In case, anyone missed it, Best Buy will have the same model on sale August 24.

$100 discount possible for some folks.

Link to other thread

does anyone know where I can buy the new 6-cell model with the 160 gb harddrive for $399.00 announced today?
The model umber is AOA150-1447 and it isn't showing up on Amazon or Newegg yet. I even called Circuit City and they have no idea...

sandiegoperry said:does anyone know where I can buy the new 6-cell model with the 160 gb harddrive for $399.00 announced today?
The model umber is AOA150-1447 and it isn't showing up on Amazon or Newegg yet. I even called Circuit City and they have no idea...

They're on their way...on a boat from China.

Personally, I think Acer just announced this to counter Lenov's S10 annoucement earlier in the week.

received my acer one today and typing on it

so far, im very impressed with the quality of the netbook, it feels quite solid. At $360, i'm very happy with it. If you can get it lower at $250, by all means, go and grab one.

datboyvinh said:can the acer aspire one be upgraded with DDR2 667 (PC2 5400) or DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)?

and is it recommended?

Why bother? Look elsewhere if you want a gaming rig.

Hard to imagine with it out of stock lots of place that they are reducing the price on these, about $50, There are links in the other thread, engaget and Cnet? have reported this, so I sent an Email to customer support to see if they will provide a 6 cell battery or credit toward a 6 cell battery, or some compensation. I may return it if not and wait on the 6 cell 160gb version (another 6 weeks?)

With a price reduction and a lot of places OOS, there must be a lot of these in the pipe line!

Perhaps others who have purchased will also Email or call CS.

I was somewhat worried, I contacted Acer hopeing they would issue some sort of credit, they of course haven't responded, sure their busy.

JR now has this in stock at $369.99, might just get a price adjustment for the $30 and roll the dice, I did upgrade shipping to 2 day and that has not screwwed the Live rebate, yet...

TheSteelCurtain said:Canceled this laptop order and decided to get an Asus EEE PC. I love it so far, except 6 cell battery claims 7.5 hours, expect about 4 hours. and the screen isn't as bright and clear as I'd like it to be, but for $500, I can't complain. Got in on the 2.5inch 320gb hd from Buy.com for $87 and hdcloned it for a pretty good system. Touchpad could also use a little work in my opinion, but overall, I'm happy for $500 ultraportable.

Might reconsider the aspire one, they have anounce a 6 cell version 1gb ram 120 or 160gb HD version at $399, the screen is fine (great veiw ability side to side, less range up and down) The extended battery is/will be soon around $100 on some canada site now for preorder. Either way I would check out Simple 250gb portable HD's if you missed out at $30 closeout at BB look on eBay. I've picked up severeral for $50-55 each new sealed from people reselling them, keep checking, nothing currently less than $70 but check the history and you'll find sellers selling 5-10 at a time.

Too bad you can't boot from the SD slot on the HD version, but I'll have a linux usb bootable incase the HD fails.