Today, there is a comparison between 2 popular netbooks on the market now. First, it's Acer Aspire One, 8.9" screen, with the most reasonable price tag, $329 for regular version, and around $399 for bigger battery and hard drive which is the one here. Another one is MSI Wind, it comes with 10" screen, approx 1" extra from Acer Aspire One; However, they use the screen resolution. I believe it's such a tough call indeed.
Besides these 2 netbooks, I also stack this up with Fujitsu P7230, 10" screen sub-notebook with DVD burner and everything packs in it. You'll see how they are =)
Fujitsu P7230--top, MSI Wind on the left and Acer Aspire 1 on the right. Looks like they are almost the same right, huh?
Now you can see clearly that Acer Aspire One is really small. [Aspire on top, Wind in the middle, and P7230 as a base.]
Adapter size is varied by the output power: 60W, 40W, and 30W consecutively from left to right
Next, we will compare the netbooks together to see what the differences between these two.
They are almost the same size really!
Acer Aspire 1 could give you a little more space in your bag; that might be a deal breaker for someone.
Glossy vs matte screen: that's your choice of preference.
As you see, although Aspire 1 is smaller, the keyboard layout is so much better! At least, Acer let us know that we can really have usual keyboard on netbook, not only a handicap one.
I hope you would get an idea which one you like from these quick comparison. If you ask me between these two netbooks, I might take MSI Wind since I hate glossy screen, but the thing is I prefer more usable keyboard. I just hope newer netbook would follow what Acer has done here with the keyboard. Good job, Acer! [What a surprise since I rarely found I liked things Acer did.]