Acer Aspire One AOD255E Netbook (ep.5)

Beautiful netbook

I bought my Acer Aspire One AOD255 netbook-13639 at a local Kmart because it was $ 50.00 cheaper than Amazon so my review is on the unit itself rather than shipping / packaging. I guess Amazon is not the cheapest game in town more.
The Acer Aspire One AOD255-13639, in my opinion, a great netbook and I write my opinion on this point. The first thing I did was install Ubuntu 4.11 from a bootable USB drive with the Creator created boot disk included in last Ubuntu distributions; Menu> System> Administration Creator> Startup Disk.
Install Ubuntu Linux:
The installation completed without problems and I restarted in Ubuntu 11.04. Everything worked, gone are the days of spending hours trying to get a netbook with Ubuntu .. everything worked after restarting the netbook and I have not had a single problem. In addition, the line of Acer Aspire netbooks are “certified” by Canonical to run Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04 distributions, so it’s almost guaranteed that Ubuntu will run successfully on these netbooks.
Autonomy:
Yes, the description says that the battery life is only 4 hours, but I took my netbook with me now for about 3 hours and still had more than 3 hours of battery when I got to home – I guess the time spent in suspension n ‘t account for the 4 hours of battery life in Ubuntu.
Panel widget:
I recommend to add the complete indicator applet on the panel, because it gives a little information about the system: Right click on the panel, choose “Add group”, choose comprehensive indicator applet, click the “Add “.
Lag System:
None.
Crashing / freezing:
None.
Pros:
1. Everything works .. I’m even using GIMP to create GTK2 themes and I have not had any problems at all.
2. I plugged a USB mouse, USB keyboard and VGA monitor and all these devices work out-of-the-box and without problems.
3. One of the best things about a Linux distro is that you can install and run an office environments or more window managers. I installed Fluxbox, XFCE and LXDE, but I’m not sure I’ll use it again.
Cons:
None I can think of, the system is running fast and stable on Ubuntu 11.04.
If you are looking for a budget netbook to run Ubuntu then look no further .. I am very pleased with this unit.
 
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