Acer Aspire One Packing madness

I ordered my AcerAspire One Netbook recently. And I love it! At just under 1kg light, it’s the perfect tool for everywhere browsing, blogging (this post is written on it). One of the first things I did when I received it in the post is install Debian Lenny on it, and it’s the coolest gadget since sliced bread.

But this not what I want to talk about.

I cleared my room out today, which included throwing out the box that my Acer Aspire One shipped in. My green conscious is slowly awaking in me, so I set about to pull all the little leaflets out of heir sleeves and bag, and sort the lot my material into the recycling boxes. That is when it hit me. Just how much stuff is there? As anyone who’s got their wits about them, I don’t read the manual to figure out how to plug it all together and get going, so I never looked any deeper into the box that was necessary to get put all the accessories. So it it never occored to me how much rubbish is in the box. There is a single sheet of licence agreement, wrapped in a LDPE wrapper and given some strength by adding a sheet of cardboard behind it.

Is that really necessary?

I tried to lay out the pieces that make out the pieces of packaging on my living room rug. Would you believe it? It doesn’t fit! I had to stack the several eaqally sized pieces on top of one another to make them fit. And the rug is 100 x 195cm!

Acer Aspire One Netbook Packaging

Here’s a complete list:

1. Outer Box – Shipping ?  Cardboard CB 89 x 32 cm
2. Inner Box – Product ? Printed Carboard CB 70 x 70 cm
3. Cardboard Spacer ? Cardboard White   CB  51.5 x 37 cm
4. Cardboard Spacer ? Cardbord White    CB 47.5 x 40 cm
5. Carrying Handle ? Plastic Clear LDPE 1.8 x 18 cm
   
6. Carrying Handle Locker ? Plastic Black HDPE 16.8 x 3.5 cm
7. Wrappeing Bag Netbook ? Clear Plastic with print LDPE 28.5 x 25 cm
8. Wrapping Bag Cables ? Clear Plastic LDPE 28.5 x 11.3 cm
9. Wrapping Bag Cables ? Clear Plastic with Seal PE-LD 29.3 x 11.8 cm
10. Wrapping Back Cables ? Red Pllastic LDPE 11 x 30 cm
11. Wrapping Bag Documents ? Clear Plastic    LDPE  34 x 20 cm
12. Wrapping Bag CD ? Clear Plastic with Sticker LDPE 13 x 21 cm
13. Wrapping Bag Documents ? Clear Plastic with sticker LDPE 21 x 15.5 cm
14. Cardboard Document Backing ? Recycled Carboard  x2  14.8 x 21 cm
15. Protector Screen ? Fiberous Sheet PP 24.5 x 14.5 cm
16. Documents Welcome Note ? Paper B Print WPP 26 x 23 cm
17. Documents Office List ? Paper Green Print        15 x 10.5 cm
18. Documents Addendum ? Paper B Print WPP 14.8 x 21cm
19. Documents Third Party Software Licence ? Paper B Print WPP 14.8 x 21 cm
20. Documents User License Note ? Paper Gloss B Print WPP 14.8 x 21 cm
21. Documents CD Booklet Recovery ? Paper B Print 12 Pages WPP 12 x 12 cm
22. Sleeve CD ? Paper and clear plastic 12.5 x 12.5 cm
23. CD -Recovery ? CD 12 cm
24. Documents Application Manual ? Paper B Print, Gloss Colour Print Cover 62 Pages WPP 21 x 14.9 cm
25. Documents Quick Guide ? Paper B Print, Gloss Colour Print Cover 8 Pages WPP 21 x 14.9 cm
26. Documents Booklet International Warrenty ? B Print, Gloss Cover Green Print, 44 Pages  WPP 13 x 9 cm
27. Documents Booklet Warrenty ? Green Print, Gloss Cover Green Print, 52 Pages (2 Pages per language)  WPP 21 x 10 cm

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