Linux MINT on an Acer Netbook

I had an old Acer Aspire One with an Intel Atom processor. Since the notebook is an old model with an SD card as a hard drive, it was pretty slow and became obsolete. The last user was my Dadi (paternal grandmother) who used Skype on it to talk to my aunts abroad. Since my Dadi hadn't used a computer before, therefore she wasn't as frustrated with the slow speed of this netbook as any other user would be. Then she bought an iPad and the netbook became obsolete.

I really wanted to do something with it and tried installing Arduino but on windows it was almost impossible to use with its slow interface. I looked online for something to do with it and found that Linux Mint is a good distribution to use with the Acer netbook. I followed a few tutorials and installed Linux mint on it. It became quite a useful notebook which I could use for simple browsing and checking emails. Here are some pictures of the Acer Aspire One Netbook which is doing very well as an email checking device for boring meetings. With a battery backup of around 1.5 hours, its a perfect companion to play games during boring meetings.

It has the following specifications.

Acer Aspire One usual specifications:

• 1.6GHz N270 Intel Atom Processor.
• 1GB DDR2 533MHz.
• Windows XP Home SP3.
• 8.9″ 1024 x 600 WSVGA glossy LED backlit display.
• 120GB 2.5″ 5400RPM Hitachi Hard Drive (with SDHC storage expansion slot)  Mine has 16GB SD storage (which made it really slow with Windows XP)
• 802.11b/g Atheros Wireless.
• 3-Cell 23Wh battery.
• Size: 9.75″ x 6.625″ x 1.28″

Here is a demo video in action. Next step installing and running Doom for those boring departmental meetings.