Old Acer Aspire One

[Gravdigr]

So, Popdigr came up with this Acer netbook, an Aspire One. I've spent hours, and hours, and hours cleaning the junk programs, and bloatware out of this thing.

I'm now bald.

It's got more worthless games than I've ever seen. It had 11,452 cookies. No kidding, that's the actual number. Seven trojan horses, two trojan horse downloaders.

I got to looking through some of the sites the previous owner visited. Adam4Adam.com stood out, visited quite a few times.

I have to admit the touchpad is taking some getting used to. I didn't know touchpads did all this shit. I finally got most of the pad "regions" turned off. I left the rightside region for page scrolling, but, it's driving me mad. I can't keep my fat finger out of there, so, when I try to move the cursor, sometimes the page takes off on me and I get lost. Popdigr was going back pages and pages, then forward several pages. It's quite maddening if you didn't know it did all these other things.

In the beginning, it took forever and a day to boot up, and you still couldn't use the thing for like ten minutes, while umpteen windows and warnings and ads kept opening. They had all kinds of useless shit in this little thing.

Boot time is down to about a minute, and the only thing that pops up now is the wireless network search results. Everything seems to work ok, for the moment...

It has some battle scars: One corner cap missing, where the screen meets the chassis, along with the screw that goes there; three screws out of six that hold the bottom on are missing; the plug for the computer end of the charging cable has some kind of fitment issue; and the battery doesn't want to hold a charge for as long as it should.

Not a bad find, all in all, I guess, for $55 out the door. Good job, Pop.



Posted using our new-to-us Acer Aspire One. And xanax.