I have had an Aspire One for a little over a year and I love the convenience when traveling (or just wanting to work outside of my office/shack). You'll have to look at the various models to see what you like in terms of screen & keyboard, disk, RAM etc. and for many battery life is important. My "6 cell" Aspire One runs about six hours doing typical stuff in Windows, I have not timed it in Linux. A model with a solid state hard drive will be better for power consumption but shy on useable free space and painfully sluggish at times. Personally I would go with a regular hard drive but I tend to write to the disk a lot and that is where the solid state drives fall flat.
Most netbooks will have an Intel Atom 270 processor and with it likely the Intel 945GSE chipset. IMO that's a good combination in terms of computing power vs. power consumption. There is a less popular CPU made by VIA in some netbooks and it might be just a bit anemic, I dunno.
For the money I can't say a bad thing about the Acer. The early runs had a common FTB issue but a flash BIOS update fixed that.
Oh I can sit the little Acer right on top of my HF rig and turn it on and not hear any additional noise.
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