Archive for the ‘aspire one’ Category

Aspire One - SSD replacement speeds

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

I downloaded ATTO Disk Benchmark after reading a forum posting that showed someone else's speeds. So, here are my benchmarks. It's a 1.5Ghz, 16GB Sandisk Extreme III CF, TinyXP system. The card says 30mb/s, and that's pretty much what I was seeing

Aspire One - 16G Compact Flash upgrade

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

I finally bought a ZIF flip cable, and that solved all my problems, as I expected it would. The BIOS recognized the 16G Sandisk Extreme III compact flash card, and the red led light on the card blinked instead of staying lit. All those were good signs that I could ...

Writing about the same thing again - installing an OS

Monday, January 5th, 2009

I just can't make up my mind ... since I can't seem to get OS X installed on my Acer Aspire One, I've gone back and forth with linux operating systems. First I got Ubuntu 8.10 on there, then I added the "netbook remix", and things were fine and dandy. ...

Stubborn Aspire One hacking

Friday, December 12th, 2008

After accumulating several upgrade components, I decided that I'd try to hack my Acer Aspire One tonight. As much as I like the laptop, it is definitely not user friendly for any upgrade. The ease of adding memory to the Dell mini 9 is amazing. The freakishly long process to ...