It's a nice netbook, with it's Atom at 1.6GHz, 512MB of RAM and super fast 8GiB SSD - it's really very fast, you really don't want an HDD with the Acer One - and it can be had for less than 180eur. There's one detail about the Acer One that set's it apart from many laptops: it can bend the screen a lot.
At least this much. This makes it very comfortable to read as a book, a good amount more then typical netbooks that don't allow you to bend it as much - with these, there is a high change they will give a Quasimodo hunchback. The keyboard is still too small, but for reading it is a very good device.
The new Eee 1004DN is a new netbook from ASUS that features an intregrated DVD drive, an Atom N280 and the new GN40, which provides better graphics, hardware HD video decoding and... a smaller battery life. You can still get about 5 hours with light usage and more than 3 hours with heavy usage, which is not that bad, it's just not up to Eee 1008HE or Apple's MacBook standards of around 8 hours.
Still it may be a good compromise for you, given the new chipset and the whole hardware HD video decoding thing.
The great detail tough, is the same ability to rotate the screen back imensely:
Ergonomics of ASUS Eee PC 1004DN is, also, very good. Cover can be opened almost at 180 degrees, much more than almost all newer netbooks that we tested so far.
You can be sure about that. Even though netbooks have mostly grown to 10", this is probably the only way you can spend a decent amount of hours with one. Trying to use a screen that doesn't tilt into a book like position will force you to adapt to the lower angle of the screen, causing you some back problems. If you have the chance to try both approachs, you will readily understand what I mean.
Sadly, the accomodation of the DVD drive required the use of a slow 1.8" 4200RPM HDD. This is one of the few faults of an otherwise very interesting netbook.
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