Tearing apart a netbook?

Have you ever seen a netbook (or notebook for that matter) that requires you to tear down the entire machine, taking out the motherboard completely just to change the RAM or Hard Drive? Yeah me neither. The RAM and Hard Drive are both sitting under the motherboard right at the bottom of the casing so why couldn't Acer have just put two simple trap doors there?

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Acer
• Aspire
• One
• Netbook
• Intel
• Atom
• RAM
• Hard
• Drive
• HDD

[classicmacintosh]

HDs generally get killed by magnetism...

Also get a MacBook or ThinkPad as AFAIK they have motion sensors to shut the HD off if you drop it. This works at the hardware level (at least it does for MacBooks - I don't know if ThinkPads do)

[MN12BIRD]

@classicmacintosh Yeah that feature is built right into the hardware of certain hard drives like the G-Force series from Seagate. They detect the G-Forces of a fall and quickly park the heads before it hits the ground.

[experimental0000]

I know they're not meant for much but you'd think they'd find a way to make them run faster cpu wise and add the trap doors on the bottom to change the hdd or ssd and ram like laptops do. while keeping it under $300. I've seen an 11.6 inch netbook but with laptop internals and it was $430 ish. for that price I'll just get a 15.6 inch laptop that has an easier to see screen

[MN12BIRD]

@experimental0000 Yeah I've seen other netbooks with the HD under a flap door or even under the keyboard witch is still much quicker and easier to change than this old Acer was. The Atoms aren't that bad they do have dual core Atoms now and AMD has the Neo single core K10 things that are in some of these now. Not sure if it's any faster it's about the same clock speed. I think it's just a matter of size, heat and battery life. They could cram a low power Ci3 in one I'm sure.

[TheNitrohp]

acer is popular but not the best netbook.......

[MN12BIRD]

I never said it was the best. It's one of the cheapest though. I like the Asus and Msi with the N280 and 9 cell battery :) but those cost much more of course.

[apeshitcharlie]

do you know how to open up a gateway lt2016u? it's supposedly the same as an aspire one but i cant get it open. i want to get to the fan and physically clean the fan.

[ImaginedWriter]

where is the fan on the aspire one d150 and how do i change it or at least clean it through the vents with compressed air?

[shteamroller]

thank you for the information - nice to see an expert in action....

[davidfordapple]

I'm typing on a netbook right now. Mine has 250gb though

[SEwalkman752]

netbooks suck! when i got my compaq netbook, the damn thing booked in 1 year, and so i was forced to return to my old deskop pc, hate those mili laptops ¬¬

[JAREDMICHALLE]

I agree about the placement of the Hard Drive,and not to mention how your supposed to get it out.It's stupid that you have to take the thing apart to get to the hard drive.Why not just have the hard drive readily removable.That way you could just get a new hard drive,then quickly swap it out.

[zzap999]

Mine right now won't start up. It powers up and has a weak fan noise.  I'm assuming the cpu fan is dying and causing the cpu to not work? There is no screen message saying "hard drive error". The screen won't even light up.