xIHammerIx
October 6th, 2008, 04:59 AM
Hello All,
I have a friend who just bought an Acer AOA150-1178 that will come with Windows XP. The plan is to add an Ubuntu partition. I have made the LiveUSB stick and that works perfectly on my laptop Dell Inspiron 9300. My question is will the hardware in the Acer support Ubuntu (I'll list the specs below)? I don't foresee any troubles, however, the only reason I ask is I am very unfamiliar with the hardware in these mini notebooks. I had another friend who tried this earlier in the summer and wound up not being able to get an OS back on to his hard drive (different type of laptop, mini HP if I remember correctly. I guess my biggest hang up is not knowing if the processor architecture is supported by Ubuntu as well as the motherboard chipset. I really appreciate any and all input!
Thanks,
Hammer
Specs
Model
Brand Acer
Series Aspire one
Model AOA150-1178
Part# LU.S450B.008
General
Color Pink
Operating System Windows XP Home
CPU Type Intel Atom N270(1.60GHz)
Screen 8.9" WSVGA
Memory Size 1GB DDR2
Hard Disk 120GB
Graphics Card Intel GMA950
Video Memory shared memory
Communication LAN and WLAN
Battery Life Up to 2.5 hours
Dimensions 9.8" x 6.7" x 1.1"
Weight 2.3 lbs.
CPU
CPU Type Intel Atom
CPU Speed N270(1.60GHz)
CPU FSB 533MHz
CPU L2 Cache 512KB
Chipset
Chipset Intel 945GSE
Display
Screen Size 8.9"
Wide Screen Support Yes
LCD Features LED backlight & Acer CrystalBrite Technology
Display Type Wide SVGA
Resolution 1024 x 600
Operating Systems
Operating System Windows XP Home
Graphics
GPU/VPU Intel GMA950
Video Memory Shared system memory
Graphic Type Integrated Card
Hard Drive
HDD 120GB
Memory
Memory Speed DDR2 533
Memory 1GB
Memory Spec 512MB onboard/512MB SODIMM slot
I have a friend who just bought an Acer AOA150-1178 that will come with Windows XP. The plan is to add an Ubuntu partition. I have made the LiveUSB stick and that works perfectly on my laptop Dell Inspiron 9300. My question is will the hardware in the Acer support Ubuntu (I'll list the specs below)? I don't foresee any troubles, however, the only reason I ask is I am very unfamiliar with the hardware in these mini notebooks. I had another friend who tried this earlier in the summer and wound up not being able to get an OS back on to his hard drive (different type of laptop, mini HP if I remember correctly. I guess my biggest hang up is not knowing if the processor architecture is supported by Ubuntu as well as the motherboard chipset. I really appreciate any and all input!
Thanks,
Hammer
Specs
Model
Brand Acer
Series Aspire one
Model AOA150-1178
Part# LU.S450B.008
General
Color Pink
Operating System Windows XP Home
CPU Type Intel Atom N270(1.60GHz)
Screen 8.9" WSVGA
Memory Size 1GB DDR2
Hard Disk 120GB
Graphics Card Intel GMA950
Video Memory shared memory
Communication LAN and WLAN
Battery Life Up to 2.5 hours
Dimensions 9.8" x 6.7" x 1.1"
Weight 2.3 lbs.
CPU
CPU Type Intel Atom
CPU Speed N270(1.60GHz)
CPU FSB 533MHz
CPU L2 Cache 512KB
Chipset
Chipset Intel 945GSE
Display
Screen Size 8.9"
Wide Screen Support Yes
LCD Features LED backlight & Acer CrystalBrite Technology
Display Type Wide SVGA
Resolution 1024 x 600
Operating Systems
Operating System Windows XP Home
Graphics
GPU/VPU Intel GMA950
Video Memory Shared system memory
Graphic Type Integrated Card
Hard Drive
HDD 120GB
Memory
Memory Speed DDR2 533
Memory 1GB
Memory Spec 512MB onboard/512MB SODIMM slot