Acer Aspire One D255 netbook dual boots Android and XP for about $375

Attending the Taipei Computer Applications Show today? Lucky you. Then be sure to pick up your specially priced Acer Aspire One D255 netbook with dual booting Android and XP operating systems before leaving the venue. Otherwise, the NT$9,500 (about $300) 10.1-inch netbook configured with an Atom N450 processor, 1GB of DDR2 memory, 160GB hard disk, and 3-cell battery (with optional 6-cell) will cost you NT$11,900 (about $375) when it hits traditional retail channels sometime in the days ahead.

[Mr Blurrycam Posted Aug 5th 2010 2:06AM]

XP? Still?

[ok1 Google shitty programming Posted Aug 5th 2010 2:08AM]

@Mr Blurrycam

xp? and lmao at android. that belongs on crappy phones, not computers.

[uckApple Posted Aug 5th 2010 2:12AM]

@Mr Blurrycam

XP and Android is actually a pretty cool combo though

[Lennoko Posted Aug 5th 2010 2:13AM]

@ok1 Google shitty programming
If your gonna troll, at least make it interesting.

[JamesHD720 Posted Aug 5th 2010 2:13AM]

@ok1 Google shitty programming

Unless it's a crappy computer.

[AlienSix Posted Aug 5th 2010 2:14AM]

@ok1 Google shitty programming

Is that all you do all day? Must be pretty boring under the bridge

[JonnyB Posted Aug 5th 2010 2:15AM]

@ok1 Google shitty programming
That's funny you say that, last time I checked Android is beating everyones else's ass in the US BITCH! :)

[Mariohd277 Posted Aug 5th 2010 2:22AM]

@Mr Blurrycam well that's weird thought android was a phone os and Linux a computer os....

[Mr Blurrycam Posted Aug 5th 2010 2:26AM]

@Mariohd277

My guess is that the Andoid side will be more like a Splashtop kinda thing than a full blown OS.

[Michael Scrip Posted Aug 5th 2010 4:11AM]

@Mr Blurrycam

And this is why there aren't any good Android or Windows tablets yet.... they keep fuckin' around with netbooks!

[gabrielhernandez Posted Aug 5th 2010 9:43AM]

@Mr Blurrycam It's very cool that Acer has put Win XP as a choice. I like Android and think is cool for phone devices, I'd rather wait for Chrome OS to enter the netbook market in Q4 2010, however it's nice to have Android in a notebook to see if you can plug in external USB devices like you do in XP. For example can you plug a External hard drive in Android to play your H.264 videos and and your MP3 collection? If you can't do that, it's good to have Win XP for that purpose.

[sevenco Posted Aug 5th 2010 12:32PM]

@Mr Blurrycam better than windows 7 starter.

[AlienSix Posted Aug 5th 2010 2:13AM]

Mixing the past...

..With the future

Android Xp OS 3.0

[elibi Posted Aug 5th 2010 2:15AM]

@AlienSix If android is the future of PCs, then we are really going to see a very very black future.

[DaHarder Posted Aug 5th 2010 2:27AM]

@elibi

... if by black future' you mean Google's rather handsome choice of white text on a black background for Android, I'm All For It (at least for smaller devices like phones/tablets/slates)

[Rockchan Posted Aug 5th 2010 6:01AM]

@DaHarder

You can get the same "white text on a black background" by customising WinXp.

[AlienSix Posted Aug 5th 2010 2:15AM]

Which Android OS will it have?

[applehateboy Posted Aug 5th 2010 2:15AM]

Me likes dual-boot

[MastaQ Posted Aug 5th 2010 2:16AM]

1 GB memory? 3-cell battery? For $375? No thanks.

[DaHarder Posted Aug 5th 2010 2:28AM]

@MastaQ

Agreed... way too pricy for those meager specs.

[DaHarder Posted Aug 5th 2010 2:22AM]

This is exactly the approach that manufacturers bent on marketing Windows 7 slates/tablets need to take.

Make either Android 2.x or a WinMo7s the 'quick-boot' OS, and have Windows 7 available for those times when a 'Big Boy' OS is required.

The Best of Both Worlds!

[JakeInDC Posted Aug 5th 2010 2:37AM]

yawn

[Einlander Posted Aug 5th 2010 2:44AM]

Can we agree to let xp die?

[bbqbspareribs Posted Aug 5th 2010 3:05AM]

@Einlander

but remember

http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/12/microsoft-says-74-percent-of-work-pcs-still-use-windows-xp-exte/

and

http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/24/microsoft-promises-to-support-windows-xp-until-2014/

[Information Central Posted Aug 5th 2010 5:50AM]

Not until Windows 7's UI regressions have been addressed.

[alonsop Posted Aug 5th 2010 2:46AM]

There's nothing like xp for a platform like this, windows 7 is it but on this acer android and xp is perfect

[remytech Posted Aug 5th 2010 3:02AM]

thinking android, but window xp lame i dont want to feel like im in 2002 back again

[azs Posted Aug 5th 2010 3:53AM]

You don't need to buy this. Just put liveandroid on your usb and boot your computer up. :|

[Information Central Posted Aug 5th 2010 5:48AM]

WTF is up with this company? See, the second model should have been the Aspire 2. Then the 3. And so on. We should buy computers from a company that can't count past 1?

[LANjackal Posted Aug 5th 2010 9:49AM]

XP is definitely a superFAIL on Acer's part. I've never liked netbooks anyway. Pass.

[RowdyReptile Posted Aug 5th 2010 12:58PM]

So... wait... isn't this the same computer/model number that was supposed to house the new N550? The direct linked engadget article says so, and I can't find any other reports of a change in the plans. So is it the dual core? or the same old single N450?

[impreziv Posted Aug 5th 2010 1:11PM]

I have been waiting a while to get a decent Android Tablet, or Netbook. but these dual-boot Windows/Android netbooks are pure trash. the reason I want android, is to break free from the x86 CPU. it is a serious battery hog. make a Dual-core Snapdragon 1.2ghz (ARM cpu) netbook or Tablet, and load it with Android.