I had previously posted about a Classmate PC that I was borrowing from work for a short time. I returned it yesterday after having gone a couple of weeks without touching it. Before checking it back in, I powered it back up to make sure that I wasn’t leaving any personal data on it and the experience just reaffirmed my impressions of the Acer Aspire One being a far superior platform. The keyboard on the Classmate is just not large enough for adult hands, the non-standard key placement just drove me crazy, and I like the widescreen format of the Aspire One.
The fact that I could barely pry the Classmate out of the hands of my kids is a testament to the fact that it is great device for its intended audience. For non-touch typists with small hands, it’s a great device for authoring brief documents and doing some simple web research. In all, I think it’s a great little computer, just not for me.
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