Shop For Acer AO532h-2223 10.1-Inch Matrix Silver Netbook - Up To 8 Hours Of Battery Life Pleasantly surprised Caveat: I've only had the Acer AO532h-2588 for a week, so I am not qualified to judge its long term reliability or durability. Along with the usual web surfing, I use it for software development: Visual Foxpro and PHP/MySQL. For these non-demanding tasks, I can't tell the difference in speed between it and my triple core desktop. I received it sooner that was promised by Amazon's free delivery option. Setup went quickly: and I easily got rid of the trial McAfee and installed Avast virus scanner: got rid of the trial MS Office and downloaded Open Office: downloaded and installed PHP, MySQL, and Abyss, my favorite web server: copied the Visual Foxpro development system, programs, and data from a thumb drive: and was ready to go. As far as Windows 7 starter is concerned, I've no complaints. I don't see much difference between it and Vista, except it didn't take me a year to get it to where I wanted it, and I prefer 7's file navigation features. But then tend to be a minimalist! The only drawback is that it's going to take a while getting use to the smaller keyboard for heads up typing. But I put this in the category of "What do you want for nothing? Your money back? I do a lot of bicycle touring; and in the past I drew the line at lugging a notebook wit me. I may change my mind with this little baby. |
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