Acer Aspire One review

Acer Aspire One comes in laptop world, because smalls and smarts laptops now are on the way. Most powerful competitor is Asus with Eee PC. Both notebooks are small, cheap and nice designed. Site is about Acer, so my review about Acer Aspire One.

Size
This little one is 9.8 x 6.7 x 1.14 inches size and weights over two pounds. You can take him with one hand and don’t be afraid that you let Aspire One to fall. He’s really light.

Display

8.9-inch 1024×600 LED-backlit Crystal Brite display. In this aspect Aspire One is like as Asus Eee PC. But if  I need small laptop I will choose this. View looks great, it’s colorful and bright. Sad, but Acer haven’t integrated touch-screen display. It will be much easier to control notebook.

Soft

When you buy this computer, you must know some details about software in it. Acer Aspire One has highly modified Acer Linux (Acer smartfile manager, home page navigator), but you can use and Windows Xp. I heard rumours about one man, who installed in this mini computer OS X. Nice opportunities.

Hardware

Intel Atom Processor N270 (1.6 GHz). It looks good from Acer. Chipset: Intel 82945GMS + Intel 82801GBM. 512 MB of RAM, 8 GB SSD of disk space. Now we will stop. Here Acer made a big mistake. I will integrate min. 10 GB of disk space. Don’t understand that SSD costs around £30, ~60USD. But Acer is planing to fix this mistake. Acer plans to bring out a host of variants in the coming months. The Windows XP version will be first and offers 80GB of hard drive space. Without all this hardwares you will find WiMax, 3G, LAN and other good stuff. For example: 5-in-1 cardreader, SD slot, 3xUSB, VGA, RJ-45, headphone/lineout, microphone, Acer CrystalEye webcam. Power: 3 cell, 2200 mAh, 30 W AC adapter. Acer shows us very good results and they are beating Asus Eee PC or Dell Mini Notebook.

So if I will choose a mini notebook, my choice will be Acer Aspire One. It’s cheap and price isn’t big.