Yesterday I popped into PC World and had a look at the Aspire One which was handily placed next to the EEE PC 901. To test the keyboards, I just typed in “the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog” and made more errors on the EEE PC than Aspire One. I guess the larger keyboard does make a difference. The 8.9″ screen on both machines were surprisingly useable. The picture quality on both machines seemed fairly similar, but with the Aspire One on Linpus and the EEE PC on XP, I couldn’t find two identical images to see which had the better range of colours.
Out of these two, I’d pick the Aspire One. We’ll wait and see what else is on the market in the coming weeks/months.
Tags: consumerism, netbooks, wish list