No need to link to the Crunch Gear spam.

http://www.buy.com/prod/acer-aspire-one-aoa110-1955-1-6ghz-5...

I have this machine and love it. Hell of a deal.

Thanks. How does it compare with eeePC?

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I don't have an EeePC so I am probably not the best to compare, but at the $300 price point the Aspire One looks to smoke it. I can't imagine it has better build quality, the Aspire One is really solid. Here's the EeePC I found for the same price:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ZLSXJO/prsboos

It has a 7" screen, 800MHz Celeron, 4GB SSD, etc. The specs aren't even close. I think screen is the most important, there is a huge difference between the 1024x600 that the Aspire One has and the 800x480 of the EeePC.

No wireless. Less space than a nomad...

Just kidding.

I can't comment on how it compares, but it is awesome.

I have one of the new 6 cell ones. I get 5 hours of battery life actually doing stuff on it (multiple programs open, etc)

For $300-ish I think it totally blows away the competition as well. I feel almost stupid that I just bought mine from Amazon now for 399, but it is worth it

I have a 7'' Asus EEE and I have to say that the small keyboard and small screen really kills the experience.

I think that I'd much rather get the Asus S101 even though it's more than double the price.

http://www.slashgear.com/asus-s101-luxury-fashion-netbook-of...

It's a 10'' screen and thin like the Mac Air. But at $700, that's still quite the steal.

As a caveat, I just bought the new Macbook and I'm loving it. I think that this thing is really portable enough for me to take anywhere, and yet powerful enough for me to use as a desktop replacement. It's really the best value for the price. (Plus, for lack of a better way to describe it, OS X = ownage)

I just got the new macbook too! Its so frickin solid. The only thing that makes me mad is that they don't have s-video adapters anymore...lame.

Buy.com's price is actually $294.99. That is after you factor in coupon savings, which is what we do with prices on Bountii:

http://bountii.com/search.php?item=aspire+one&sort=price...

Are the coupons always publicly available to everyone?

"the Linpus Linux Lite operating system"

Do you really want to pick a brand name with the word "pus" in it?

Dear Netbook makers:

Just. Use. Ubuntu.

Signed, everyone.

I thought the same thing initially, but there are other successful examples, like Olympus or Canopus.

Thanks for your post, ashishk. I've been ogling the various netbooks/ultraportables/what-have-you, not wanting to spend gobs of money but also really wanting to have one, just for the sake of having one. This seems like a nice compromise between those two conflicting desires.

yeah, i like my mac, but the mb air doesnt seem worth the money (for the portability, atleast). this, however, seems very reasonable.

Spec-identical on Amazon for 299: http://www.amazon.com/Acer-Aspire-8-9-inch-Laptop-Processor/...

That shows as $325.99 for me...

Hmm, interesting. It's definitely $299 for me.

That's interesting, you must have been selected for a promo price or something fun. I checked through the AWS API and it's $325.99 there. But then from a free web proxy it showed as $299 and being fulfilled from a third party named MOBILESHARK. Maybe it's geography?

It's a deal at either price point, I bought one off Amazon last month for $329.99 (though while I got the same model, it was from Amazon directly so it qualified for Amazon Prime and I got free 2-day shipping).

Update: figured it out--I see the $299.99 pricepoint from MOBILESHARK when viewing Amazon.com while not signed in. That's curious. But since it has $16.99 shipping, there's not much of a difference (it's free from Amazon).

It is $322 for me. Amazon must just roll the price dice.

Why are you guys posting stuff for sale here?

I am afraid this will lead to mass spamming here.

Spam won't get voted up or commented on. People are clearly interested in this particular product, at least this time.