New toy; Acer Aspire 'One' netbook

[gtr4Him]

Intel Atom N450 1.66 ghz, 1GB RAM, 160GB hard disk, Win 7 Starter

The onboard sound is 24 bit capable and sounds pretty dang good. Works great with ASIO4ALL. Get myself some good earbuds and I'll have a "Studio in a coat pocket" system. Amazing performance... I figured the little guy for a web surfin', occasional MS Officin', goofin' around machine but no... it's actually usable for a DAW on the go.

Pic: 18 tracks 24/44.1 audio, piles of FX (mostly Cockos) playing off a WD USB2 pocket drive.

Ain't it CUTE!?!?



TG

PS My Tascam US-122L works fabbo with it as well. Just gotta get a couple BIAB 'snafu's' ironed out...

[Saz]

That's cool!

And good to know!

[gtr4Him]

Yup. I want to upgrade to 2GB RAM and grab a hi-speed 32GB SD card for the onboard slot. Should be able to store and work on a few projects with this little guy without lugging an external disk around.

Decent performance for sure... I even forgot to turn off the wi-fi when playing around when I took the pic. No glitches... pretty cool.

TG

[sinbad]

Amazing how things develop. My lappie is only 5 years old and I considered it pretty good at the time. Looking at your spec the only thing that I have is probably a faster drive, a bigger screen, and a cardbus connection. I suppose I shouldn't bitch too much when I get the dreaded "buffer overrun" message. Time to upgrade.

[TimOBrien]

I got a Toshiba NB205 for Christmas, upgraded to 2Gb of ram and it runs everything I can throw at it.  The >9-hour< battery life is incredible.  I went with the XP version; I'm not running anything Win7 until it's out for awhile.
(I've had no problem running any software - OpenOffice, Photoshop, even Blender and Reaper on it.)

I also got mine as a websurfing and writing but now plan to add it to my network as another Reaper Reamote VST slave...

I did a bunch of investigating on them when my son when to college last fall and got him an identical unit and he's loving his, too.

[gtr4Him]

Yeah... this one has the six cell battery. I've used it probably four hours or so on battery... the "meter" shows about four hours left. It'd probably be even better but I ran an external disk off the battery for about thirty minutes... My "grown up" laptop won't run two hours on a full charge.

Pretty sweet...

TG

[gtr4Him]

After living with the Acer 'One' N450 for a couple weeks now, I am flabbergasted that anyone would give an iPad a cursory glance... never mind actually buying one of the damn things. For LESS money, I have a REAL computer that can run REAL applications, doing REAL work... What the heck would one even consider an iPad for? I giant, bloated iPod/iPhone hybrid? Screw that...

Jobs needs to pull his head out of his butt and start making USEFUL machines instead of freakin' toys... (IMO, YMMV, etc...)

TG - The Anti-Apple