Acer's 11.6-inch Aspire One goes legit
By Paul Miller 
posted April 7th 2009 10:45PM
posted April 7th 2009 10:45PM
posted April 7th 2009 10:45PM
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Acer must be trying so hard to pull some sale figures and "top-net/note/book" seller spot by year end..... what exactly is their year-end target again?
I better start my own company.......what is it that I'm waiting for....
... but it's an Acer
Wow, hey, Bluetooth in a netbook. Whodathunkit?
Sweet XP PRO!!!! I'll take one.
i actually really like this
form factor is looking nice
normal internals, but i'm guessing the size would allow for a 5400 RPM 500GB to be put in there (which is the first thing I'd do)
hopefully allows RAM upgrades!!
put all of that in that package for less than $400 and I'm sold.
It looks like it has multitouch too. At any rate it seems like a good compromise
I swear, these days it seems manufacturers will call any laptop with an Atom processor a netbook.
I'm just waiting for the 15" netbooks to start being announced. What happened to the 7" screen? Isn't that what a netbook was all about?
There are quite a few people who return the 7 to 9 inch netbooks because they are just TOO small. Sure you can make stuff LOOK bigger, but surfing isn't comfortable on them by any means - nothing is. So 10 inches to 12 or 13 will hit the sweet spot at long as they remain very light and cheap.
I think you're right about the size and the thin line and blurring between net and note book, but for me it's a matter of price AND size more so than just size or just price. If it's 600+ then I don't consider it a netbook - it's gotta be a umpc and something had to have distinguished it entirely from it's 300 cousins, no matter how small. Same thing if it's over 13 inches or over 4lbs...it's not a netbook.
I'm still waiting for them to include a dual core atom or via chip to buy mine.
netbooks are all about the net. the processor is intended to be irrelevant, because it doesn't take much to browse the web. Core 2 duos in 11" form factors are utter overkill. the Atom is plenty powerful for XP. ideally, the larger netbooks will allow for larger batteries, which would in turn allow for a decent amount of use unplugged. Any larger and I'm totally with you.
I suppose that any larger than this, and it could be considered a battery powered nettop. On that vein, why not give it a touch screen and a disk drive. and DDR3. and a giant SSD, and an HDTV Tunder, and...
If they shrunk the bezels on most netbooks, they could probably fit 11" screens. that would be sweet.
I don't think the vision of extremely cheap, 7" notebook only for surfing the internet works anymore. Sure, that was the original concept, but as soon as Windows XP came along people started to use the computers as cheap ultraportables. The netbook now is basically a cheap, small and light notebook now with an ever-expanding number of abilities. Manufacteurs have, for the most part, acknowledged this and moved away from the original vision (which doesn't sell as well) and made netbooks larger, nicer and more multi-media oritented.
As for it being all about the net - its more than that. Office tasks, word processing, and even light video use - people will use netbooks the way they are used to with other computers, to the extent possible by the hardware, not as some new type of device.
You guys are all correct... but have a freak'n cutoff already.. say 13 inch? Anything above that would just confuse the 'netbook' industry.
What is the first notebook pictured? its a 13.3 incher.
It looks like some pictures of another Aspire laptop are mixed in. For example, http://www.engadget.com/photos/acer-aspire-one-11-6-inch-hands-on/1477682/
Says 10+ hours, Centrino 2 processor and 13.3" screen.
Anyways, I might be amenable to a 11.6-inch netbook if it gets 5 or 6 hours of battery life (assuming that the 8 hours they claim is inflated as it is with every manufacturer), as long as the price is below, say.. $600? I'm also curious what the weight is.
If they put it under $500 retail they'll make a killing.
299.99 at Best Buy, Available for purchase now.
Nope.
Perhaps you were looking at this?
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9186249&st=acer&lp=3&type=product&cp=1&id=1218049844243
though it is early I got mine from Micro Center & J&R
the 299.99 is the old 8.9" one
Could be the perfect netbook. Price will be the main concern. An almost full resolution screen is really the one thing that netbooks needed although I'd have preferred 1280x800 like the HP but hey, beggars can't be choosy. I say that we just drop the whole "netbook" term and just make laptops of all sizes from now on. Why does everyone care what word we use to classify it?
I really like the size, I don't give a crap what you call it. Also diggin the resolution. However, I'm holding out to see what the Dell Mini 11 is all about. I like the sound of laptop performance with an 11.6 inch screen.
Processor and screen res please?
According to the blurb below the photo, it should be WXGA resolution (1366x768) with an Intel Atom processor.
The screen size is right on for those of us who can't use the 8", 9" or 10" due to vision issues but as usual I bet it will be priced higher than most 14" or 15" notebooks. As soon as someone comes out with an 11" or 12" netbook that sales for $399 & has a good hardware package I'll purchase one & put OS X Leopard on it.. Can't wait.. I think I just got goosebumps up my arm..
You'd be better off putting Windows 7 on it unless you need someone to hold your hand while you use the computer.
Looks really nicely built. I don't know if I could adjust going from 1920x1200 to these small resolutions though.
It Aspires to be a netbook worth owning.
"a LED backlit screen with WXGA resolution"
I hate these stupid designations like "WXGA", "WUXGA" and "WSXGA+". What is that? 1280×800, 1366×768, 1280x960?
They tell you nothing useful. Why not just list the damned pixel dimensions. Much more informative.
Looks perfect, I sold my 8.9" Aspire One because someone needed a good deal on a used netbook and now I've been searching. Really my main requirements are the N280, bluetooth, at least 768 lines of horizontal res, and upgradeable to 2gb of ram.
Looks like it'll be the next purchase as long as it's under $400!
My Eeepc 701's 7" screen has 'at least 768 lines of horizontal res'... It's 800x480 :-)
Does it have backlit keyboard?
In some pics it looks like, no???
no backlit keyboard~
but it's a FULL size keyboard!!!
Yeah finally!!
"Sweet XP PRO!!!! I'll take one."
I agree with that! and MS is extending XP lifetime to 2011 or something!
WINDOWS XP ROCKS!!!
Surprisingly, I saw these at my local Wal-Mart over the weekend. $399 or $499 - I can't remember...
I just bought the 11.6" with the 3-cell battery for $349 from costco. Works great so far.