It started out as a new gad­get. It has evolved into a  much loved accessory.

I wanted a net­book sim­ply for the size. I debated it for months. I drove my hus­band nuts with my own debates over the pros and cons, both tech­ni­cal and phys­i­cal. When I travel, it could fit in my tote bag.  The size would make it harder to see a full screen. When I am work­ing in the kitchen, it wouldn’t take up  the whole counter. The key­board is smaller, would it be too hard to type? When the kids have a project, we can work wher­ever we hap­pen to be.  The kids might try to com­man­deer it from me. The list went on and on.  My hus­band got tired of me debat­ing myself, and bought it for me. The nov­elty has worn off, but not the functionality.

I am now the happy owner of an ACER Aspire One net­book. I have had it for sev­eral months already, and find I use it a lot. It has a def­i­nite advan­tage over my old lap­top, in its porta­bil­ity. It lived up to all my expec­ta­tions in regards to its size, and then some. For me, the pros def­i­nitely out­weighed the cons. The size and porta­bil­ity fac­tor make up for any of the speed con­cerns. I don’t mind tak­ing it any­where. I just drop it in my tote, and off we go.

So far, I have been able to run the pro­grams I use daily with no dif­fi­culty. My hus­band chose the extended bat­tery, and I am glad. It lasts around 6 hours before need­ing recharged. It is a bit slower than my desk­top, how­ever, I am get­ting used to that. This is an ongo­ing joke in our house. If the com­puter isn’t mov­ing at the speed of light, I get click happy. I just have to remem­ber to be patient, not my strong point.

I mainly use the inter­net with it, and that works beau­ti­fully. Everything for wifi is built right in, I don’t have to plug in a wire­less card like the lap­top. This means fewer parts to carry around also, sat­is­fy­ing my desire to down­size my tote bag. Again, just toss the net­book in my bag, and I’m off. It doesn’t weigh much at all, which my shoul­der likes a lot! I don’t even miss not hav­ing any of the disc dri­ves. I sim­ply plug in my mem­ory card or flash drive when I need a file from my desk­top or to load pic­tures off the cam­era. You know it is easy if I can do it!

I have only con­nected to the inter­net away from home at a few hotels, and had no trou­ble. I really haven’t done the restau­rant wifi thing yet, although the kids auto­mat­i­cally point out “wifi hotspots” to me. It sounds appeal­ing, but when we are trav­el­ing, I don’t usu­ally sit on the com­puter mid­day. I use it more in the evening when we have called it a day to update a blog or down­load pic­tures from the day. It fit per­fectly on the air­plane tray though, so that was pretty nice!

Overall,  I would rec­om­mend the Acer Aspire One. Whether you are trav­el­ling around the world or around town, it is easy to take along and fun to use!

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