You wait ten years for an affordable but tiny notebook, and then three show up at once: hot on the heels of MSI's Wind and the Asus Eee 901, Acer's Aspire One has arrived in the lab. Like the Wind and 901, it's an Atom-powered mini notebook, but at £199 for the entry-level Linux model it's significantly cheaper.

First impressions are good: the 1,024x600 display is fine for web surfing, and the keyboard is larger and more usable than that of the the Eee 901. One clever feature is the second memory card slot: put a card in there, and its capacity is automatically added to that of the main SSD storage. The 2200mAh battery is rather small, but Acer's representative tells us that a six-cell version, that should run for seven hours, will cost £79.99.

As with the Eee 901, look out for the full Computeractive review and verdict soon.