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Acer Aspire One D257 RAM Upgrade

October 18, 2013 by TomBoyNI

The Acer Aspire One D257 is a capable netbook, but one of the choke points of the system is that it is supplied with 1Gb of RAM, this can be easily upgraded by the user to a maximum of 2Gb and this is one upgrade that I reccommend all users consider.

It is a fairly simple process that can be done without any issues by taking your time and being careful. It isn’t like your desktop where the RAM upgrade is almost foolproof, here you will need to undone some very delicate clips and leads, my best advice is :

1. Take your time.

2. Don’t force anything, if it is isn’t going, it won’t go.

Then my next bit of advice is watch this video, it isn’t mine, but I used it and it is very good and well explained :

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DiBKaS1s80&w=560&h=315]

From this video you will see that this can be broken down into a number of simple parts…

Acer Aspire One D257 Netbook Windows 8 Installation

October 18, 2013 by TomBoyNI

Acer Aspire One D257 Windows 8 Installation :

I have decided to add this as an individual post to make it easier for anyone looking for specific information in relation to installation of windows 8 on a netbook, so apologies for the double post.

They say it couldn’t be done! They say it wont work! I say, ‘Bring it on!’

Every one loves a challenge right? So here is the thing Windows 8 is out, I have it. It was on my Mac, I got rid of the Mac, so I had a licence of Windows 8. I wanted it on my netbook. It requires a minimum resolution of 768. My netbook has a resolution of 600. They say nothing will work, I say we will tell it to work!

If you are in the same position and have a 600 resolution netbook and would like to see what Windows 8 is like, it is entirely possible. The upscaled resolution would look completely polished but it is entirely usable and more importantly fully functional!

This machine comes with Windows 7 Starter Edition so the first thing to do is to make sure it is fully updated so run windows update.

– Now Install Windows 8 – as you would if upgrading any machine. Run the ‘Setup’ from the USB / media…Windows 8 will install.

Acer Aspire One D257 – Unboxing and Windows 8 Installation

October 18, 2013 by TomBoyNI

Recently whilst in the process of changing from my MacBook Pro to an iMac I went through a stage of being ‘computerless.’ In today’s modern era that’s just not an option! Couple this with a recent holiday to America during which I borrowed a friends netbook to use as a storage device for the bucket loads of photos and videos I took and found it to be a brilliant little device for this purpose. Every traveller should consider taking a netbook with them, couple with a portable HDD for backups it is the perfect solution for storing and viewing a large amount of photos. You can then obviously do basic editting, emailing etc, and the storage options you have are much greater than say for example a 16Gb or even 64Gb iPad. A netbook will have for example 320Gb of storage and a 1Tb portable drive can be picked up for reasonably sensible money now. Anyway I digress. I picked up a brand new net book on gumtree for the handsome of £100. The Spec of the Acer Aspire One is as follows :

So it has been a while…

August 7, 2013 by TomBoyNI

It has been quite some time since I posted anything here, with one thing and another I have just found time a little short to be catching up on my posts.

Not to worry though I have loads in the pipeline, including

1. A couple of new G-Shock unboxings.

2. An Acer Aspire D257 unboxing.

3. An Acer Aspire D257 RAM upgrade.

4. An Acer Aspire D257 running Windows 8 (Dual Booting)

5. A quick unboxing and review of a D-Link Powered 7 USB Hub

6. And loads more…

So make sure you subscribe to my blog, and also you can find me on YouTube under the username TomBoyNI.

Speak to you all soon!

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