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We’d like to get our hands on the six-pack, because we rarely got the One to run for more than two hours unplugged - maybe two hours and ten minutes doing light productivity work with the WiFi radio turned off, but that proved the best-case scenario. Acer has assigned the $399 price point to a new Win XP configuration (AOA150-1447) with a 160GB hard drive and six-cell battery. Like the Eee 4G’s variation on Xandros Linux, the Linpus platform hides the open-source OS’ complexity behind point-and-click icons in categories such as Connect (browser, instant messenger, e-mail), Fun (media player, photo manager), and Work (the word processor, spreadsheet, and so on).īoth of the above Aspires come with a three-cell battery pack that fits flush with the back of the case.
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Our review system, model AOA150-1570, combines Windows XP with 1GB of memory and the abovementioned 120GB hard disk.įor $329, the Aspire One AOA110-1722 stays closer to the first Eee recipe with the Linpus Linux Lite operating system, 512MB of RAM, and an 8GB solid-state drive (SSD) instead of a hard disk. Go get your own, kidĪctually, Acer has introduced what it calls back-to-school savings on two Aspire One models.
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Considering that it cost the same $399 as the 7-inch, keyboard- and storage-cramped Eee PC 4G we cheered last November, we decided fairly quickly to give it a thumbs up.Īnd that was before the other day, when Acer lowered the price to $349. True, “impressed” doesn’t mean “enraptured” Intel’s new Atom processor’s performance is underwhelming, and our test unit delivered disappointingly brief battery life.īut the Acer is a handsome and classy ultraportable with a high-quality 8.9-inch display, a remarkably usable keyboard, and the familiar environment of Windows XP Home Edition with an ample 120GB hard disk for installing applications and storing data, music, and image files. That’s why we’re impressed with Acer’s entry in the netbook wars, the Aspire One. Can you say “losing sight of simple and affordable”? That’s not even mentioning the online buzz about an Asus presentation last month that outlined a confusing crop of more than 20 Eee-branded PCs at prices up to $900. HP offers a bare-bones, Linux-based configuration of its 2133 Mini-Note for $499, but the top-of-the-line Windows Vista Business model is a hefty $829.Īnd while the original 7-inch-screened Eee flew off the shelves at $400, Asus’ current 10-inch Eee PC 1000 costs $700. That’s why Asus has been joined by HP, Acer, MSI, and (soon) Dell and Lenovo, all trying to find the sweet spot of reduced-but-not-too-reduced features and performance versus price.Trouble is, the plunging prices of full-fledged notebooks are screwing with the sweet spot. They’re also selling like mad to students and traveling professionals who don’t want to carry a heavy full-sized laptop just for going online or doing some word processing or presentation work - and who don’t want to pay big bucks for an upscale ultralight such as Apple’s MacBook Air or Lenovo’s ThinkPad X301. We have a winner, if not in the sales competition at least in the nomenclature contest: The low-priced, lightweight laptops inspired by last fall’s Asus Eee PC and since described as everything from mini-notebooks to kneetops to Microsoft’s catchy acronym ULCPCs (ultra-low-cost PCs) are now universally called “netbooks”, after their primary purpose of simple Web and e-mail access. Pros: great value, good features, Wi-Fi, lightweightĬons: performance is underwhelming, weak battery life Nothing But ‘Net: Back-to-School Notebook PCs.The Atom-powered ultraportable also boasts an 8.9-inch screen, a nearly full-sized keyboard, a great price ($349)–and Wi-Fi, of course.
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Windows XP and a 120GB hard disk give Acer’s 2.3-pound compact netbook PC an edge over Linux lightweights when it comes to adding software (though there’s a Linux version, too).
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