You can get a phone with Android. You can get a tablet with Android. But why stop there? Today at the Taipei Computer Applications show, Acer showed off its new Aspire One AOD255 netbook, which duals boots Android and Windows XP. The notebook comes with pretty standard hardware you’d expect of a 10-inch netbook these days: 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a 160GB The storage device that holds your OS, programs, and data. Learn Morehard drive, and a 1.66-GHz Atom N450 CPU.
The netbook will carry a list price of NT $11,900 or approximately $375 U.S. For that price, you get only a 3-cell battery, but a 6-cell option will be available for another $95, a salesman told PC World. Â A program celled Acer Configuration Manager allows the user to control which OS will boot. We have no idea why Acer chose to use Windows XP over Windows 7 Starter.
This is not Acer’s first attempt at marketing a dual-boot netbook with Android and Windows on it. Last year, we got a chance to go hands-on with  the Acer Aspire One AOD250 with Android and enjoyed using it, but we’re not even sure if it ever came to market as we never saw it for sale. There’s no word yet on whether the AOD255 will make it to North America, but for now, you can enjoy Network World’s interesting hands-on video:
If ever there was a netbook that mirrored the qualities of the audience it wanted to attract, Acer’s new Aspire One D260 nails it. Rail-thin and lighter than most other netbooks, this system is like a Runway Girl who will sacrifice food and good sense in order to slip into a size 0 pair of jeans. In the D260’s case, the sacrifice is battery life. At least the netbook won’t pass out from malnutrition. Though the endurance isn’t great, the system is a looker, has a surprisingly good touchpad, and costs less than $300.
The Acer Aspire Revo nettop which has been on the market for the past year or so really looks more like a multimedia box that you would stick next to your TV than a full fledged computer. I mean sure, it can run Windows XP or Windows 7, but the killer features are the low price, small size, and NVIDIA ION graphics for pumping out HD video.
So perhaps it should come as no surprise that Acer is giving its new line of multimedia devices the Revo name. Acer introduced the new Revo family today. The products include:
Acer Revo multimedia center – An all-in-one media center PC with a wireless remote called the RevoPad which serves double-duty as a keyboard and a touchpad with multitouch support
Acer RevoView media player – Basically a hard drive enclosure that connects to your TV with HD video support (plus a remote control and support for USB storage devices)
Acer RevoCenter home storage appliance – Networked attached storage device for storing your media and streaming it over a home network
Acer is also introducing new software called clear.fi that is designed to make it easier to share media across these different devices as well as Acer computers and phones.
There’s no word on pricing or availability yet. But in the meantime, you can pick up an Acer Aspire Revo nettop with Windows XP and NVIDIA ION LE graphics for around $200.
Update: The folks at Blogeee snagged some press shots of the new gear, including the funny looking RevoPad remote control, which you can check out after the break. Hit up Blogeee for the rest of the photos.
I’ll admit: there have been far more tablets at Mobile World Congress than netbooks. But I have seen one. As we told you earlier this week, Acer is showing off the Aspire One 532g, which will fully launch in March as the first netbook with Nvidia Ion 2 inside. While I didn’t get to test the netbook’s Graphics chips are responsible for processing all images sent to your computer?s display. Learn Morediscrete graphics– or verify its claims to 10-hour battery life– I did come away with a good feel for its design and ergonomics. (Spoiler: they ain’t perfect.)
While the press photo we saw earlier this week showed a deep red netbook, the one I saw today was navy, suggesting it might be available in multiple colors. As you can imagine, the glossy lid and palm rest pick up fingerprints pretty easily. The high hinge and matte black keyboard might give the netbook a dated look, but I think the electric blue touch button, which coordinates with the lid, keeps it stylish.
At first glance, the keyboard looks like it has a tradtional layout, but if you look closely you can see the keys are, technically, separate, island-style. The keys have a shallow pitch, and don’t make much noise when you type. They have a slightly textured finish, that made our fingers feel grounded as we typed. The arrow and CTRL keys are typically squished in the lower right-hand corner, but otherwise, the keyboard feels spacious, and extends from one end of the chassis to the other with little extra space on either side.
The trackpad and touch button are where the 532g’s design begins to falter. The touchpad is on the small side, for one, and has a texture that’s uncomfortably bumpy. (On the plus side, it has a scroll strip.) Meanwhile, the touch button is too narrow. Not to mention, we always prefer discrete buttons, as on the Toshiba NB305. At least this touch bar is easy to press, unlike touch bars on other notebooks we’ve tested.
The 532g’s ports include 2 USB ports, HDMI and VGA output, an Ethernet jack, a memory card reader (I counted support for five formats), and the port for the AC adapter. All the ports are on the two sides; none are on the front or the back.
Spec-wise, the 532g will be the first netbook with the second generation of Nvidia’s Ion graphics platform. It runs Intel’s Pinetrail platform, an Atom N450 processor, and has a 250GB The storage device that holds your OS, programs, and data. Learn Morehard drive.
Stay tuned for more details in March and, eventually, a full review.
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I’ll admit: there have been far more tablets at Mobile World Congress than netbooks. But I have seen one. As we told you earlier this week, Acer is showing off the Aspire One 532g, which will fully launch in March as the first netbook with Nvidia Ion 2 inside. While I didn’t get to test the netbook’s Graphics chips are responsible for processing all images sent to your computer?s display. Learn Morediscrete graphics– or verify its claims to 10-hour battery life– I did come away with a good feel for its design and ergonomics. (Spoiler: they ain’t perfect.)
While the press photo we saw earlier this week showed a deep red netbook, the one I saw today was navy, suggesting it might be available in multiple colors. As you can imagine, the glossy lid and palm rest pick up fingerprints pretty easily. The high hinge and matte black keyboard might give the netbook a dated look, but I think the electric blue touch button, which coordinates with the lid, keeps it stylish.
At first glance, the keyboard looks like it has a tradtional layout, but if you look closely you can see the keys are, technically, separate, island-style. The keys have a shallow pitch, and don’t make much noise when you type. They have a slightly textured finish, that made our fingers feel grounded as we typed. The arrow and CTRL keys are typically squished in the lower right-hand corner, but otherwise, the keyboard feels spacious, and extends from one end of the chassis to the other with little extra space on either side.
The trackpad and touch button are where the 532g’s design begins to falter. The touchpad is on the small side, for one, and has a texture that’s uncomfortably bumpy. (On the plus side, it has a scroll strip.) Meanwhile, the touch button is too narrow. Not to mention, we always prefer discrete buttons, as on the Toshiba NB305. At least this touch bar is easy to press, unlike touch bars on other notebooks we’ve tested.
The 532g’s ports include 2 USB ports, HDMI and VGA output, an Ethernet jack, a memory card reader (I counted support for five formats), and the port for the AC adapter. All the ports are on the two sides; none are on the front or the back.
Spec-wise, the 532g will be the first netbook with the second generation of Nvidia’s Ion graphics platform. It runs Intel’s Pinetrail platform, an Atom N450 processor, and has a 250GB The storage device that holds your OS, programs, and data. Learn Morehard drive.
Stay tuned for more details in March and, eventually, a full review.
It looks like Acer is getting ready to break the mold with its upcoming Acer Aspire One 532G netbook. Sure, it will look virtually identical to the standard Aspire One 532H which is already available. But the 532G will be one of the first 10 inch netbooks with NVIDIA ION graphics. Oh yeah, and we’re talking NVIDIA ION 2 here.
As far as I know, NVIDIA still hasn’t officially introduced the ION 2 platform, but with Acer putting out its press release for the Asprie One 532G, it seems likely that NVIDIA will make an announcement at Mobile World Congress this week.
The Acer press release doesn’t specifically refer to the chipset as ION 2, but it does mention a “next-generation NVIDIA ION GPU with dedicated 512MB memory. NVIDIA’s current ION technology uses an Intel Atom processor and replaces Intel’s integrated graphics with an NVIDIA solution. That’s not possible on computers with Intel Atom Pine Trail chips like the Aspire One 532G, because the graphics and processor are on the same piece of silicone. Instead, ION 2 will pair the Atom N450 chip with a switchable graphics card that will let you watch 1080p HD video on the netbook.
There aren’t a lot of additional details about the Aspire One 532G, but I’m pretty sure it will have a 10.1 inch, 1366 x 768 HD display, since the press release mentions playback of 720p video on the display and 1080p through an HDMI output.
Sascha from Netbook News.de apparently got his hands on a demo model briefly this morning, and he posted an image of the device manager to TwitPic. And Notebook Italia has a hands-on video of the laptop playing HD video. You can check it out after the break.
Add this to the long list of things I hope to see at Mobile World Congress: Acer announced today that it will be previewing the Acer Aspire One 532g, the first netbook running on the next generation of Nvidia’s Ion platform. This netbook-caliber Graphics chips are responsible for processing all images sent to your computer?s display. Learn Morediscrete graphics chip, coupled with an Intel Pinetrail CPU, promises graphics punchy enough to watch HD YouTube videos and play online games smoothly.
Despite its graphics muscle, the 10-inch netbook still promises 10 hours of battery life. It will have Wi-Fi, of course, as well as optional 3G. Stay tuned for a full announcment in early March, availability later in the first quarter of this year, and hopefully a more detailed sneak peek even sooner.
Looks like Acer is aiming to make the Aspire One netbook the best-selling netbook of 2010, just as they did back in 2008. Though there is far more competition now, the Acer Aspire One AO532h has a lot going for it. The new Intel Atom N450 processor, the promise of 10 hours of battery life, and a price that blows away the comepetition: $299. Yep, just $299 for a netbook that will most likely be pretty sweet.
We’re fans of the Aspire One series, particularly those models that come with 6-cell batteries as the AO532h will. And if the press images are to be believed, this netbook will come with Acer’s wonderful FineTip keyboard. The touchpad also looks fairly large and promises to be multitouch, another nice feature.
The price alone is worth getting excited about, but don’t forget that battery life. Even if it doesn’t get up to 10 hours, I’ll take 7 – 8 and be happy. Like most new netbooks, the AO532h will come with Windows 7 (Starter Edition, unfortunately), which isn’t so great for netbook battery life. But Intel’s Pine Trail CPUs are more energy-efficient, and help to give back some of the battery life Windows 7 steals. Acer also claims that the “10.1-inch LED-backlit TFT LCD saves 22.2 percent power compared with other netbook displays.” Will all this allow the low-capacity battery (4400 mAh) to last long enough? We’ll see when we test it.
Other specs include a b/g/-draft-n wireless card, 1GB of RAM, 160GB The storage device that holds your OS, programs, and data. Learn Morehard drive, and the standard spread of ports.
Yes, it’s pretty much like your typical netbook except with a fancy new processor. But $299. I get the feeling even if this netbook doesn’t wow reviewers it’s going to sell like hotcakes. It will be available in January and we’re going to get our first look at CES next week.
Looks like Acer is aiming to make the Aspire One netbook the best-selling netbook of 2010, just as they did back in 2008. Though there is far more competition now, the Acer Aspire One AO532h has a lot going for it. The new Intel Atom N450 processor, the promise of 10 hours of battery life, and a price that blows away the comepetition: $299. Yep, just $299 for a netbook that will most likely be pretty sweet.
We’re fans of the Aspire One series, particularly those models that come with 6-cell batteries as the AO532h will. And if the press images are to be believed, this netbook will come with Acer’s wonderful FineTip keyboard. The touchpad also looks fairly large and promises to be multitouch, another nice feature.
The price alone is worth getting excited about, but don’t forget that battery life. Even if it doesn’t get up to 10 hours, I’ll take 7 – 8 and be happy. Like most new netbooks, the AO532h will come with Windows 7 (Starter Edition, unfortunately), which isn’t so great for netbook battery life. But Intel’s Pine Trail CPUs are more energy-efficient, and help to give back some of the battery life Windows 7 steals. Acer also claims that the “10.1-inch LED-backlit TFT LCD saves 22.2 percent power compared with other netbook displays.” Will all this allow the low-capacity battery (4400 mAh) to last long enough? We’ll see when we test it.
Other specs include a b/g/-draft-n wireless card, 1GB of RAM, 160GB The storage device that holds your OS, programs, and data. Learn Morehard drive, and the standard spread of ports.
Yes, it’s pretty much like your typical netbook except with a fancy new processor. But $299. I get the feeling even if this netbook doesn’t wow reviewers it’s going to sell like hotcakes. It will be available in January and we’re going to get our first look at CES next week.
Like a number of PC makers, Acer hasn’t officially announced any new netbooks with Intel Atom Pine Trail processors yet. But the folks at Netbook News.de tracked down some pictures of an upcoming model called the Acer Aspire One 532h. It has an Atom N450 processor, GMA 3150 graphics, and a high resolution 1280 x 720 pixel 10.1 inch display.
Aside from the new chipset and higher resolution display, the netbook looks a lot like Acer’s current offerings in this space. It will have 1GB of RAM, either a 160GB or 250GB hard drive, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, and run Windows 7 Starter Edition.
Update: It looks like Acer has gone ahead and officially announced the Aspire One 532h.There’s no mention of that HD display, but that doesn’t rule it out as an optional component. The base model will sell for $299 with Windows 7 Starter and a 6 cell, 4400mAh battery. The netbook comes standard with a multitouch touchpad and 802.11b/g/n WiFi.
It will be available in blue, red, and silver and the Aspire One 532h weighs 2.76 pounds and measures 10.2″ x 7.3″ x 1″.
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