UK Netbook Review

It seems like every netbook maker is rushing to add Intel’s latest N550 processor to their lineup and Acer is no exception.Acer was quick off the mark in introducing its Aspire One D255 netbook way back in July and now it’s also the first to sell the dual core Atom N550 processor equipped D255 in the US at HSN.com. That’s right, the Home Shopping Network.

Ok, it’s not late May, early June as we thought earlier, but now there’s more definite news that Acer is working on a netbook that will run Google’s Chrome OS. The sleuths at Macles spotted a few details and posted them.

Acer’s latest in the ‘Acer Aspire One’ series is the recently launched Acer Aspire One D255.  This new netbook runs both Windows and Google Android.  Sascha from Netbook News.de managed to pick one up in Taiwan recently and made the unboxing video (above) for our viewing pleasure. The netbook runs about $289 in Taiwain and comes [...]

Acer has started showing off a dual booting netbook called the Acer Aspire One AOD255. It boots both Google Android and Windows 7, using software called the Acer Configuration manager which lets you choose which OS to boot at startup. Other than that, it’s a standard netbook with 1GB of memory, a 160GB hard drive, a 10.1 inch display, and a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor. There’s a choice of a 3 or 6 cell battery.

Brad at Liliputing took a look at the new Acer Aspire One 721 which is a 11.6 inch thin and light notebook (1366 x 768 pixels) powered by a 1.7GHz AMD Athlon II Neo K125 processor and ATI Radeon HD 4225 graphics. This Aspire One 721 is much like the Acer Aspire One 521 that we posted an unboxing and review of earlier. The main differences between the 721 and the 521 are a larger 11.6″ screen on the 721, which also makes reoom for a full sized keyboard. We suspect battery life should be shorter for the 721 as well since it needs to power the larger, higher resolution screen.