I agree – the Aspire One is not as good by quite a way as the NC10.
Like I say though, if your budget is £200 then it’s a very good choice – the extra £100 that buys you the NC10 doesn’t sound like a lot, but percentage wise it’s a massive amount more!! I think yes, for those who can stretch to £300 the NC10 wins hands down no questions asked. For £200 though, your choice is pretty limited and I say hats off to Acer for offering one at that price.
You’re obviously better off waiting until you can afford the extra £100 for the NC10, but say you bought a netbook for a child to use on the internet and email (I’m not a father btw so don’t know if that’s particularly likely or not!) then the Acer might be perfect and in effect saving you a pointless extra £100 which buys more spec but which wouldn’t be made use of.
An interesting addition to this point would be if there was an NC10 available with only 512ram, Linux and a small SSD. If that was £200 then the aspire would lose for the aforementioned points; screen size, keyboard, build etc. BUT there isn’t an NC10 for that money or spec so I wouldn’t rule the Acer Aspire One out yet!