You’re loss - I personally wouldn’t allow preconceptions about build quality to prejudice against buying a particular manufacturers product.
Read the reviews and make an objective choice.
On features alone the AA1 is generally considered to be the 2nd best Netbook, beaten only by the Samsung NC10.
Though as the Samsung NC10 costs almost twice as much, it isn’t really a direct competitor.
its kinda about trust
i just bought many acer products and saw people buying them and those products would just break
especially with notebooks
and everytime I look for something cheap in this area Acer is first, cheapest, and I always think “yeah, I know why”
just a bad feeling =P
well my hp turned out to be a lemon… I don’t know for every day use buy a business laptop not a consumer one.
That being said; I’ve seen some pretty bad things with acer laptops. stuff that melds ain’t a good thing.
there is actually that joke around here “with acer you dont get a warranty, you get a lifespan”
because they break down after the warranty is over of course
I thing that it is a Java market place
many netbooks come with dual boot (i have dropped the xp away) and you need cross platform architectures
Netbooks has new opportunities for casual game developers
but nothing can beat MAME…
MAME’s great except for the one small issue usually overlooked by rose-tint bespectacled nerds such as ourselves, which is that every single game you can play on MAME is utter crap.
Discuss.
Cas 
I bought a Linux eee PC, within 3 or 4 months I had removed Xandros and put on Windows Server 2003. Never looked back. Lots of retailers also find that Linux machines have far higher return rates, complaints and issues with support (I believe it was MSI who had an internal report where their Linux machines had double the return rate). So people want Windows, not Linux.
Developing commercial games for a Linux platform is also nothing new, there are several companies paid to port mainstream titles to the OS. But it’s a tiny niche section of the games industry creating games for a tiny niche OS (niche for desktops). There is very little money in it. Plus the majority of Linux users aren’t that interested in games (or at least not as much as the typical Windows users).
Another issue for me is that I’ve always found Java runs consistently best on Windows (for example the not too recent Direct3D pipeline for Java2D), and Windows machines are typically the best setup (they typically always run the Sun JVM and always have good graphics drivers installed). I’ve also had the least number of OS specific bugs on Windows. So I’d prefer to target netbooks running Windows then Linux.
Chrome OS might swing it. But currently it looks like any other Linux distro, except with Chrome.
a java mame probably
lol
It is not that we are not interesting about games
this can be proven by the open source game development teams that develop linux games
The difference is at the age of linux users
most of uss learned Linux when we where grown up men ( learned at 19) and we do not spend so muc money about games as kids do
Linux no has only the 10% of desktop market
still it is not a good idea to develop games for it but it is not bad to port one on this
Doom 3 and Unreal tournament had profits
Chrome is not a new operating system (even if google promotes that as if it was) it is just Linux
it is the Google’s Linux distribution nothing less and nothing more