Right now my fiance and I have a new 24" iMac desktop computer. The screen is HUGE! My HP laptop which was just over a year old crapped out on me really bad (of course, right after warranty is up) so we decided to buy the Acer Aspire One in Black. I wanted pink, but we have to share, so we got back. I ordered a cool skin for it off of
iStyles | Premium Fashion Accessories for iPhone, iPod, PSP, Nintendo, Blackberry, Treo, Gaming Consoles and more it's not in yet, so I can't comment on that.
Anyway, overall for the price it's a wonderful laptop! As for not having a CD drive, now you can put anything onto a USB thumb drive, or even an SD card. This laptop has 2 sd slots! So i wouldn't let that make your decision for you!
Another thing, if you want to upgrade the memory/RAM from 1GB, it's really simple. They have the square at the bottom cut out and screwed on, so you can just take it out and place the new ram in. You can always get a tech to do it as well, but it's always cheaper to do it yourself, and honestly, so so simple my grandma could do it! (Just a note, I bought 2GB of ram for my old crappy HP at future shop for $30 CAD, but didn't get to put it in because it quit working)
The hard drive space is amazing, my old HP laptop only had 80 GB and I still had a little less than half to fill and I download a lot of music and movies, and have a lot of files. The 160 GB is perfect, more than what I need for sure!
The keyboard takes some getting used to, but in a few hours you'll be fine!
I bought mine for $399 Canadian, they are only $299 US on amazon and walmart right now. For the price, you can't go wrong. You can take this thing anywhere! Plus, it's a great conversation piece right now! Hope this helps you!
PS - Stay away from HP, I have had problems with both of my HP laptops in the past! The first warranty work I had done on it was to fix the fried motherboard. Once that was fixed, to keep it from overheating, they cranked the fan. The fan quit working and that's why it quit this time, just after warranty ended. Clever them, hey! Jerks! Some may be good, but do your research and check reviews!