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Dunk987654321 November 6, 2008 at 11:50 am

great vid

Hopelessly0hopeful November 6, 2008 at 7:21 pm

My mom and dad are most likely going to get me one of these for Christmas, they said they are much cheaper. Please message me to tell me if a laptop like this would be good for my age group please! Great video!

unaclocker November 6, 2008 at 10:27 pm

You didn’t mention your age group. But I feel it’d be a great machine for tweens and teens. Especially something like the Dell Mini9 that has no moving parts, so it can really take a beating without breaking. Younger hands would probably fit the keyboard quite nicely too.

Hopelessly0hopeful November 7, 2008 at 6:52 pm

well, I thought you might check out my page. I found out that my parents can get a better deal on a regular desktop computer, so I don’t think I’m getting that laptop. But, thank you for the input!

Woopee November 12, 2008 at 9:05 pm

You can’t telephone with a netbook!!!!!
It doesn’t replace smartphones.

thedickiesman November 14, 2008 at 3:26 pm

I know this guys brother fred.

pcrox200 November 15, 2008 at 10:46 am

actually yes you can with skype the acer aspire one has a built in webcam and a built in microphone so yea you can call somebody.

Woopee November 15, 2008 at 11:01 am

I’m aware of that. But try to do that on the road. A quick phone call would mean: Start your machine, connect to wifi, start Skype, let it log in, plug in your headphones.
Then:
Calls to mobile phones from skype are really expensive.
Also you need to find a wifi spot or hsdpa that still costs a lot per mb.
And a netbook is not so portable to always have it with you.
So just any kind of netbook is not a serious option to a smartphone.
A portable phone should allow instant phone calls.

nerdy8675309 November 30, 2008 at 9:09 pm

purchase a car mount, and a celly card for your netbook, just throwing that out there that it is possible and isn’t a terrible option

DANZAAT December 6, 2008 at 8:16 pm

You have cheap small phone, with a webbook (proper computer) or you could have an over priced brick (smartphone) with limted features.

barronboi2207 January 16, 2009 at 1:39 pm

are netbooks good for school

wenzilber February 8, 2009 at 4:39 pm

Agreed! But all of those features are listed for a price of 5,000 USD per month! Anyone can get a Netbook for 10% of that monthly rate, hehehe!

dimputhegreat February 9, 2009 at 3:59 am

actually if they build a netbook with QUADBAND GSM SIM CARD SLOT,MEMORY SLOT, you can agree that netbooks have replaced a smart phone,as for the webcam how’s the camera picture quality?

flemeister February 21, 2009 at 8:42 am

It’s perfect. Small-medium fingers + modest keyboard = perfect fit. Can fit in student’s lockers for safe keeping.

Ryan195 March 8, 2009 at 8:18 am

nice video. i just bought an Asus 900a, looking forward to receiving it next week.

shotojukukai June 27, 2009 at 8:07 pm

How do you get SKYPE on the acer aspire one??? Is there a step-by-step video?

smoochin84 August 21, 2009 at 2:22 am

it is pretty easy just go to the website and download it. i just did it. it only took a few minutes.

trumbachd1 September 12, 2009 at 9:34 am

for those of us still using Set Top Boxes like WebTV (due to severely limited finances ), this looks like an affordable way for even those of us on very limited incomes to upgrade our internet access.

techdudezz October 10, 2009 at 7:05 am

Hey Goatberg.. fuckin take out the netbook and show us a shiny review video!