I don’t own an iPod, nor do I have satellite radio, but I’m otherwise technologically up to date. For $250 at BJ’s Wholesale Warehouse, I bought an Acer Aspire One netbook, running XP Home with 1 GB of memory and a 160 GB drive.
I’m very impressed. Everything runs smoothly, including video that sputtered a bit on the SSD version of the Aspire One that I tried last week. This post was done entirely on the netbook, except shooting the video clips; which, come to think of it, I might have been able to do with the built-in Webcam and a mirror!
Here are some examples of video playback. First, from this page on my blog.
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One of the things I wanted to do with the Acer Aspire One was manage my Netflix queue for the Roku Media Player, but Watch Instantly also plays fine on the netbook. Here’s a bit of Supersize Me on Netflix Watch Instantly.
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