened the box for the Acer One 10.1 inch Aspire, I fell in love. It was soooo cute! The compact size and tidy design just made me giddy. The screen was super clear and colorful. Keyboard, finger mouse, speed, sound all good. I read the manual first. Novel idea, I know. And that was the first little glitch. The manual is very generic often stating, "depending on the model." The very first thing I was encouraged to do was activate a factory back-up using Acer's built-in system. Well, you have to have a portable drive to do that. That was the second glitch. I borrowed one from my tech guy at work. Five and a half hours and nine CDs later, the back up still wasn't finished. I didn't have any more discs so I had to abort. I decided to go ahead and use the computer anyway. It was becoming apparent that I would need a portable CD/DVD-rom drive for lots of things meaning an additional $100 at least. I downloaded my iTunes library and my digital camera software. I put Chuzzle on it and Yahoo toolbar. Then, it crashed. Strike three. I got the dreaded System32 hal.dll error message on a dos screen, totally frozen no Windows access at all. The Acer people responded quickly to my email (on another computer), but it was no use. I would have to buy the boot up disk for $20 and the portable drive and another Microsoft Office (used my third download on the license) because the re-boot would swipe it clean. I realized then that I didn't really want a netbook with no internal disc drive. Amazon was very reasonable about my returning it as is. I still think it is a sweet little laptop. Either I got a dud or the things I wanted to use it for were too much for it. My suggestion to Acer is to make the manual more informative. Had I known what the factory back up would entail, I'd have prepared for it. Also, all the solutions they offered me except for one included a model with an internal disc drive. If you buy this netbook, get the portable disc drive too. You're going to need it. Get more detail about Acer Aspire One AOD150-1920 10.1-Inch Ruby Red Netbook - 6.5 Hour Battery Life.