Acer's dual-boot Aspire One AOD250 netbook gets doubly official
By Donald Melanson 
posted Oct 15th 2009 1:51PM
posted Oct 15th 2009 1:51PM
Alright, so we've already seen this one in the wild and up for pre-order, but it's not everyday that someone releases a dual-boot Android / Windows XP netbook, so we can understand Acer wanting to get extra official with its new Aspire One AOD250 model. Of course, this one's about as standard as it gets once you move beyond its dual OS nature, including an 10.1-inch WSVGA screen, Atom N280 processor, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, and a six-cell battery. You can get it in your choice of four different colors though, and the $349.99 list price is certainly right for anyone looking for an easy way to jump into Android.
i've heard it comes with http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/img/pcw/docs/212/191/acer-01.jpg
A depressed Asian woman?
what. you no like?
*sigh* I figured as much. Looks like K is roaming the threads on a vengeance trip.
Oh Mark, I'm going to report you because everyone is doing the same... whaaa waaa waaa
I'm waiting to see what releases with Windows 7 next week. I'm hoping for the lowdown on that updated HP or maybe some fresh spec bumps on current netbooks.
Is it just me or am I the only one that's kinda over slow netbooks. I own Asus 10".
Maybe it's cuz I'm spoiled with iPhone 3gs speed. Maybe that's it.
So you're over a 1.66GHz x86 processor because you've been spoiled by your 600MHz ARM one? Makes sense.
Its about the software. *nix OS sometimes just run faster, but its really just about writing optimized code.
Android on a netbook is the strangest idea since fruit in beer.
ehmm... So this is the fastest "official" Android device on the planet?
Wait, is it an official x86 build of Android? How do we get our mits on that? I know of community made ones like Androidx86. Is that what Acer is using?
Wasn't x86 compatibility added in Cupcake?
@Mark (I hate the Engadget commenting system. Can't even respond to you properly, have to respond to myself.)
Where does it say that? I can't find anything that says x86 was added to Android. I know the SDK is used on x86 platforms.
Took a bit of digging but from CNET's article at the time: "The Linux kernel upon which Android runs has been upgraded to version 2.6.27, and "basic x86 support" has been added." I thought I remember seeing that on the official change notes but then checking it now, the device compatibility link just doesn't go anywhere... odd...
I'm buying one.
If just for curiosity - at the end of the day if the Android is useless, you've got the XP, I guess that's why they put it on.
Although I will of course replace XP with 7.
@Mark
Still LOLLLL from your reply to Truth....
OH, it ALSO has XP? ok, thats different
To have some point they should have stuck a secondary super low power ARM processor in there for Andriod - like Dell's Latitude ON. That would mean you could switch between full atom "power" (in the loosest sense of the work) and super battery life. As it is, it seems somewhat pointless - why not just dualboot with a regular netbook flavour of linux if you're going to dual boot at all?