Macworld, the expo for new Apple and 3rd party products, will be January 5-9th. As usual, everyone is speculating about what new products might be coming. Computers The new 13.3″ MacBooks and 15″ MacBook Pros arrived September 2008, leaving the 17″ MacBook Pro still to be upgraded. The iMac is expected to get a big
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Our current favorite small netbook, the Acer Aspire One, is now the #1 selling netbook according to 3Q sales numbers as reported by DisplaySearch. We expect competition to become only more fierce with companies continuing to flood the market with new models. Over the past week we just saw major price reductions from Lenovo whose
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The Aspire One currently ships with BIOS 3301 even though there is a later version. Unfortunately, they do not provide very good instructions on how to upgrade or exactly what the new BIOS fixes. The rumor is improved fan control. To install the update, perform the following steps. Create a FreeDOS bootable USB flash drive
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Aspire One Upgrade Options The Acer Aspire One comes with 1GB of RAM and a 160GB SATA Hard Drive. For an idea of its performance, please check out this video. RAM can be upgraded to 1.5GB by replacing a 512MB stick with 1GB. We recommend the Kingston PC2 4200 1GB Laptop Memory. The hard drive can
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