I had an Aspire One a while back with the Intel Atom processor. For most of the time I had it, I ran Arch Linux on it with Awesome WM, and it worked great. The only reason I sold it was because I wanted to go from two laptops to one (I had a full sized laptop and the netbook). I ended up buying an Asus 1215N (12.1" netbook with dual core processor). I ended up being unhappy with the feel of the keyboard on that one. I sold that, and now I have a Lenovo T61 that I got off of Ebay. I'm running Debian on this, and it's awesome. With all that said, I could see myself buying an Aspire One again and being right back where I started. However, something like a Kindle Fire might be a better move for me. I guess we'll see. -Erik On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > I was at Costco today and took a quick look at the netbooks. They had just > run out of this one, but they had been selling it for $250, which was $100 > off of their usual price: > > http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11677792&whse=BC&Ne=5000001+4000000&eCat=BC|84|56670&N=4047229%204294965745&Mo=6&No=6&Nr=P_CatalogName:BC&Ns=P_Price|1||P_SignDesc1&lang=en-US&Sp=C > shortened: > http://goo.gl/4k0pm > > This seems to be the same thing: > > http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&client=ubuntu&channel=cs&biw=1080&bih=933&q=Acer%C2%AE+Aspire+One+AO722+4GB&gs_upl=6195l9993l0l10473l4l4l0l3l0l0l169l169l0.1l1l0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=9018055126687275493&sa=X&ei=Xs_AToXsDIScgQf4jvm6Bw&ved=0CIMBEPMCMAE > shortened: > http://goo.gl/2vGwY > > > Acer Aspire ONE 722-0022 - Fusion 1 GHz - 11.6″ - 4 GB Ram - 500 GB HDD > $368 online > > September 2011 - Acer - Netbook - 11.6 inch - Windows 7 - 4 GB RAM - AMD CPU > - 500 GB disk - 1000 MHz CPU - AMD GPU - 1366 x 768 - Touchpad - Widescreen > - With Built-in Camera - 3.2 pound - 7 hour battery > > The 11.6" Aspire ONE 722 is sensationally designed to deliver amazing HD > visual experiences wherever you go. Anytime, anywhere connectivity plus an > eco-friendly platform round out this netbook and make it ideal for your > highly mobile digital lifestyle. > > > I'm very impressed. A little while later I was in Target where I saw a Sony > portable DVD player with 6 hour battery life selling for $145. I couldn't > see myself buying it if I could get a powerful computer with a better screen > for only $105 more. > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- Erik K. Mitchell erik.mitchell at gmail.com http://mitc0185.com/