I’ll admit: there have been far more tablets at Mobile World Congress thanВ  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 MarchВ as the first netbook withВ 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 forВ 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 thanВ  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 MarchВ as the first netbook withВ 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 forВ 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.

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 theВ 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 watchВ 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.В Stay tuned for a full announcment in early March, availability later in the first quarter of this year,В 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.

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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.