Acer Aspire One

[maturin]

After a slew of trojans and viruses my two-year old HP laptop slowed to a crawl, then a slooow crawl.

So I'll have to reformat and see if that helps. Meanwhile I bought one of the new generation of 'netbooks', the nifty little Acer One. 1.6, a gig of Ram, 120 gig, XP.

Anyone else tried it?

I've had it for about two hours and I'm impressed.

It's burned a couple of discs (external LG DVD) and played an episode of Touch of Frost, and now it's surfing well on Chrome.

Battery's on 2 hours.

Plus it's small enough to hide during the pub quiz at the Bull.



Richard

[EHV_Emmetts]

A work colleague has recently bought a netbook and raves about it. Apparently they have no internal drives as everything is contained on a flash memory.

[maturin]

Yes, I looked at that version, but it only had 8 or maybe 16 gig of memory, and ran on Linux, which I'm unfamiliar with. The selling point seems to be price and the fact that it doesn't have a hard disk, so you can drop it.

I decided I'm not going to drop mine, so I got the hard disk version.

[EHV_Emmetts]

Acer Aspire One A110L White N270 512MB 8GB 8.9" Net Book - Tesco.Direct

[Mr Cosmo]

Maturin

Try Free Virus Scan - Kaspersky Lab on your HP to see if it can help rid you of the viruses.

[maturin]

name='Mr Cosmo']Maturin

Try Free Virus Scan - Kaspersky Lab on your HP to see if it can help rid you of the viruses.

Thanks for a very good suggestion, but the nasty virus won't let me get on the Net. It hides C drive and the Programmes tab, won't let me System Restore or Cntrl/Alt/Delete, has renamed all my ant-virus software and can't be deleted by the s0ftware I have. Time for a format I think.

Trouble is, I've forgotten the password for my D-link wireless router!

[jamesharris]

name='maturin']After a slew of trojans and viruses my two-year old HP laptop slowed to a crawl, then a slooow crawl.

So I'll have to reformat and see if that helps. Meanwhile I bought one of the new generation of 'netbooks', the nifty little Acer One. 1.6, a gig of Ram, 120 gig, XP.

Anyone else tried it?

I've had it for about two hours and I'm impressed.

It's burned a couple of discs (external LG DVD) and played an episode of Touch of Frost, and now it's surfing well on Chrome.

Battery's on 2 hours.

Plus it's small enough to hide during the pub quiz at the Bull.



Richard

i've got one.they're great!

[maturin]

name='jamesharris']i've got one.they're great!

Two weeks in and I agree. My heavy old Hp is now my home computer and I carry a twee little case with just the One and an external hard drive. My chiropractor is over the moon.

[EHV_Emmetts]

name='maturin']Two weeks in and I agree. My heavy old Hp is now my home computer and I carry a twee little case with just the One and an external hard drive. My chiropractor is over the moon.

Did you manage to remove all the trojans from your HP laptop?

[maturin]

name='EHV_Emmetts']Did you manage to remove all the trojans from your HP laptop?

Only by reformatting the hard drive! I hesitated for a long while because I didn't know the D-Link wireless router password and I thought I'd muck up the reset. Now that I'm comfortable with the Acer One, I took the first plunge and reformatted the HP.

Now I have to summon up enough courage to reset the router!

[maturin]

Just visited the Acer Service place at Panthip (notorious for bootlegs) Plaza in Bangkok as the my by-now-indispensable Aspire One died this morning. The little light said it was on, but it wasn't: no boot up.

It was whisked away by a technician while I was completing the forms with the nice lady and returned before I'd filled in my address.

The guy said he'd flashed my Bios.

Though this sounds like something which would happen in an Alabama house of correction, it was almost instant, free, painless and effective.

Full marks to Acer and 10 months of warranty left. But I wonder what went wrong....

[wellpip]

name='maturin']After a slew of trojans and viruses my two-year old HP laptop slowed to a crawl, then a slooow crawl.

So I'll have to reformat and see if that helps. Meanwhile I bought one of the new generation of 'netbooks', the nifty little Acer One. 1.6, a gig of Ram, 120 gig, XP.

Anyone else tried it?

I've had it for about two hours and I'm impressed.

It's burned a couple of discs (external LG DVD) and played an episode of Touch of Frost, and now it's surfing well on Chrome.

Battery's on 2 hours.

Plus it's small enough to hide during the pub quiz at the Bull.



Richard

My Daughter bought one over a year ago and believe me they are good. I’ve never seen a laptop that has been abused as much as hers and its still working!

[lordtednfs]

Try using bitdefender, it's excellent at finding root kits and the like. They have a trial version that's top notch and I have changed from Zonealarm to this. BitDefender Australia - AntiVirus - AntiSpam - Antispyware – Firewall Software, Data Security, Free Protection



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Hooked off the line

[maturin]

name='lordtednfs']Try using bitdefender, it's excellent at finding root kits and the like. They have a trial version that's top notch and I have changed from Zonealarm to this. BitDefender Australia - AntiVirus - AntiSpam - Antispyware – Firewall Software, Data Security, Free Protection



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Hooked off the line

Thanks for the suggestion - my Mcafee free trial just ended so I'm looking for a replacement. I use Avira on my HP laptop, but the trojans got through.

Cheers

Richard

[EHV_Emmetts]

Have a look at this, it's what I use.



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