It is an Acer Aspire running Linpus not Windows.
I do have an identical machine which runs Windows so I might be able to swap batteries. I see no obvious battery compartment, so I imagine I have to open the unit.
What happened is I played with the OS, trying to install a diff version of Linux (Quantian/Knoppix/Debian) and ended up having to reinstall Linpus from CD. It may have needed a larger SD card as secondary disk - I got one but can't set it up just yet. So I didn't use it for about two years. It was fine before that. Linpus is a Fedora variant and I have run into repomd dependency chaos, so I might install a different OS, unless I can just run Java apps. But I can't play with the machine for a few months until the current project I am using it for ends.
I like the size of these Acer Aspire Ones. They are great as Notebooks for reading PDFs and writing notes, but not much else (too slow on XP, but linpus is quite fast - which actually promotes the Java options). I don't like the idea of carrying around something expensive in NYC. I had a similarly sized Compaq Aero 4/25 runnign DOS for ten years and I liked it for the same reasons, but it also had a bum battery (ev'tho I replaced batt) so I had to use it always plugged in in the living room. The LED died in 12/08 the same week my desktop LED screen also died (wierd, never figured, prolly some kind of solar storm, tho bothscreens died during light drizzle outdoors - no machines not wet).
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