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Most unusual, though, is support for ATI’s XGP technology. XGP, for those who don’t know or recall, was announced last year. On paper it’s a very cool technology, enabling the use of external graphics solutions to be connected via the propriety port. Since it uses its own port, XGP isn’t limited by the bandwidth of an ExpressCard slot like similar products.
Unfortunately, XGP has never really taken off and we can’t see the Ferrari One sparking any revival. Innovative as the technology might be, it really needs to be applied to something with more all-round abilities than a netbook-cum-affordable ultra-portable. Moreover, its presence, we assume due to the size of the port, means there’s no integrated HDMI port, which would prove more useful.
Particularly since the ATI integrated graphics is more than useless. Like the much hyped nVidia ION platform, it can decode 1080p video smoothly, with no dropped frames and minimal jitter. Depending on the source material it normally does this with around 50 to 60 per cent CPU utilisation, so it’s a shame you can’t stream audio and video to a TV or monitor through one cable, as an HDMI would allow.
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“Acer Aspire One 751 is intended toward users that find standard netbook resolution insufficient, but also like better keyboard, that allows comfortable typing. If you recognized yourself in previous sentence, than Acer Aspire One 751 can offer a lot. On the other hand, this model is not perfect and has few minor problems, but let’s go back to square one.
If you really like ultra-portable netbooks than Acer Aspire One 751 is not for you. Larger display resulted in equally larger chassis, but luckily not in thicker chassis, which makes this model one of the thinnest that we saw so far. It is so thin, that D-Sub and LAN connectors are located at its thickest segment: at upper edge, close to cover hinges. On the other side, thanks to its thin profile, this model is also reasonably light, so Aspire One 751 has only 1.4kg, which is actually only 50gr more than Aspire One D150 that has display of 10.1-inch.”
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The Acer Ferrari One takes the basic 11.16-inch Acer laptop design and ramps it up with the racing colours of the Ferrari brand. The ultra-thin design and lightweight design comes with a host of Ferrari styled features and the true HD resolution means you can watch Gran Prix racing in style. Check out what else the Acer Ferrari One offers after the jump…
Get ready to hear the roar of the Acer Ferrari One, as this 11.6-inch super-slim laptop is set to head for the fast lane when it launches at the end of October. The compact design is built around the 16:9 aspect ratio screen, which offer true HD support.
What’s more, Acer has built in a host of Dolby technology into the Acer Ferrari One, so you’ll get the best possible sound experience from a machine of this size. A Sound Space Extender and even Natural Bass technologies add to the overall sound quality.
Based around a chassis pretty much the same as the Acer Aspire 751, the Ferrari One uses AMD tech instead of Intel inside. Powered by an AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core Processor L310 this is no netbook, rather a powerhouse portable in a compact package. It’s also supported by the AMD M780G chipset. 2048MB of memory and a standard 160GB hard drive round out the spec.
Acer has also announced that it will ship with Windows 7 Home basic, while a Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit version is also expected. The Acer Ferrari One will ship at the end of the month and have a grid-price of £399 (inc. VAT).
“I think Acer has hit a home run with this Netbook of theirs. Known as the AO751h, this is by far the cheapest 12-inch Netbook I’ve come across. When I say cheap, it doesn’t mean Acer has compromised on quality. The build and finish is top notch (although it feels slightly plasticky) and it has got everything you could want in a Netbook; it’s lightweight, has a slim design, good battery life, and a comfortable keypad. But the best part is that it costs lesser than a regular 10-inch Netbook.
The configuration of this one is slightly different as it comes with a slower Atom Z520 CPU that runs at just 1.33GHz. The rest of the specifications remain the same with a 1GB RAM, 160GB hard drive and 6-cell battery capable of delivering eight-hours of battery life. All this sounds great, but I am a little skeptical about the Z520 when it comes to handling complex web animations or 720p movies.”
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Acer is planning to launch an 11.6-inch ultra-thin model, which is based on Intel’s CULV platform, in July according to Digitimes. The new model will fit in Acer’s Timeline series of ultra-thin notebooks and will be manufactured by Quanta.
We recently heard that Acer is looking to rein back shipments of its 11.6-inch Aspire One 751 (AO751h) netbook, following disappointing sales. The report goes on to say that Acer will either look to phase out the 751 or drop its price when the new 11.6-inch ultra-thin launches to clearly define the difference between both 11.6-inch offerings.
Specifications for this new 11.6-inch ultra-thin are unknown right now, although it looks like Acer has realised that one of the shortcomings of the Aspire One 751 was its 1.33GHz Z520 Atom CPU. The Timeline series of notebooks is based on Intel’s Celeron ULV platform and there is no reason why this new model wouldn’t support the same processor. At least with this platform, Acer would make the most out of its 1366 x 768 display by enabling smooth HD 720p content.
Source – www.netbookchoice.com
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The Aspire One 751 already provides separate access panels for the HDD, memory and Wi-Fi. When opening the Wi-Fi slot, it can be seen that there are two Mini PCI-E slots with only one in use. The 751 is completely taken apart in the disassembly guide, the motherboard and internals are all laid out for all to see. Modders out there can add 3G HSDPA functionality to the 751. See a selection of pictures after the jump.
Thanks to www.netbookchoice.com for the info.
The new Acer Aspire One 751 has a screen that measures 11.6in on the diagonal with a resolution of 1366 x 768 and that’s mighty big for a netbook. As it happens, we were told a few months back that Intel has strict rules about the sale of Atom N-series processors to avoid cannibalising the sales of Core 2 and Centrino products.
Acer Aspire One 751: a netbook with a notebook screen resolution
Acer claims that the six-cell 5200mAh battery has a runtime of five hours, and we found that we could run a continuous loop of PCMark05 for two hours and 13 minutes. You can double that figure to get a real-world battery life figure so we’re happy that the Acer will run for four and a half hours with the screen at full brightness, pleasingly close to the figure supplied by Acer. Recharging the battery took one hour 30 minutes.
The large – for a netbook – 11.6in screen on the Aspire One 751 takes these little laptops in an interesting direction. However, the price is getting uncomfortably close to the point where you can buy a proper laptop with a proper CPU
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German website Notebooknews.de mentioned that the new 11.6-inch Acer Aspire One was spotted for sale at a Taiwanese PChome Shop for NT$21600 (Rs. 32,500 approx.). The Aspire One 751 is expected to come equipped with Intel Poulsbo platform that comprises of 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530 processor and Intel SCH USW15S chipset. Intel’s Poulsbo platform has thermal design power rating of 4.5W which conserves more energy than the previous platforms with 11W TDP ratings.
The Intel SCH USW15S chipset features Intel GMA 500 that features H.264 encoding and support for other popular codecs
The Acer Aspire One 531 is priced at €349 ($455) in this configuration, with integrated WiFi and Bluetooth, together with a 160GB hard-drive and 1GB of RAM. However despite the box’s suggestion, there’s no integrated 3G modem or WiMAX
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The new Acer Aspire One 531 is a perfect example. While the screen has received a much needed size increase, the chassis has been slimmed down considerably, with excess fat being shaved off at almost every turn. The result is a lappie that offers both a larger, more practical screen than its 8.9-inch predecessor, and a weight that’s pretty much the same. The new slim design looks better than ever too.
The new processor – an Intel Atom N280 – offers only a marginal GHz increase, but it generates less heat, and thus less fan noise, and its basic operation is noticeably faster too. You still won’t be editing HD videos on it, of course, but for day-to-day email, web browsing, editing Word docs or listening to music, it’s easily up to the kind of tasks you’ll be asking of it. And this time you can actually run multiple programs at the same time without reducing speeds to a frustrating crawl.
These aren’t the only improvements either: the ghastly trackpad with the peculiarly aligned mouse buttons, which were the bane of the original Aspire One, has been replaced with a proper trackpad. It’s fast, precise and it has the mouse buttons finally in the right place.
Not much has changed on the keyboard front, but that’s no bad thing. The Aspire One’s keyboard was already one of the strongest around – at 89% of full size, it’s a doddle to get your fingers used to and you can expect to be up to full typing speeds in no time.
It isn’t completely perfect though – the arrow keys are still a little too cramped for comfort and this time Acer, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to cut the top off the Enter key to slip in a ‘’ key, which really should have been positioned elsewhere. The result is that it becomes all too easy to hit Enter and when you’re searching the web. It’s a real shame, because on a system that offers improvements in so many other places, it seems like a staggering oversight.
The new Aspire One provides the same healthy range of connectors and connections as before, with the addition of 3G data connectivity. You’ve got three USB ports (two on the right, one on the left), a VGA output, Ethernet and, uniquely, a pair of card slots. One of them will read multiple card memory types, while the other is for SD only and designed to enhance the system’s storage space. Although with over 140GB on board as standard, you’re not in much danger of running short.
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