UI design for mini laptops: FAIL

I've been using the AA1 for about a day now and one thing I noticed is
that there is no UI/OS system that is optimized for these small, rather
wide, screens.

See the screenshot. Notice all menus buttons and texts are in on the
top and bottom of the window? For a screen with a resolution that is
almost twice as wide as it is tall (in my case 1024x600px) this is not
the best way to present a UI. In Office it is even worse (see the
second screenshot), leaving almost no room for the actual content.

Here's an idea: remove the menus, use buttons with contextual texts and
place them to the side. preferably even collapsible. Also, please (and
that goes for every OS actually) get rid of these window bars, make
them smaller, movable (to the side maybe), a bit like tabs.. hangon..
BeOS/Haiku has that :)

Anyway, lovin' my AA1, but the UIs are not well thought-out..

Hmz.. BeOS on AA1..

I wonder if it'll work. I just remembered I have an original BeOS R5 (and R3, 4) distro lying around. I think BeOS would be _the_ best OS for the AA1. But I guess the machine is too modern for it, and Haiku isn't ready enough yet. Let's just see and try. Deja Vu:

Welllllll, it seems someone has been successful in installing Haiku on the AA1.>

It's here

Acer Aspire One. Looks ok, very small, keyboard is also sub-sized so it needs some practice to work on this thing.
First to-do: install a good OS on it. Like g-OS or OneLinux. Second to- do: install the best OS on it: OSX.

-- Sent from my iPhone