<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">John,<br><br>Here is a copy of my posting to this forum on 14 Nov 2008. I am still of the opinion that this is a brilliant little machine :-<br><br>"Rob,<br><br>You may remember replying to a post of mine last week about the Acer.<br><br>I
bought mine from a Tesco store for the same price as Tesco direct,
although it is cheaper at amazon and play.com. It has 1 GB ram and a
120GB hard drive. I installed Ubuntu eee (which is v8.04) via usb
stick and everything just worked. The only drawback is the volume of
the sound, some people might want it louder. There is a workaround,
but I understand v8.10, with a later version of alsa, will fix this so
it's not a problem for me.<br><br>Cheers,"<br><br>I have subsequently upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 with no problem. <br><br>Keith.<br><div> </div>---<br>Keith Bowerman,<br>Prestwood, south Staffs, England.<div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></div></div></body></html>