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The battle of the mini-notebooks heats up. We get our first peek at Acer's new pint-sized Eee PC challenger, the Aspire One. UPDATE: Acer have contacted us to say the Australian shipment of the Aspire One XP model will come with 120GB storage as opposed to 80GB in the original specs. While the Eee PC has been turning heads for some time, it's got a battle on its hands with the Aspire One. We've seen a bucketload of tiny portables recently, and our first impressions of this sub-1kilo unit is that the Aspire One should be on your shopping list. For a cheap machine, the Aspire One looks classy. The build quality has none of that plastic, lightweight feel we get from some competitors (hello DreamBook IL1). It's also under 1Kg (for the Linux version), claims a 7 hours battery life, and comes with Windows XP or Linux. The killer... [read full story]
