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Saturday, August 16, 2008

Aspire One still sick
By : Neil Berman

...after three recoveries and two support calls, my One is definitely screwed. Anytime I turn on the wifi it goes nuts, nukes the screen and crawls into a corner until you force it to power off.It's going back to Acer on Monday, my fourth laptop to have problems in the last couple of years. Here's the honor role in ascending order of annoyance:4. eMachines AMD Sempron WinXP: f, g, h and j keys failed unless pressed really hard, went back for a new mobo, now happy.3. Everex Intel Core Duo Vista: Resume failed sporadiacally, got annoying and went back for a new mobo, now happy.2. Apple Macbook Intel Core 2 Duo OSX Tiger: Fails to switch on if warm, need to wait for it to cool down (known in Mac support circles as 'The Oven'). Basically I can only switch it on once per day. Crashes if you plug a USB device into the 'wrong' USB port (discovered in a M-Audio support call after getting multiple OSX crashes). Never sent it back cos I was lazy and now out of warranty.1. Acer Aspire One...sick and about to be medicated.

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