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Acer Aspire One – One to Desire - Conclusion

Thursday, 09 October 2008 21:20 Nikolaj Grundtvig

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Article Index
Acer Aspire One – One to Desire
Specifications
Package contents
Physical aspects
Physical aspects - Continued
Benchmark
Benchmark - Continued
3DMark and PCMark05
Gaming
Conclusion
All Pages

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Conclusion:

Since the first news of Acer’s Aspire One, the netbook created quite a stir and impatience amongst laptop enthusiasts. It’s definitely been worth the wait (not that certain aspects couldn’t have been better).

Let’s start with the negative. The lack of access to upgrade RAM at home will undoubtedly make more experienced users stray over to the Eee rather than the Aspire One. 3G should have been in included in all netbooks; the netbook of the year will presumably be the one with the best 3G solution. Unlimited mobility and netbook are two sides to the same coin. There’s also the susceptibility to grime; if you’re the kind of person who can’t bear when your things get grimy, don’t pick the Aspire One.

That was the only negative aspects of the Aspire One worth mentioning. You could say that it lacks Gigabit Ethernet, E-Sata or DVI/HDMI, but it’s a netbook and a very potent one at that.

With its impressive low weight – some 950 grams with battery – it’s a delight to handle. The network adapter works fine, which is sometimes a problem with Acer, but the laptop ran all the tests with no problems whatsoever.

The possibility of connecting an external monitor to the Aspire One, combined with no less than three USB ports makes the laptop a serious candidate for a work notebook, especially for people on the go. Okay, a battery life of three hours is slightly low, but I experienced that the battery can be recharged in just over 30 minutes. I hope to return with an update on the performance of the 6 Cell battery later.

Works license and preinstalled Office 2007 (trial license) makes the laptop ideal for all students. Some might wish to supplement the battery with an extra one, but most will be able to recharge it in the course of a day, and as an old law student, I can only envy those who can sit and type down notes directly at lectures. Here the Aspire One will be super, especially with its compact size on small lecture tables...

I’ll be writing another review of the Aspire One for two reasons: 1) because it’s just awesome (despite its grime problem); 2) because it has impressed me with its multimedia abilities. Part two will be about playing films via a projector and sound via all new speakers from Logitech – look forward to it!

All in all, the Aspire One is “One to Desire”. I had to own one myself, and it has almost taken over the function as work notebook from my old TravelMate completely.

The Acer Aspire One A150 gets my highest recommendations.

Overall, I’m gonna round up and give it a small 4.

Pros:
 - Price 
- Total experience
 - Display
 - Impressive performance
 - Software bundle

Cons: 
- Battery life in the low end 
- Lack of 3G
 - Difficult to upgrade hard drive and RAM.

Battery: 2,5 / 5Graphics: 2,5 / 5Construction: 4 / 5Software: 5 / 5Overall: 4 / 5

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I agree - nice review!!

Super nice review and cool new site

For those looking to replace the XP with a linux system there are some options:

Ubuntu for Acer Aspire One: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireOne

One Linux Ubuntu Build: http://onelinux.org/

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