Acer Aspire One
The Acer Aspire One slams in at number 4, a machine that has potential to be top of the netbook world. Acer undoubtedly isn’t happy with fourth place, its come and buy me £199 UK price point and huge list of features shows Acer is a serious top spot contender.
Whats Hot:
It has a speedy 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU coupled with up to 1.5GB of RAM, an 8.9 inch WSVGA screen you can use even outdoors, a great keyboard, plus an optional HDSPA/3G module for true go anywhere Internet access. Storage starts at 8GB, thanks to a solid-state drive but can be upgraded to an 80GB unit if you need more storage. Brilliant!
Whats Not Hot:
This could easily have been the perfect 8.9 inch netbook and went straight in at No 1 slot, but… Acer went ahead and fitted a rubbish mouse system. Again, it’s one that has its selector buttons on either side of the track-pad instead of below it. It’s also worth a mention that the standard battery pack is a 2200mAh unit, which should give around 3 hours of life. The Acer Aspire One comes with only a 1year warranty; However, for the price of the machine we forgive you Acer.
When can i get it?
Any day now! Grab one quick as they should fly off the shelves.
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August 4th, 2008 at 2:14 am
Cheaper in the U.S. and Canada. Very good value. Screw the “bad” track pad…The thing is cheap and is well-designed. Half of the HP2133, which is nice, but too much.
February 9th, 2009 at 8:56 am
Managed to squeeze XP onto it. SSD sucks, the writes are damn slow. But got around it using RAMDISK. Go for a harddisk version.