Acer Aspire One or Hyperdrive experience?

[jky]

Hey guys & gals,
...could use a hand here...

Anybody have experience with these Acer Aspire One mini notebooks? The one I'm looking at has 1Gig RAM & 120Gig HD.
Purpose would be storage for travel... mainly to leave the 14" HP laptop at home.

I'm also looking at the Hyperdrive Colorspace. Smaller, but pretty much the same storage capacity for nearly the same price.

The Acer is more attractive due to the fact that it's primarily a laptop that can "double" as storage.

Can anybody share their experiences?

Regards, j

 

[Jerrold]

I just bought an Acer myself, XP 8.9" edition, bit of a bargain price when I consider what I've paid for an Epson HD unit in the past, initial impressions after about 1hr usage. Keyboard seems good, mouse is adequate, weird buttons, won't be playing games with it...
Screen is quite glossy and the resolution is as expected, I haven't put any programs or photos on yet to test speeds, but it doesn't seem slow. Can buy a bigger battery if needed.
Its not really the same as the hyperdrive, its bigger, but then it does have WiFi in and you can do many other things with it

 

[ampguy]

I've used the Acer Aspire One, and it's keyboard is just a tad better than the Asus 900s we have (but the Acer's are harder to upgrade).

In any case, neither will work well for a notebook replacement, the keyboards and screen are just too small. But they do work well for memory card storage. Ours have 160gb hdds.

 

[varjag]

I use Aspire One at home, the 1Gb with SSD model. The Linpus distro that came with it has been underwhelming, so I upgraded to Ubuntu version from linux4one project. It replaced home PC except for scanning & image processing.

 

[ChrisN]

Whichever one you go for, don't leave yourself with just a single copy of your image files, either on a Hyperdrive or a netbook. For travelling I like a small notebook loaded with Lightroom so I can review and catalog my images daily. I also connect a portable USB hard disk to the notebook, and Lightroom will automatically make a second copy on the USB disk when importing the images from the card. Only after checking both copies (notebook hard disk and backup USB hard disk) will I reformat the card. If I'm travelling by car I'll also take an old Compactdrive PD70x, and use it as a second external drive to make another backup. Paranoia is good! 🙂

 

[jky]

ChrisN: ... digital is supposed to be "simpler", right? 😉
A couple of years ago when my wife and I traveled to Europe for a month (& storage was still expensive), I brought blank DVDs to burn on the go. I had 2 copies therefore - one on the HDD and the other on the DVD.
...cumbersome cumbersome...
🙂

 

[ChrisN]

ChrisN: ... digital is supposed to be "simpler", right? 😉
...
...cumbersome cumbersome...
🙂

Agreed! Not simpler at all. I can remember burning CDs for backup on one early trip. That was cumbersome, especially as I had an external burner. Maybe there is a market for single-use write-once memory cards.