This is a guide of how I installed retail Snow Leopard 10.6.1 on an Acer Aspire One ZG5. Creds to Neodymium for his Aspire One A150 Snow Leopard guide which helped me a lot.
What you need:
A working computer with Mac OS X 10.5+
An Acer Aspire One ZG5 (AOA150-BGw) with BIOS version 3310
A USB mouse
A USB drive or external hard drive. Minimum 8 GB
A retail copy of Snow Leopard Install DVD that you've bought (Not the Macbook "restore DVD")
Step 1)
Connect the USB drive (or external hard drive, though I will use the term "USB drive" in this guide) to your working computer. Open Disk Utility (Finder -> Utilities -> Disk Utility). Right click the drive you just attached and chose "Partition". Choose "1 partition" from the drop down list. Press "Options" and make sure it says "GUID Partition Scheme". Enter "OSX" as the name of the partition. Proceed.
Step 2)
Insert the Snow Leopard DVD or mount the image of it. Open...



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