Acer Aspire One Netbook - Tech Review

Acer Aspire One Netbook - Tech Review Kurt: Hi I’m Kurt from Tech News Made Simple here today with—and we’re going to be looking at the Acer Aspire One Notebook today. Here we have the lovely piece of machinery which is over 9-inches of glory and we’re going to be comparing this to a bunch of other laptops that we have sharing of across the table here today, and let’s get started. So, what made you buy the Acer Aspire One? Male: Couple of things, one is that it’s pretty versatile machine. It’s got a lot of the same features as a regular laptop. Its weight was phenomenally light. I mean, you know, at least half the way of a normal PC including the battery. I’m not talking about without the battery, so even a low weight Sony if you include the battery it gets into the 4.5 – 5 pound range, these things you know little over two pounds. It’s fast and I can use it instead of taking a regular laptop I can use it in meetings. I can use it as a media hub taken on vacation. It’s basically why I bought it. Kurt: Okay, so what are the pros and cons of this netbook versus what you say this piece of a laptop to our left. Male: The pros and cons, I think the pros are obviously the size and the weight of the Acer. It’s of comparable speed. It’s certainly not a speed demon you know, if you want to do, you want to check email. You want to do the education YouTube video. You want to do something, surf the web. It’s perfect. It takes an occasional note. You don’t if you’re going on a quick business trip or whatever you don’t have to carry around the big Lenovo, notebook as well as the break to power it. You just carry around the Acer, so those are some of the pros. The cons of it are that it’s obviously not as fast. Kurt: Right. Male: It’s not as full featured. The mouse is a little awkward, so you probably have to carry some peripherals with you. Kurt: Okay. Male: As an external mouse. I don’t think my version has Bluetooth. I don’t know if it comes with a version that does, so you have some dangles but you have to have external, so those are some of the trade offs. Kurt: Okay, and I can see right away that the keyboards are much, much smaller than a standard laptop notebook, so typing my field a little bit harder. Male: Typing my field a little bit more awkward, so I mean, you would use this kind of as you need it. Kurt: Right. Male: And I won’t be writing any PHD thesis on this or anything like that but I quick day trip maybe your on vacation somewhere whatever you need to respond to something quickly it’s perfect. Kurt: So, do you have any regrets buying this netbook. I mean, if there’s anything else that you would change, what would it be? What would you be looking forward to the future models? Male: I don’t have a lot of regret in buying it. The price point was very reasonable for the future setting you’re getting including the operating system. A lot of these netbooks come with Linux as an operating system which you had to have some either some technical expertise reducing digging to make them compatible with you know, like this standard Word application to whatever. This one actually came with Windows XP, so for $350 it hit the mark with the right feature set. In terms of improvement and what I would look for. I think included Bluetooth and the price would be great. It think that the wireless connection on this is a little bit weak meaning that it’s not that easy to connect to different networks as you’re going, but you have to try a couple of times to connect turn out the radios, less powerful the wireless radio built in to it, and obviously if they could figure out a way to make it a touch screen I think that would have a lot of value. To me I have some difficulty with my wrest already, so having the ability to do you know, touch the screen for different applications would help, and if they will charge an extra $50 to do that would be fine. Kurt: Great, and hopefully though become a rumored touch screen MacBook. I don’t know when that’s going to be but we’re going to keep our eyes open for that. Male: That sounds like a killer computer. Kurt: Yeah, it really does. All right, thank you for your time. Male: Thank you very much. Kurt: Thank you very much for letting us review this and this is Kurt from Tech News Made Simple, so thanks again to—for letting us to interview him. We’re going to look at the Acer Aspire One into more detail here, so as you can see here you have the lovely 9.5-inch wide screen. It is running Windows XP and it also has a 1.6-gigaherzt atom processor. It also have 1-gig of RAM and a three cell battery which gets you about 2.5 and if you stretch it three hours of actual power what you have here on the right hand side of the netbook is a memory card slot for your digital camera or other peripherals of two USB ports and the audio, mic and headphones and you also have a laptop lock. On the left hand side of the netbook you have another card slot, memory card slot, a USB, your internet port, video output for a monitor and the power and if you look at the mouse button which—had mentioned it is a little difficult to use you have your left click and your right click with the touch pad in the middle. Touch pad isn’t as responsive as a normal laptop would be and the buttons are awkwardly positioned as this is written the touch screen versus left and right. Lastly, we’re going to be comparing the size and weight of the Acer Aspire versus our Lenovo T61 of the IBM X41 and the other laptops that we have here, so here we have our lovely 2.2 pound Acer Aspire which has a roughly 9-inch wide screen viewing area monitor. The Lenovo T61 has basically 4 to 5 pound weight. It has about a 14 to 15-inch wide screen viewable area. The biggest difference between the two is you know right here I’m running a graphic intensive video game which you can run of more powerful laptop but you wouldn’t be able to run on a netbook, and here is just a quick size comparison. The Acer Aspire is actually the width actually is even smaller than the keyboard of the Lenovo T61 and when compared with the 12-inch X41 which is an older model,the actual netbook fits within the viewable area, so you know it’s a little less 10-inches in width. It’s about laptop for the Acer Aspire One review. It’s a very nice, lightweight netbook. Great for something that’s portable, quick, easy to use. You surf the web and really quickly check your email versus a single laptop which is a lot heavier and you can’t hold in one hand and type with the other. This is Kurt from Tech News Made Simple, read our story for more details and we’ll see you later.