Comments on: Acer Aspire One AO751h reviewed http://www.aspireoneuser.com/2009/06/28/acer-aspire-one-ao751h-reviewed/ Acer Aspire One user resource site - laptop netbook forum blog news reviews hacks mods Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:53:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: inhackercom http://www.aspireoneuser.com/2009/06/28/acer-aspire-one-ao751h-reviewed/comment-page-1/#comment-433 inhackercom Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:18:43 +0000 http://www.aspireoneuser.com/?p=515#comment-433 Initially the wireless networking was very sluggish, and the system locked up frequently - requiring a power off and reboot. A visit to Acer's website yielded lots of new drivers and a new BIOS. After installing these the networking was much improved, but the system continued to lock up on a regular basis. <a href="http://inhacker.com" rel="nofollow">Laptop computer sales</a> Initially the wireless networking was very sluggish, and the system locked up frequently – requiring a power off and reboot. A visit to Acer’s website yielded lots of new drivers and a new BIOS. After installing these the networking was much improved, but the system continued to lock up on a regular basis. Laptop computer sales

]]> By: woodard http://www.aspireoneuser.com/2009/06/28/acer-aspire-one-ao751h-reviewed/comment-page-1/#comment-425 woodard Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:11:35 +0000 http://www.aspireoneuser.com/?p=515#comment-425 The reviewer failed to mention that the AO751h actually ships with 2G RAM and a 250G SATA hard drive. The slower CPU bugs me. I just don't get it. It makes no sense to put a more demanding OS(Vista) on a machine and ship it with a less powerful CPU. It's be tantamount to spec'ing an International Lonestar with a Ford Powerstroke engine. It might get the job done, but it's going to be a long, painful drive. The bloatware, while a pain to get rid of, is to be expected from any almost OEM. Both problems are remedied by an installation of Slackware. It'll take a bit of work, but you'll get a more resource-friendly OS and the bloatware(including Vista) goes away. With Intel providing proper graphics drivers in recent X releases, graphics shouldn't be a problem. Will update. The reviewer failed to mention that the AO751h actually ships with 2G RAM and a 250G SATA hard drive.
The slower CPU bugs me. I just don’t get it. It makes no sense to put a more demanding OS(Vista) on a machine and ship it with a less powerful CPU. It’s be tantamount to spec’ing an International Lonestar with a Ford Powerstroke engine. It might get the job done, but it’s going to be a long, painful drive.
The bloatware, while a pain to get rid of, is to be expected from any almost OEM.
Both problems are remedied by an installation of Slackware. It’ll take a bit of work, but you’ll get a more resource-friendly OS and the bloatware(including Vista) goes away.
With Intel providing proper graphics drivers in recent X releases, graphics shouldn’t be a problem.
Will update.

]]> By: inhackercom http://www.aspireoneuser.com/2009/06/28/acer-aspire-one-ao751h-reviewed/comment-page-1/#comment-423 inhackercom Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:39:56 +0000 http://www.aspireoneuser.com/?p=515#comment-423 Pros: - Beautiful screen with great horizontal viewing angles - Full-size keyboard - Lightweight (2.7 lbs with three cell battery) - Only slightly larger than many 10" netbooks and significantly thinner than many of those 10" models - Very sharp looking machine - Reasonably solid in terms of build quality Cons: - Slower 1.33 GHz processor - Flash videos from YouTube and Hulu are choppy (dropped frames and stuttering). This is a problem with most netbooks, but a little worse here because of the 1.33 GHz processor. - three cell battery only gives a bit over 3 hrs of runtime (the 6-cell would fix this, but would stick out of the rear of the case a bit) - touchpad rocker button is harder to push than it should be - touchpad surface has some drag (turn the pointer speed up to help with this) - keyboard keys are very flat (I got used to this and grew to love the keyboard, others may object). - arrow keys are tiny, despite full-size keyboard - ships with lots of bloatware and trial software pre-installed - Graphics chipset is not Linux friendly. Don't expect full graphics acceleration in Linux anytime soon. - Fingerprints show easily on the glossy case Pros:
- Beautiful screen with great horizontal viewing angles
- Full-size keyboard
- Lightweight (2.7 lbs with three cell battery)
- Only slightly larger than many 10″ netbooks and significantly thinner than many of those 10″ models
- Very sharp looking machine
- Reasonably solid in terms of build quality

Cons:
- Slower 1.33 GHz processor
- Flash videos from YouTube and Hulu are choppy (dropped frames and stuttering). This is a problem with most netbooks, but a little worse here because of the 1.33 GHz processor.
- three cell battery only gives a bit over 3 hrs of runtime (the 6-cell would fix this, but would stick out of the rear of the case a bit)
- touchpad rocker button is harder to push than it should be
- touchpad surface has some drag (turn the pointer speed up to help with this)
- keyboard keys are very flat (I got used to this and grew to love the keyboard, others may object).
- arrow keys are tiny, despite full-size keyboard
- ships with lots of bloatware and trial software pre-installed
- Graphics chipset is not Linux friendly. Don’t expect full graphics acceleration in Linux anytime soon.
- Fingerprints show easily on the glossy case

]]> By: Abe http://www.aspireoneuser.com/2009/06/28/acer-aspire-one-ao751h-reviewed/comment-page-1/#comment-419 Abe Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:05:31 +0000 http://www.aspireoneuser.com/?p=515#comment-419 I am annoyed that the netbooks with high-res screens always seemed to be paired with the slower Atom processors. Is Intel imposing some kind of rules on netbook manufacturers to cripple netbooks that might compete too well against traditional laptops? Dell's Mini 10 has the same issue as this new AspireOne. I would love to see a 10 or 11 inch high-res screen paired with a dual core 1.66 Atom. And I could imagine the price point wouldn't be lower than the bottom range for 15-inch bargain laptops. I am annoyed that the netbooks with high-res screens always seemed to be paired with the slower Atom processors.

Is Intel imposing some kind of rules on netbook manufacturers to cripple netbooks that might compete too well against traditional laptops?

Dell’s Mini 10 has the same issue as this new AspireOne.

I would love to see a 10 or 11 inch high-res screen paired with a dual core 1.66 Atom. And I could imagine the price point wouldn’t be lower than the bottom range for 15-inch bargain laptops.

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