Acer Apspire one hands-on: Glossy, colorful lid

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Not to be outdone by MSI, Acer just launched the Acer Aspire one (note lower case trend), a 8.9-inch laptop that weighs 2.2 pounds and runs Linux. Laptop has some red hot video from Taipei today and it looks about the same as everything else.