Netbook Upgrade
I'm not usually into buying things before anyone else, but 4 years ago I took a punt and bought my wife one of the very first Acer netbooks as a birthday present. This was the first serious netbook with a 9-inch screen after the 7-inch Asus which had arrived about a year before. The Asus screen was just too small for a computer although it paved the way for all sorts of things including OEM distribution of Linux. The Acer A110 had 512Mb of RAM and an 8Gb solid-state drive, which some people predicted wouldn't last (they have been proved very wrong). After 2 years constant use the wee Acer was replaced with a new one with more memory and a hard disk drive, but I always fancied upgrading it. The computer was pretty hard to upgrade as it had to be completely taken apart and one internal tiny Phillips screw was very tight. In the end it needed to be removed by cutting a slot across it with a MiniCraft drill fitted with a circular cutting blade and then using ...