Acer Aspire One

Acer UMPC segment through the launch Acer Aspire One. Armed with a fancy keyboard, good screen and competitive prices make the Aspire one, Acer latest product to be a powerful laptop. Asus Eee might casually strolled in the market, and can last up to several months, but the new competitor has come very quickly and surprisingly. Yes, Acer's Aspire One has been present, whether this is a sign of dominance Asus with its Eee PC has to end? or this is the beginning of a new competition .. 

Mini-notebooks are becoming the trend and growing from day to day in the laptop market, but Acer entered the market which was packed, with a miniature laptop that simple but very classy. Aspire One with an elegant classic looks with its Intel Atom processor gives its own convenience when surfing the Web and light multimedia use. Taking the Linux operating system to interface wrapped ASUS laptop with a fairly light system. Sold at the price of four million, making Acer Aspire One worth considering 

Slim and elegant design 

Color Pearl White on Aspire one (there is also the color of navy blue, pink, and black) looks very elegant. Compared with other mini-notebooks like the Asus Eee PC 901 and HP 2133 Mininote, Acer Aspire One is the most thin and light. With size 17 x 24.9 x 2.8 cm and weighing only 1 kg, 0.1 kg lighter than its competitors Asus Eee PC 901. Perfect for a bag inserted into a small handbag and briefcase. 

Typing with ease, the compact Touchpad 

The keyboard meets 89% of the overall size of the laptop, slightly smaller than the HP Mininote 2133 or MSI Wind, but actually it was felt large enough for a touch of a finger. Because the Aspire one has a very responsive keyboard. With the size 6.3 x 3 cm, trackpad on the Aspire One was quite small and quite narrow. And the results may be often repeated finger movements. Trackpad similar to the HP Mini-note, with a perpendicular vertical mouse buttons in the edges, forcing us to use both hands to access them. Aspire one is equipped with a VGA port, 3 USB ports, Ethernet, headphone, and microphone. Also including 5-in-1 card reader (for transferring photos, music, and other files) and additional SD Card slot, so that we can add storage capacity from 8GB to be even more. 

Interface ekselen 

Similar to the ASUS with its Xandros Linux, Aspire One Linpus Lite as well as an embedded operating system, and the interface is divided into 4 sections / session, ie Connect, Work, Fun, and Files. On equipped Sesion Connect with Firefox 2014; instant-messaging client that supports AIM, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Skype, and several other Instant Messenger. Work on the session we can see OpenOffice suite, Contacts, Calculator, Notes, and Calendar. While the session is Fun Media Master multimedia player, Photo Master picture manager, and a number of casual games. And the session file contains the My Documents, My Music, My Pictures, My Videos, My Downloads, and My Files folders. 

Display clear and Speaker 

With a 8.9-inch glossy display has a resolution of 1024 x 600, bright colorful desktop, and Web pages fit to size on the screen, the Aspire one will spoil our eyes. And the level of vision to the screen until 45?. Embedded webcam on a laptop with 0.3-megapixel size can be used for video chat. Microphone is located on the left of the webcam, and can send sound to the noise level is quite low. Speakers located at the bottom of the laptop, and can produce sufficient sound clarity and sound pretty good coverage. 

Performance of Acer Aspire One 

Aspire one is equipped with a 1.6-GHz Intel Atom processor as used in the Eee PC 901, despite having a lower RAM is 512MB, when compared with the Eee PC's are RAMnya 1GB, Acer Aspire One's performance can not be underestimated. In addition, RAM on the Aspire one is not easy to upgrade, because the RAM has been stored safely in the motherboard. Even so, the program can be run quickly without any obstacles was meant, and can do multitasking well. Just imagine when the test, Linux version of the Aspire One can run the music, browsing, and writing in Open Office without barriers simultaneously. Aspire One 8GB capacity drive, and can boot into the system within 20 seconds, fast enough. But on the other hand this is unfortunate laptop only has 8GB capacity, and we can only use 6.4G. For comparison, the Eee PC 901 comes with a 20GB SSD. Therefore, the Acer is equipped with 2 slot, and both can access SDHC Cards. Interestingly, the card is inserted into the slot, the computer does not read the SD card storage slot as a separate but as part of the hard drive. 

Wireless access with WiFi 

With the Intel Atom processor and a three-cell battery, the Aspire one we hope to survive long in a state of full batery and Wi-Fi on. Due to using the Linux operating system, we can not do "battery run-down tests" in a state standard, but in regular use, including browsing, music, and word processing, this laptop can last up to 1 hour 58 minutes. Eee PC 901 and can do twice using six-cell battery, which is 4 hours 38 minutes. But do not close kmungkinan batery can be replaced using the six-cell battery. Aspire one's using 802.11 b / g Wi-Fi that can connect easily to WPA-protected access point. And signal strength will not be below 92 percent within a radius of 15 meters, and according to our experience of using its WI-FI signal never happened drop. Web pages can be accessed quickly in the office network. And minimize the dashed when viewing online video. (AR)