Has anyone tried the Acer Aspire One

  • Nicanor5
Posted: Mon, 10/19/2009 - 03:48
Hello everyone. I'm thinking about getting an Acer Aspire One, but I don't know how would it work for my needs. I need to work with audio mainly, because I don't work with graphics at all, and I wanted to know how does the atom processor handles it, if anyone has tried it and if it is good. Thank you very much.
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My brother had one of those.

  • cmay
  • 10/15/09
  • Mon, 10/19/2009 - 17:22
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My brother had one of those. he told me he had so many problems with the installation of ubuntu that he had to simply give up. I had a asus eeepc which also uses the intel atom and that was really great for skype and I used it for that only. I had to sell it because it was too small and I have a eye condition so I need a ordinary screen size. for audio production I would think a mac was the best choice. after that any laptop that runs debian based distributions and a good soundcard solution.

I am using an aspire one

  • jon armand
  • 11/03/09
  • Tue, 11/03/2009 - 17:06
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I am using an aspire one (AO150) with ubuntu 9.04, and everything works out of the box. However, with 64studio 3 being based on 8.04 (as far as I know), there are some issues that need to be resolved. There are some good howtos on ubuntuforums.org. In ubuntu 9.04 I installed the real time kernel, and Traverso for recording and editing audio. It works ok. Good luck!

What model are you looking

  • GraysonPeddie
  • 07/27/08
  • Mon, 10/19/2009 - 12:40
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What model are you looking to buy? Mine is an AOA150 and I have it for 8 months now. It is running Ubuntu 9.10 beta and I've not tried it before. However, I am not sure of Atom's performance, but I can tell you it's not that great at all, since it's geared toward people who surf the web, check e-mails, use OpenOffice/Office applications, etc. Mine's purchased for $300.