Kemper_Boyd wrote:I've seen the Aspire One now. Very dinky and looks quite a bit nicer
than the Eee in my opinion. It booted very quickly. The screen is good,
but the trackpad is awful, small size and mad acceleration made controlling
the pointer very awkward. I hope that it's better with the acceleration
turned off.
I didn't find the size of the trackpad to be a problem myself, but I really dislike the location of the buttons - left and right of the trackpad rather than below it. The left button isn't too much of an issue as a single tap on the trackpad does the job - but it doesn't recognise tapping with two fingers as a right-click so you really do have to use the awkwardly positioned (and overly stiff) right button.
You can enable a full application menu in Linpus, rather than just the quick-launch app. Unfortunately there's no easy option to add that menu in the traditional bottom-left corner, Start Menu style. Instead it appears when you right-click on the desktop. This is a two-fold problem: it means that you have to use that crappy right button a lot, and it doesn't help if you're already running an application full-screen. Right clicking on the desktop might be okay on a full desktop machine, but with a small screen like this, it's a pain.
And I hate to think what contortions you would need to go through to fake a middle-click using both buttons at once. A fake-middle-click-and-drag could easily land you in hospital with dislocated fingers!
So yes, definitely a crappy trackpad. But otherwise it's a nice machine - especially at its new lower price. None of the machines that have been released (or announced) so far are perfect, but it's definitely one of the better contenders for the crown.
