Acer intros 'pro' netbook

Acer has formally launched the Aspire One Pro 531, a "business class" version of the already rather corporate-styled Aspire One 531. Acer Aspire One 531 Pro Acer's Aspire One 531 Pro: business class, apparently To be honest, we think the regular 531 is better looking, and since both vanilla and Pro machines are an inch …

[A. H. O. Thabeth]

Too much HD size?

"The Pro also comes with a 250GB hard drive to the regular 531's 160GB HDD, but how much storage space do you need in a netbook, for heaven's sake?"

How much HD space is too much?

Please do let me know.

A.H.O. Thabeth

[Gary Walker]

1024 x 600 ?

What is the point?!

[Anonymous Coward]

More Trademarks!

A netBook Pro™?! Psion are going to go proper mental now...

[Tom Chiverton]

Linux ?

Is the hardware supported, at least ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Any word on whether they'd offer it with business class support?

We get a few people wanting a work-bought netbook for when they go travelling, and Dell have finally caught up and started offering us something viable with a suitable warranty (ie next business day, on site parts & labour, etc). Last time I checked Acer's offering, it was something like a 5-business-day collect-and-return job, which is an instant "no".

[jason]

Non-Gloss finish!!!! Thats worth the extra alone!

God I hate glossy finishes. Its just ...retarded...and dirty.

[Anonymous Coward]

Lost the plot?

Netbook - cheap, small, light....

Why bother, at the cost and weight of this one you can get a much better laptop. Marketing seem to be in a little world of their own on the recent 'netbooks'

[Anonymous Coward]

Missing 'n'.

All that extra storage space in a netbook can only mean one thing: this is the Pr0n bersion, not the Pro version.

[Keith T]

Netbook benchmark suggestion ---

Why not benchmark these netbooks by seeing how many Facebook and MySpace tabs you can simultaneously have open and still get good response.

And make it a realistic test, with all the standard updates for the O/S, and an up-to-date anti-virus installed.

If you get a netbook with 1GB of memory you are going to wish you had 2GB of memory by the end of the second week.