Recently, a family member asked me to recover data off of a failed hard-drive in an Acer Aspire 3680. This was a $300 laptop at Wal-Mart several years ago. I was able to remove the drive and recover the data. Rather than go through the cost of upgrading the drive and the OS (it was running Vista and Win7 is much superior) we replaced it with a $300 unit from Best Buy with Win7 already installed. This left me with an old machine to play with...
I had upgraded the RAM in this machine a while back to 2GB and I happened to have 60GB Razor SDD handy from an earlier upgrade. This seemed to be a fine platform to test the usability of the current Ubuntu 11.10.
It installed perfectly, it sleeps, wakes up, controls the fan and WiFi works (almost) out of the box!
I use a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard and a Kensington roller ball with an LG 23" Flatron monitor and it rocks!
I go back and forth between this Acer and my new MacBook Pro when sitting at my desk (the MacBook is in use when I need to be portable).
Seriously a fantastic setup and I've considered traveling with it but the battery life is poor and it doesn't have iTunes (yes, I'm sort-of bought into the Apple ecosystem).
Anyway, I was so happy I had to share.
Scott
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