Acer Aspire One AOA150-1049 8.9-Inch Netbook (1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 Processor, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, XP Home, 6 Cell Battery) Black The Aspire ONE is Acer’s first 8.9″ notebook powered by the Intel Atom processor, providing leading performance for your Internet centric lifestyle.The ultra small and slim form factor reflects your on-the-go lifestyle. In addition to its charming appearance, Aspire ONE helps you stay productive entertained and connected to your digital world.
Customer Review: Great Little Laptop
Researched it long and hard and got just what I wanted. Great laptop at a great price. 1G is more than enough for this baby and 160 Gb can hold all I need it to. 6 cell battery is a plus,and you might even think about a 9 cell. All in All..a great buy.
Customer Review: Love it except for the Mouse Pad
I think there are enough good/bad Reviews of this product already in this site and so I will restrict mine to a few comments:
1) This is a great, beautiful netbook for the price. The white-colored outside makes it stand out in the typical-low priced laptop/netbook market.
2) The keyboard–while understandably smaller–is not too bad for typing. The keys are soft-touched and feel very nice.
3) The mouse-pad. Absolutely bad. The left and right mouse buttons are understandly in little grooves but they are quite hard to get used to. Over past 10 years I have had at least 12 laptops and this one’s mouse pad has been the worst. BUT…use an external USB mouse and that will solve the problem.
4) The computer handles most ‘normal’ laptop works quite well. Boots up fast. XP Home is adequate and reliable.
5) Now the best part for me: This netbook can easily handle the Instant Watch movies of Netflix. I have this sort of permanently hooked up to our bedroom’s 27″ LCD tv via VGA cable and the audio to external desktop speakers (with subwoofers) and we have now have a cheap home theater system in place. What was amazing is that playing on the LCD TV (a cheap Insignia) allowed me to increase the screen resolution from 1024×600 to 1024×768!
6) The built-in speakers are -very- inadequate. Invest in headphones or hook upto external powered-speakers and the sound will be be great! Yes, beautiful stereo sound.
7) We also have some of our home DVDs ‘ripped’ onto a networked hard drive (Western Digital My Book 2 TB) in .avi format using So Think media’s DVD ripper. Each .avi file is typically 2 GB in size. This little puppy loads these video just fine over a wireless network and plays without any hangups onto the large LCD tv screen. I have even played High Definition (720p ones) .avi files without any issues using the network drive. Wow!
There is a low humming noise from this unit. Don’t know if it is the fan or hard-drive. It can be annoying if you choose to concentrate on that.
9) Oh, the wireless internet connection is likely to be slow for you because of the default setting to save battery life. I recorded as low as 58kbps on [...] testing. That was very annoying. I did some Bing and Google searches and it turned out that I had to change some settings for the power-mode for the wireless adapters. Problem solved.
10) In just web-surfing mode I am confident that the battery will last at least 5 hours. With a mixed-mode experience of web-surfing, watching .avi, watching You Tube the battery almost ran out near 5 hours. Not bad!
11) If you want to watch Netflix’s Instant movies then don’t buy any netbook with less than 10gb hard-drive–that won’t work. I used to have an Asus EEE PC with 4 gb Solid State drive and that did not work for Netlix.
12) Enjoy this great device by hooking up with Skype or Magic Jack. Get a broad-band USB internet connection card with some cell phone carriers. A GPS service hooked up to this. Extra battery if needed. Wireless mouse/keyboard…You can do so much with such devices and you can be truly ‘mobile’ even with Magic Jack attached.
13) Related note: Recently Walmart started broadcasting an Asus 8.9″ for only $238. They are claiming an Intel Atom processor. That is not true! Theirs’ is a Celeron processor. Don’t buy a Celeron netbook because Atoms are better and worth a few extra bucks. Someone needs to correct Walmart.
14) Admiteddly, this netbook was NOT my first choice. I wanted an 8.9″ Asus but those darn things are sold out everywhere the last I checked. I have another 2-year old Acer Aspire 14.1″ regular laptop but I am not a big fan of that though that one is hooked to the living room’s 52″ LCD tv and is still doing all Netflix, You Tube, network .avi files playback just fine. May be I will buy another Acer again–I used to think they are the ‘Yugo’ of the laptop market.
PS. ‘A few words’ turned out to be so many words 
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