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By N2H
What is the main difference between the Intel Atom Z series processors used in the Acer Aspire One 751 and the Atom N series in the Acer Aspire One AOD250? Performance-wise, which is better?
The Z-series Atom processor are smaller chips built for Mobile Internet Devices, while the Atom N chips target the larger Netbook segment. The former uses less power and hence improve battery life, while the latter has marginally improved performance and cost less than the Z series processors.
So to answer your question, the Atom N CPU is slightly faster than the equivalent Z version. Since the Acer Aspire One 751 has a larger screen than the Aspire One AOD250, the energy savings using the Atom Z is unlikely to translate into better battery life. However, I would still pick the 751 over the Aspire AOD250 for its larger display and better keyboard.
Source cnet: http://asia.cnet.com
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“We’re not entirely sure how serious to take this, but apparently Acer’s hugely popular 8.9-inch Aspire One netbook will trash the hard drive if you play music through it too loudly according to some users on HardwareCult. One of the tracks it has taken a particular dislike to is U2’s Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me, which several users have been able to replicate the problem with.
Ultimately, the drive will undergo “complete catastrophic failure, talking with it all the user’s data“, according to Tigre Marino who made the original claim. The result is “read errors, ATAPI errors on the system log, and even logging Raw Read Errors on the hard drive’s SMART health monitoring system.”
“You’ll see, after some seconds, the hard drive LED will get stuck and the machine could freeze or get a BSOD. Lower the volume or plug in some headphones and the problem magically disappears,” Tigre said.
It’s unknown what causes the problem. Is excessive vibration to blame? Does the video emit a frequency that causes part of the HDD to resonate? Is it simply electrical or magnetic interference? Others have suggested that when the speakers are on full, the HDD received insufficient power. All of the users that reported this were running XP rather than Linux and had hard-disk drives rather than solid-state drives. For those that dare to try it themselves, the U2 video can be found here.”
Soruce: www.netbookchoice.com
Anyone done this ?
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“Now, after finding out that the download limit was lifted, I instinctively hit the link for the download. After signing in with my Live ID, I was redirected to a page asking for some personal details. After filling out a few boxes and answering a few questions, I was taken to a page showing the activation key for this build. Wrote it down and saved it into my Outlook Address look and hit the download link. A download manager pops up to help you resume the 2gb+ ISO download. 3 hours later, I was busy copying the files over to a SDHC card and was eyeing my victim for this experiment, my Acer Aspire One.”
Painless Windows 7b install
Booting into Win XP, I proceeded to install a partition management program. Because this was my on the go machine, I wanted to make sure that it would be operable and usable throughout this experiment. So, the safest option was to set up a dual boot configuration.
After creating a second 60gb partion, I named it Win7 for easy identification. A reboot later, I slipped in the SDHC card containing the extracted files from the downloaded ISO image and proceeded with the install. The screen and installer look almost identical to Vista at this point. After chosing to go with a clean install on the new partion, the installer was autonomous and left me as a spectator. A half hour later, the final reboot and configuration screens passed, I was taken into the Windows 7 environment. I won’t go through Window 7’s features or the pros and cons (countless sites and blogs have covered this) but I’ll get straight to the point with my findings.
Further reading @ http://asia.cnet.com/blogs
AspireOneUser Windows 7 Forum
Windows 7 Beta Download
Windows 7 Beta Videos
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This video was created by one of our forum members; mcmasterp, who also uploaded the drivers for it as well. (on the downloads page) thx.
This touch screen addon can be bought from ebay – see my previous post for further info http://www.aspireoneuser.com/2008/11/03/touch-screen-kit-for-aspire-one-and-eee-pc-900901-hits-ebay-no-soldering-required/
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midgetdiablo on our message forum, has posted pictures of the Acer Aspire One with a 6 cell battery, also Windows XP has Service Pack 3 pre-installed.
Pictures and details here
Btw if your not a registered member yet of the message forum, where have you been 
nearly on the 800th registered user !
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smacman, member on our message forum, has a good summary of the Acer Aspire One.
“The build quality is very good in my opinion. One of the reasons I held off from buying the EEE PC was it’s toy like flimsy feel. The Aspire One feels more like a real laptop yet retains the ultra portable size and weight. I also have no complaints about the keyboard. It is obviously not as easy to type on as a full size, but in the short time I have had with it, I am getting quite used to typing on it. The display is bright with good contrast. The only thing I am noticing is slight color inaccuracy when I view my photos on it. There is a very slight blue/green tint to it which is only noticeable when I view photos. I didn’t buy it for image editing so it does not really bother me.
After powering it up, the first thing I noticed was how quickly it boots up. Within 5 seconds I was in a configuration screen setting my locale and time zone, etc. After this was set, one reboot (aprox. 15 seconds) and I was up and running on the Linpus desktop. They have really made the interface bulletproof in the sense that I don’t think you could bugger this machine up if you tried. Settings are limited to very basic things (trackpad sensitivity, volume, date/time, etc.). There is no facility for adding/removing programs so you get what you get. Firefox 2.0.0.14, Openoffice 2.3, a media player, some games, a mail client (very basic), a messenger program (supports MSN, Googletalk, Yahoo, and AIM). I would have liked to see Skype preinstalled, as well as a better mail client like Mozilla Thunderbird. Considering most people will by this machine for basic tasks like document viewing, web surfing, and email, I think the software is adequate. I wish the OS could be customized a bit more. It would have been nice to have an advanced mode for users who like to tinker a bit. I am hoping to install Ubuntu on it soon.”
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