Anyone has any tips for opening up an Acer Aspire One Netbook and inserting a SSD?

[Mrcricket]

I bought a SSD for an Acer Aspire One Netbook which had been lying at home.

The PC is about 9 years and was not used in many years (it was too painfully slow to use) though it still works and its physical condition is good. I unscrewed all the screws at the bottom but the bottom cover is still not coming off and there seems to be something hidden that is holding it in place.

I'm quite a newbie at these things so I'd appreciate advice on how to remove it.

 

[supersunbird]

In my experience (not with that model but generally opening various laptops), one then has to pry, with a plastic prying tool, open along whatever joint, slowly unclipping the clips holding it together bit for bit.

 

[chickenbeef]

Not really worth it. Those netbooks are too slow. I upgraded mine to an SSD and it didn't make much of a difference. The CPU is a huge bottleneck.

 

[saor]

https://www.google.com/search?ei=p9...BTItMi4xmAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpeg&sclient=psy-ab
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[backstreetboy]

Not really worth it. Those netbooks are too slow. I upgraded mine to an SSD and it didn't make much of a difference. The CPU is a huge bottleneck.

This. Luckily mine got stolen out of a car.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

too slow with those CPU's

 

[Exaelea]

 

[UrBaN963]

 

[Lupus]

In my experience (not with that model but generally opening various laptops), one then has to pry, with a plastic prying tool, open along whatever joint, slowly unclipping the clips holding it together bit for bit.

They're called spludgers or spudger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spudger