Cool Stuffs Review

I attend a lot of meetings within my company and with clients. I go to seminars and conferences and I travel for work and family. I am a serious long time Mac user. Going back to about 1985 - I cut my teeth on a Mac Plus, yeah - old school. I switched to apple laptops later and loved them. I currently have a great 15inch MacBook Pro - its awesome. Powerful, runs amazingly fast, gorgeous. Its also heavy, big, and has pretty pathetic battery life. Its not usable for quick meetings. I have to pack the macbook, the cables, etc.. and usually my macbook was hooked up to a lot of stuff already so a pain to unhook it 4-5 times a day and take to a meeting and then reconnect it all.

I wanted a small laptop for note taking and light internet usage. I wanted it to have great battery life and I did not want to have to carry it in a bag. I wanted to be able to run to a meeting either down the hall or across the street and just grab the laptop and go. Not really possible with a $2600 apple laptop. I was tired of lugging my big apple laptop and accessories on vacation & worrying about getting it stolen or damaged at the hotel. I wanted a "throw down" laptop that if it was lost or stolen, I wouldn't be out $2600.

Enter the Acer Aspire One AOD150-1165, a fellow at work bought one for his daughter and I marveled at the size. It took me a long time to make the decision but I did it and have been very very happy. I waited for Apple to release something that was under $500 and realized it wasn't going to happen. I bought the red Acer Aspire One AOD150-1165 and let me tell you it is amazing. Its also the first wintel machine I have ever bought. Of course these days its easy to use this on a mac network or to use a USB stick to transfer files. So mac users, if you are tired of waiting for an apple netbook - give this guy a try - i promise you won't be disappointed. It connected to my airport extreme base station easily.

Pros:

Very sturdy build, very impressed with it.
Bright, glossy screen. Just a great screen.
Lots of adds - webcam, 3 usb ports, ethernet port, wifi, audio in & out
Big roomy HD and ample Ram.
Very solid feeling keyboard.
Insane battery life, I clocked it at 5+ hours plus one day and it still had 14% left.
Easy access to the hard drive and ram slot, could not be easier.
And the price - crazy cheap. $329 from Amazon.


Cons: (there aren't many)

CLick pad is small and hard to press, maybe it will get easier to use.
The power adapter is huge, really big. Luckily it has a great battery.
Comes with a lot of bloatware, but easy to nuke the junk.
No DVD / CD drive, well at this price.... can you expect one?
No system CDs. Unsure what I would do if I screwed up the OS.
Windows XP just pales in comparison to OSX, but its ok for light usage.Get more detail about Acer Aspire One AOD150-1920 10.1-Inch Ruby Red Netbook - 6.5 Hour Battery Life.