Hehe, no offense intended. I was just happy to see some hands on videos shot
by a real person, not a tech journalist or an PR person. If and when you buy
an Aspire One, I’d love to know what you think of it after a week or a
month. It’ll be interesting to discover whether the wow factor wears off or
not.

Haha, I should have spent a few more minutes reading your blog before
accusing you of *not* being a PR guy.

I enjoyed your videos all the same.

And there's the rub – I *AM* a PR person. Whatever… my 11-year old daughter couldn't put it down so I guess that's her Christmas present sorted.
I see your point about the wow factor and that's certainly something I'm going to ask buyers to write about on my blog.
I think for “normal” users, and by that I mean people who don't want to strip it out and trick it with their preferred OS, it's going to be a painless ride. Everything you really need is there (ah, no calculator LOL) and that all-inclusive interface, as far as I could see, gives you very little to mess around with which means that for the majority, there's little chance of breaking it.
One idea Acer's toying with which I think will make a real difference to the long-term “value” of these devices is to set up a sort of Aspire One community where users can download apps & drivers from a “safe” environment along the lines of what Apple's doing with the iPhone 2.0. If they do, life will get a LOT easier…

Yeah you're right, I was a bit cheerful but thanks for linking
The reason I went overboard with that OpenOffice.org document is because a LOT of people who stumble across my blog are as computer illiterate as me and might be scared of going with a non-MS set up because of incompatibility worries.
That puts me between a rock (Joe Public) and a hard place (Power Users) and makes me do lowest common denominator stuff… (clutching at straws?)…
Still, I had a fun 24 hours and want one badly so that settles it, I really am an Acer Fanboy

And there's the rub – I *AM* a PR person. Whatever… my 11-year old daughter couldn't put it down so I guess that's her Christmas present sorted.
I see your point about the wow factor and that's certainly something I'm going to ask buyers to write about on my blog.
I think for “normal” users, and by that I mean people who don't want to strip it out and trick it with their preferred OS, it's going to be a painless ride. Everything you really need is there (ah, no calculator LOL) and that all-inclusive interface, as far as I could see, gives you very little to mess around with which means that for the majority, there's little chance of breaking it.
One idea Acer's toying with which I think will make a real difference to the long-term “value” of these devices is to set up a sort of Aspire One community where users can download apps & drivers from a “safe” environment along the lines of what Apple's doing with the iPhone 2.0. If they do, life will get a LOT easier…