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Verdict: Acer’s Aspire one makes a splash. A great keyboard, a fine screen and a keen price make for a simply superb netbook.
Before we go any further, let’s get this out of the way; the Aspire one is absolutely gorgeous. It doesn’t share the HP Mini-Note’s extravagant metal shell, but slip it from its tiny box and it’s got curves in all the right places. Our review unit came in pearly white, but it’s also available in a rich shade of royal blue, a welcome contrast to the plain black and white of the Asus Eees. Whatever colour you eventually choose, though, the smooth lines and the little flash of colour on the lid’s hinges all coalesce into a surprisingly attractive whole.
And when you glance at the Acer Aspire one’s price, that surprise may just spill over into amazement. Where other manufacturers have ignored the Eee’s humble laptop-for-£200 beginnings, and consequently found that their £300+ price tags are treading on the toes of fully-fledged laptops, this, the most lowly of Acer’s five specifications, costs just £191. It also offers an assortment of hardware and vital statistics that easily trumps Asus’ most frugal of Eee PCs, the 701.
The basic specification consists of one of Intel’s Atom N270 processors running at 1.6GHz, 512MB RAM, an 8GB solid-state drive, 802.11bg networking and Linpus Linux Lite as the OS of choice. It’s not a specification to get the pulse racing – we’d have liked Draft-N and Bluetooth – but given the modest demands of Linpus’ OS, it’s still plenty enough for the core tasks expected of it – mail, word processing, internet browsing and media playback.
And, talking of the OS, Linpus Linux Lite shows some promise. The front end isn’t visually as neat as that of the Asus Eee, but it does much the same job. Programs are divided into four main headings: Connect, Work, Fun and Files. The usual suspects such as Mozilla Firefox and OpenOffice are present and correct and Asus has opted to use its own proprietary email client, dubbed Aspire one mail.
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Mobile Computer magazine in the UK has a video comparison of three of the new breed of tiny laptops, the MSI Wind, Asus Eee 901 and the Acer Aspire One.
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“Here they are side by side. It’s a matter of taste regarding which looks purdier. Some Cravers like the Eee PC 901′s glossy curves, while others prefer the two-tone design of the Aspire One. The two gangs are organising a fight outside the Tate Modern at lunchtime tomorrow, if you fancy popping down. Bring your own weaponry. ”
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“The Aspire One is available in a wider range of configurations, including a £220 entry-level model. But here’s how it stacks up against the Eee PC 901, pound for pound: 8.9-inch screen, 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 1GB of RAM, and an 80GB mechanical hard drive — which offers more storage, but is more fragile.”
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Acer is trying to spin a neat line in marketing with the launch of its Aspire One.
Even though it follows the brand name of its consumer notebook line, if Acer is to believed, this isn’t actually a notebook.
Instead, Acer is calling it a ‘two-handed internet device’. In reality, this spin detracts from the fact that Acer has put together a feature-rich mini-notebook in its own right.
The look is very much akin to what we’ve seen from Asus and MSI – a plastic chassis with a keyboard squeezed into a tiny casing.
To fit a decent keyboard, Acer has opted for a large bezel around the screen but you still get a standard 8.9-inch panel with 1024 x 600-pixel resolution.
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