Acer Aspire One 532H: An example of the era 

I've admittedly browsed from time to time for an Aspire One. Specifically one of the models with the water drop ripple effect on the top cover. Something about that design along with a model that comes in a blue color really tugs at my desire, design wise. Good to know what lightweight distro to try now whenever I inevitably buy one.

Just fixed my MSI wind u180dx and upgraded it. It has a 64 bit atom processor, and now rocks a stick of 4GB DDR3 that it surprisingly supports despite the 2GB being the advertised limit. It now rocks peppermint 64bit, and I use it for general light tasks I still love the 10.1 inch form factor and it fits nicely in a small vertical messenger bag it's ridiculously portable and a joy to use because of it. Genuinely sad nothing else out there really replaces it today.

Way back in 2013 got this model as a hand-me-down. it is still working now except for the wifi module. I will be buying some parts to refurbish it and keep it alive although I already have a high spec laptop and a PC. Great to watch this video.

Great review! These were quite common among college students - along with the eeePC netbooks.

Nostalgic, thank you

I had the very first version of the Asus eeePC as well as the very first version of the Aspire One (model number AOA-150 AFAIR). I had it upgraded to 1.5 GB RAM. Amazingly it only died finally last year.

I have an aspire one ao150 (atom n270) since 2008 and still works it is well used and for basic tasks is acceptable (its dual boot lubuntu & windows 7). After all, these years it has live most of it life in my backpack, I had to replace many thinks like screens, hdds/ssds, rams, keyboards, batteries and even the shell because it started to disintegrate after all this abuse. Τhe good think is that, the machine is reliable and the parts cost next to nothing, I'm happy to say that now is fully serviced in tip top condition (even though I rarely use it). Nice video!

That blue ripple one was my dream laptop as a kid, it had a pentium unlike the atom netbooks and could run minecraft at 25fps haha! Never got it unfortunately, tempted to pick one up now

I remember having played with an Aspire One ZG5, with the worst Atom N270, with Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 ( aka Windows XP Pro ) and it was usable.

I still have one of these. Still works for office stuff with 2GB of ram. Puppy linux and Linux lite make it useful.

Also remember that Netbooks got popular because they got released right around the 2008 economic downturn, and many users penny-pinched their way into these devices. Even though the iPhone was already out, and Android was about to gain traction, mobile UX was still quite basic on those smartphones. As for the Aspire, as I commented on the Community post: by far the nicest-looking Netbooks were the Aspire Ones. I remember the model that had the bright orange accents on the hinges (ZG5) as being the one I wanted the most. So indeed, Netbooks were products of their time. They were so popular that even Intel pushed their Classroom PC initiative by basing it on this form factor (though the idea was to kill the OLPC initiative), and Lenovo entered the market with its ThinkPad alternatives: the X100/131 and current 11e line-up. Myself, I was impressed and enamored by the Atom SoC, the more I read about it. And the size... This was the best compromise between subnotebooks and the palmtop PCs of ye olde days... Even today I love 10, 11, 12-inch devices, and wish they'd stick around as a niche product instead of only existing as expensive toys the likes of GPDs devices; definitely I have these to blame for my preference towards ultraportable devices.

Sharp little machine, I like it.

I never understood how truly limited the netbook was (in today's times) until I took a look at some of the business ultraportables at the time. Something like a Latitude E4200 is a perfect example of this, as it feels that even Windows XP chugs on it with some of the original business suite drivers (like the fingerprint software) no longer working. My model had the "highest" spec of 3GB RAM and a U9600 and snagged it for $15 on ebay. They're just so different and so limited in so many ways.

While many claims that netbooks no longer exist, there are still some laptops that can be called a netbook due to the specs/size. Including those that use a celeron/pentium with an EMMC storage. You can try searching around for celeron/pentium laptops especially those which are 11.6 inch

Using it rightnow i upgraded it to window 7 ultimate 32bit and it works perfect

I still have a acer aspire one d250 with a atom n270. I upgraded the ram to 2 gb like 5 years ago but it is just so slow to use nowadays. It's a shame because I really like the form factor and my aspire one is still in really great shape.

i miss the netbook, i remember using this kind of laptop, using Windows XP and dualbooting it with Ubuntu 10.04. and i using this kind of laptop (or netbook) until 2019 before Ubuntu discontinued 32 bit support. and in the process, i already making like patchset for Linux kernel too for better netbook support and at least, it gives a little bit more performance.

Stick a docking connector (and build a dock for it of course) & a wwan card and im seeing a perfect servicable device for browsing and documents Edit: hadnt seen the mpcie slot yet.. Guarenteed that has potential as a WWAN slot

I'm literally buying this model today 😂

3:14 telling us to read it, which we won't 😂 what a rebel! 😉 😂😎

Is that a wood desk or a wood floor? My guess is the latter

now netbooks no longer exist for a few reasons. Tablets have taken over the netbook in the ultraportable market Now alot of powerful laptops including the X1 nano and XPS 13 are the same footprint as the netbooks that were available back then. I even did a comparison between an XPS 13, an older 13 inch notebook (Before the thin bezel era) and a netbook from 2008/2010

8:53 start 🏁 me up 👆 😂

I tried installing Windows 8 on one of these. Due to the 1024x600 resolution, the Acer rejected Windows 8 like a bad kidney.

Bionicpup 32 may be a better choice lol

Ah, remember that. No clamshells.

N450 still beter, I've N280 still running and used as thin client, word processor, code terminal, etc... hold 7 hours light work (can't do browsing, it's too heavy for that laptop, now days without i3 loading web is a hazzle)

I've had one of these exact machines sitting around for a long while. Quite frankly I never really liked it. The keyboard is too small, the screen is pretty bad, and even when it was new it was ungodly slow. There was no reason to buy one when cheap used machines could be had with competing battery life, superior keyboards, better screens, and far more power.