Acer Aspire One Notebook: A Laptop Review

Acer Enters the Ultra Portable Arena with Aspire OneThe winner in the nomenclature contest, if not in the sales competition, is the low-priced, lightweight laptops inspired by Asus Eee PC. Once described as mini-notebooks, they are now called netbooks, because their sole purpose is simple Web and e-mail access.These netbooks are selling like hotcakes especially to students and traveling professionals who do not desire to lug in a heavy laptop and pay lots for an ultralight model. Asus, HP, Acer, MSI and soon Dell and
?Lenovo are finding ways to have a reduced-but-not-too-reduced features and performance against price. The trouble is the plunging prices of full-fledged notebooks. The Linux-based configuration of HP's 2133 Mini-Note is selling for $499 while the Windows Vista Business Model is at $829.The original 7-inch-screened Eee costs $400 while Asus' current 10-inch Eee PC 1000 is at $700. This does not include the buzz about an Asus presentation a month ago outlining a confusing crop of more than 20 Eee-branded PC at $900.Acer's Aspire One makes an impressive entrance in the netbook wars. Although Intel's new Atom processor performance is underwhelming and the battery life was somewhat brief.Yet the Acer is a comely and chic ultra portable netbook. It has a high-quality 8.9-inch display, an exceptionally usable keyboard with the familiar environment of Windows XP Home Edition. It also boasts of 120GB hard disk for application installing and storing data, music and image files. The cost is the same as an Eee PC 4G at $399. The going gets even better since Acer lowered the price at $349.Go Get Your Own, KidTwo Aspire One models have been introduced by Acer at back-to-school savings price. The AOA150-1570, which is the review system, combines Windows XP with 1GB of memory and the 120GB hard disk.The Aspire One AOA110-1722 is priced at $329. It has Linpus Linux Lite operating system, 512MB or RAM and an 8GB solid-state drive or SSD instead of a hard disk. The Linpus platform hides the open-source OS' complexity behind point-and-click icons.Acer Aspire One Notebook: A Laptop Review

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