ACER Aspire One and the weird RAM thingees
July 9, 2008 by Kori Ellis
Filed under Computers
Recently got hold of an ACER Aspire One, ACER’s landmark device that marks its entry into the ultraportable market. So there they are with the likes of HP and ASUS. One thing’s weird though. In the tech specs of the Aspire, it says that with the bundled 1GB of RAM composed of two sticks of RAM, one half is actually soldered into the device while the other 512MB is expandable. Now here’s the thing – the RAM is expandable to a MAXIMUM of 1GB which means that you have an odd assembly of 1.5GB of RAM for an ultraportable. Damnit! Why create expandability options that only allow for half a gigabyte?
ALSO …. there seem to NOT be any way to remove the RAM chip and tampering may actually – *we’re speculating* – void the warranty.
i am teetering at a buying frenzy for a leneovo ideapad s10. and as you know it is one of the netbooks out there released in the market in the likes of Eee, MiniNote, Aspire, and Wind.
on my intensive research i also found out that lenovo 2Gb maximum expandability option only allows you ro upgrade up to 1.5Gb of RAM because the other 512MB is hidden somewhere in the mainboard. i found it to be a major letdown.
could it be because these netbook mainboards came from the same Taiwan manufacturer?
Interesting article. The Information Technology class at the technical school that I work for has experimented with ACER portables in the past and we’ve been happy with them, sans a few odd hardware issues. Sounds like they’re up to their same old tricks!
I bought an Acer Aspire One (AAO) this fall and within weeks the screen blacked out upon booting. Rather than replacing my AAO , Acer referred me to a technical repair depot. After 6 weeks still no word – then two weeks ago after calling Acer they said they would send me a new one on “back-order” – still no sight of it. Today when i called they said they have no idea when the “back-order” will be filled. Just wonderful customer support – not! Wish i had bought a MacBook now…..
Sorry, Remi. That’s a bummer. Customer service is hard to get unless we seem to be in their “chosen” list. I just don’t get it.
Regarding the thought about MacBook, if customer service is the only driver of that thought, read this: http://blog.davidglover.org/2008/11/surprisingly-poor-customer-service-from-apples-itunes-store.html
After buying the acer aspire one (winxp 120GB) – i will never ever again buy an acer product. Since a lot of my friends and relatives ask for my opinion before they buy a computer = i have told all of them to stay away from acer. They have lousy service and yet they did not make the aspire one easy to service yourself – changing the hard drive, add ram, extremely noisy ram and so many other issues
Service is at best avoided, Ramesh. A lot of them provide godawful service.
Merry Chrimstmas. :)