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“The Acer Aspire One is a mobile netbook that is designed for surfing the web, doing emails and messenger as well as basic computing functions like writing letters and doing simple spreadsheets. Featuring a 8.9 inch screen with built in webcam, 95% keyboard and intuitive interface the Aspire One A110 allows users to access their favourite communication programs right on the home screen to connect them to the web, email or chat on messenger within seconds of turning it on. The Aspire One has built in software that allows users to do everything from writing letters and doing basic spreadsheets to running a presentation. In the work section users can also access contacts list, a calculator and a notes pad. The Aspire One A110 comes in two choice of color: seashell white or sapphire blue. It supports connectivity options through wireless LAN, and features an array of interface that allows users to connect the device to a plethora of peripherals such as digital cameras, mobile phone, camcorder and much more. This is done via its 3 USB ports, VGA output and built in multicard reader.”
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The Aspire One A110 comes with Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition operating system, Acer Launch Manager, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Acer eRecovery Management and McAfee Internet Security Suite (Trial).
Source: www.reviewheaven.net
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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.
Full review and video review @ www.trustedreviews.com
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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 original Acer Aspire One has proved one of the best selling netbooks, we hear, helped along by its competitive price circa-£200. That first model had a 9in screen and ran a friendly graphical Linux operating system; now we find Acer has kept the bankable Aspire One name and followed the crowd with a 10in Windows XP mini laptop.
The Acer Aspire One 531 model here has a similar spec to the Packard Bell dot s – unsurprising since PB is now owned by Acer – although we see £20 has been shaved off the price on this Acer.
Like the dot s, it takes only a 802.11b/g Wi-Fi card, and Bluetooth connectivity has been stripped out of this version sold by PC World.
In our performance test, it earned 38 points in WorldBench; a remarkable result when you consider that it uses the older N270 Atom CPU rather than the marginally quicker N280.
Build quality is up to the task, feeling solid enough despite a relatively thin main chassis. It features VGA video out on the left rear corner and ethernet on the right, both angled gently away from the perpendicular. You can switch Wi-Fi wireless off and on from a tiny slide switch under the netbook’s front edge.
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When we reviewed the latest 10-inch Aspire One, we complained about the tiny touchpad. With the A0751h’s slightly wider footprint, however, comes a wider touchpad (2.5 x 1.6 inches), which was a pleasant improvement over the AOD250’s 2.0 x 1.5-inch pad. It’s still fairly short, though, especially compared to the NB205’s (3.1 x 1.6 inches) enormous touchpad
One thing the AO751h offers that most of its 10-inch competitors don’t is a high-res screen. Whereas the 1005HA, NB205, and 10-inch Apsire One all have displays with 1024 x 600-pixel resolution, the AO751h’s 11.6-inch display has a resolution of 1366 x 768. Those extra vertical pixels, in particular, mean you won’t have to scroll down as often when you’re viewing pages, a common inconvenience with netbooks
The netbook comes with an embedded 1.3-MP webcam. In a Skype chat, our friend reported minimal latency with better colors and brightness than on his Apple iSight camera
When we list a netbook’s specs we sound like a broken record: almost all have 1GB of RAM, Windows XP Home, a 160GB hard drive, and either a 1.6-GHZ or 1.66-GHz Intel Atom processor. The AO751h has most of these same components, except for the processor. Instead, this netbook has a 1.33-GHz Intel Atom Z520 CPU.
Although clock speed isn’t always the be-all and end-all of computing power, in this case the performance delta was obvious. The AO751h’s PCMark05 score of 1,080 trails the scores of its competitors, including the NB205 (1,496) and the 10-inch Acer Aspire One (1,492), which has a 1.6-GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU. Its boot time of 46 seconds, however, was right in line with both the 1005HA (47 seconds) and the 10-inch Aspire One (49 seconds).
Source - laptopmag.com
User reviews @ www.testfreaks.co.uk
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Review Acer made a significant impact on the netbook market last year with its hugely popular Aspire One A110. It recently released a selection of new netbooks in its Aspire One range, and the D250 we have here is bizarrely similar to the D150, which was only launched a couple of months ago
The D250 we reviewed makes use of Intel’s 1.66GHz Atom N280 and Acer supplies it with 1GB of DDR 2 memory. Watch out, though: it’s also available with the 1.6GHz N270, and in fact almost all supplier in the UK are selling the latter.
Two USB ports and a multi-format card reader are found on the right, along with the power socket. On the left sit Ethernet, VGA, audio in/out and a third USB port. The vent is also on the left, and although the D250’s fan fired up a fair amount during testing – even when doing little more than browsing the web – it’s not loud enough to irritate.
The rear is home to naught but the three-cell 2200mAh battery. A six-cell version is also available, though the battery’s a bulky affair that angles down from the notebook to lift the back of the machine up off the deck. It makes the machine less comfortable to carry – stick it in a bag and you won’t care – but you may find it angles the keyboard better.
Full review – www.reghardware.co.uk
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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
Review @ www.reghardware.co.uk
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.
Full review @ www.t3.com
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The Acer Aspire One D150 is a 10in netbook with an upgraded intel Atom chip.
When Acer created the original Acer Aspire One, it came up with a bestseller that was helped along by the fashionable styling, attractive low price and good overall build and performance.
It has now stretched the original screen by an inch, bringing the new Acer Aspire One D150 model in line with the rest of the 10in pack
Full review @ www.pcadvisor.co.uk
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Laptop Mag have done a review on all the new 10″ netbooks out, including the new Acer Aspire One.
Anyone looking to purchase a netbook in the past year has a plethora of choices and very likely a clear idea of what a netbook is good for. However, knowing what you want out of a netbook may not help narrow down your choices much. Just eliminating the 7 and 8.9-inch machines, you’re left with over half a dozen 10-inch choices, all of which can seem pretty similar.
Back in November ‘08 we compared five of the leading 10-inch netbooks to see which scored best in performance, design, and value. The Samsung NC10 and the MSI Wind U110 lead the pack with excellent battery life and user-friendly design (which included great keyboards). But now there’s a new 10-incher on the block: the Acer Aspire One. Plus, both ASUS and MSI released updates to their models. So we decided to take a fresh look.
Further reading @ www.laptopmag.com
