Hands-on with the Acer Aspire One: an ASUS Eee PC-beater?

by Tarinder Sandhu on 10 June 2008, 16:26

Tags: Acer (TPE:2353)

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The screen was bright and even. The 8.9in size and resolution meant that websites were easy to read.

Playing around on the Linux version - on which Acer will ship a Vista-like GUI that links web browsing, emailing, word processing, and multimedia support - navigation between panes was a little slow compared to a full-sized laptop. Further, opening up concurrent applications caused the sample model to slow to a crawl, but that should be remedied with more system RAM.

Acer steadfastedly maintained that the Aspire One isn't designed as a traditional laptop replacement. Rather, it's pitched as an on-the-go machine. In that respect, it does well, and has a subjectively nicer feel about it than the Eee PC in its various incarnations.



Acer will add different Atom processors and the pink and bronze colours at a later date, we were told, and the company has high hopes for the Aspire One: it plans to ship between 5-7m units in one year!

Another solid offering in the nascent netbook market. Acer really needs to hit the quoted $349/$399 price-points if the Aspire One is to be successful. Over to you, Dell.



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Deffinatly looks good comapred to the Eee :)

One little typo on the first page.

You said £349 for the linux and then $399 for the XP. Guessing it's $349 :)
Wonder if that automagic expansion of the internal SSD can happen under XP too?
Thanks - good preview - and interesting to hear that you feel it's built as well as the eee (which IMHO is a very solid laptop having dropped it rather badly). Here's the other thread on this from yesterday (merge?) http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-hardware/139770-acer-aspire-one-199inc-eee-901-killer.html

Colour? Sign me up for blue - looks great.
Poulsbo or old 945GC ??? Makes a huge diff to battery life!