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Acer Aspire One – One to Desire - Physical aspects

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
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Physical aspects

First impression:

The tested model of the Acer Aspire One A150 comes in a stylish blue Acer colour. The screen is black on the inside and the lid is the same shade of blue on the inside. Other colours available at the moment are white, pink, and brown. This leaves plenty of opportunity for customization, and the Aspire One will undoubtedly become popular with “modders” who want to a personal touch on their laptop.

What really hits you is how elegant the Acer Aspire One truly is. It’s designed to look like a normal laptop; in fact, it looks like the laptops from Acer’s new Gemstone series.

At the same time, you can almost sense how light it is – less than 1kg. It is the lightest laptop I’ve had my hands on to date, and I’m honestly thrilled.

The Acer Aspire One A150 is smaller than most of the law books on my shelves, and is just as powerful on paper as my old TravelMate 4651. The 8.9” display is not very big, but a resolution of 1024x600 makes is adequate for a netbook.
The design of the A150 is elegant all the way through. That is actually impressive on a machine that costs less than a RAM update did just a few years ago.

The lid:

Like the rest of the laptop, the lid is made of solid plastic, and the display may flex a little when you touch it. The colour is metallic blue, and the Acer logo is printed in one of the upper corners. A small con to the Acer Aspire One is its susceptibility to greasy fingers, both inside and out, but besides that, the materials feel nice and despite the low price, they don’t feel cheap.

The front:

The front does not come with any other functions than a button at the right side that enables/disables wireless networking.
The rear:

There are no ports of any kind at the rear since the display is lowered behind the rear when you open the lid. Unfortunately, I do not know how the 6 Cell battery looks, but there is enough space for it really.

The bottom:

At the bottom there’s a vent, as well as access to neither hard drive nor RAM, but...something. I’ll leave it at that until I find out what’s supposed to be under the cap there, so look out for an update.

Only the battery is directly accessible.

The battery is ultra thin and adds only little to the overall weight of the netbook.

The battery is a 3 Cell, 2200mAh. We test its performance below.

There’s an interesting detail beneath the battery, namely a closed off SIM card slot. According to Acer’s website, 3G models are on the way. That definitely wouldn’t hurt on a netbook, but this model sadly did not have one so I have not been able to test it.
 

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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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