We’re rounding up our list here pretty quickly and here we are at the Acer Aspire One Mini Notebooks. I will be jump right in and be honest, so far in my comparison shopping this is the mini I’m leaning towards buying for myself.

Acer knocks everyone else out of the park with it’s USB ports on both sides, an SD card reader on one side, and a multicard reader on the other side. Most of the minis only have an SD card reader and one or two USBs. This was a big plus for me since I’m always plugging in a flash drive, charging an MP3 player, transferring data, or using my headset. Admittedly I won’t be doing all those things when I’m using the mini, but it’s good to know that I can if I want to!

Here you’ll find that 8.9 inch popular sizing again, and we’ve got another lightweight at just above 2 pounds. I have seen these available with both XP and Vista, so it’s nice to see some options cropping up. Personally, I would choose the XP, because that is what I have on my desktop computer at home and also I would guess that XP runs a bit faster on these smaller machines.

Acer rakes in some more bonus points from me because this machine is functional and stylish with plenty of color choices for you to pick from, including the shiny dark blue shown here. Lots of USB ports, shiny fun colors, multicard reader, 1gb of ram (compared to the 512mb of most minis) and the battery life of almost 6 hours scores big huge bonus points! Considering my current laptop barely makes it two hours on dim backlighting I’d love to have a nice long battery life on my portable.