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is my new Acer Aspire One.
Sadly they ran out of units with Linpus so I got the Windows XP version. And they ran out of the free DVD drive too. In any case, I was wondering if I could install Ubuntu Netbook Remix but the download took forever to finish. I had to leave my other laptop downloading the .img file the entire night. Another problem I have is that the .img file is 1GB and the flash drive I have here has less than that in terms of free space. I need to go out and see if I could buy one with a bigger capacity.
I also tried looking at installing Ubuntu within Windows because that’s an option. The problem with that is it will download the files from the internet too. If that’s the case I’d rather see first if I could install Ubuntu Netbook Remix.
You might be wondering why I didn’t wait for another shipment of Aspire One units. It’s mainly because I want to take advantage of the holidays and set it up before January. It would probably be easier if I waited for the stock of DVD drives but I really just want to know how it would fare and if it’s truly good enough for me as a work machine. The form factor is really great, so far. And the battery life on Windows was 4 hours. I have yet to see how long it will be on Ubuntu.
