Acer Aspire One D250, 10.1-Inch LED LCD Netbook, Intel Atom N270, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB, Windows 7 Starter & Android, up to 6 Hours Battery Life, Webcam, (Black)

I bought this product to replace an ageing laptop. My biggest worry was that netbook would not have enough processing power to cope with the applications I would want to run on it. I thought that having the dual operating system would allow me a quick way to access emails and the internet should I find Windows 7 too slow. I have not found that the case, the netbook running Windows 7 Starter is more than up to the task. I am currently running the following programs with no performance issues to report:
* Microsoft Office XP
* Itunes
* Spotify
* Norton Internet Security 2009
* Firefox
When I bought the product I was not sure what "Windows 7 Starter". From what I can see (and more information can be found at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/compare) it's a cut down version of Windows 7 Home Premium to run on netbooks. It doesn't have all the features of Windows 7 Home Premium but I would argue you wouldn't need these features for the netbook.

Out of the box the netbook takes about 30 minutes to setup and automatically found my wireless network and away I went. The Netbook comes with a 60 day trial version of Office 2007 and can be easily activated to the full version by buying a license from Microsoft. Personally I don't like the new office so installed office XP on it instead.
The netbook also comes with a trial version of McAfee but I had an existing license to Norton Internet Security 2007 so I put that on instead.

The netbook is small and light, I find the screen easy to read given its size and have no problems with the small keyboard (and I do have quite big fingers!). I haven't ran it for an extended period on the battery yet so cannot assess that. However, the battery clips in at the back so I guess a spare one could be purchased and easily swapped if it was an issue.

As with most netbooks (and the reason why they can be so small) there is no dvc/cd drive so you will need to buy one of them if you want to install software you may have. Additionally you will have to buy a DVD codec if you want to watch DVDs (typically these are around £10). I have used Itunes to purchase and watch tv shows and the netbook plays these fine with out "blockiness" or jitter.

I have tried the Android Operating System but rarely use it Windows 7 is up to the task of all the needs I want and is relatively quick to start up.

Overall, I find this product excellent value for money and surpasses my expectations of what I was expecting from a netbook.

Product: It does exactly what I wanted. The product is v.good and the price even better.
A little slower than a fully processed laptop - no more than expected but good enough for me.
Screen sharp and bright. 10" def. smallest I could tolerate but perfect for reading.
Op sys: Win7 works supprisingly well on a low powered machine. use it 25% time.
Loaded Open Office - works fine on this.
Android: love the speed of startup and closure; use it 75%. Love it better next version.
Not like like the fixed initial link to Google (merit is a better reason to use)
Think I need to be better techie on Android to add tools/viewers, etc.
Seller
Service: Delivery swift. I needed little from service but the delivery feedback was fine.

Overall: great buy for money. I use it to catch up with news and tech info.
10" screen great for that (sizewise same as average book - the ones with words and small pics).
I don't play games (on it or other machines). For viewing clips its great. Wouldn't use it to share a film - its too small for that.

I bought my acer aspire one with Windows 7 starter but no android.
(The aspire one d250 is a great product.)
So I downloaded a (free) android.iso from [w android-x86 org] and stuck it on a bootable 4GB USB stick.
Now I've got a google phone on my netbook (well nearly).
Running the iso in Oracle's (Sun's) Virtuabox emulator means it will run under Windows as well - no USB stick needed.

The iso also has a marketplace and is always updateable.
There is in addition an option to intall the iso to the hard disk to create a dual-boot machine (Windows 7 / Android) but I haven't tried this out.

Next is the Android SDK and the "Hello World" program.
I am in GEEK LOVE with my aspire one running the Android "Marvin"