85 of 85 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Aspire one - great little netbook, 28 Jan 2009
This review is from: Acer Aspire One A150 Netbook, Windows XP Home, 8.9-inch Crystalbrite TFT LCD, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, Intel Atom Processor N270 1.60 Ghz (Blue) (Electronics)
Great product for the price - although I'd wait for it to be sub-£300, which is what it was when I got it. Bought as a supplement for my old laptop (6yrs old+) and 1st impressions are good. Screen crystal clear considering how small it is, good build quality for such a small laptop/netbook. If you want something to surf the net, and use for word processing rather than intensive gaming or graphics then this is well worth considering. Wireless connection is far better than the Netgear card I had for my other laptop - it connected quickly and has a good connection speed. Whilst the lack of a built in optical drive takes a bit of getting used to, there are ways around that - using either an external drive (which I had already) or the network connection. As I've said, wait for it to be on offer - for the current price there are some full size laptops around, but for what I want, it's fab!!!
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40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great little netbook!, 24 Feb 2009
This review is from: Acer Aspire One A150 Netbook, Windows XP Home, 8.9-inch Crystalbrite TFT LCD, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, Intel Atom Processor N270 1.60 Ghz (Blue) (Electronics)
This is a fantastic little netbook, its incredibly light and easy to use, the screen is small but I have no difficulty using it, and after a bit of getting used to, the keyboard and touchpad (although small) are very good, and again - easy to use.
The laptop is powerful enough to run most applications, and to my supprise the graphics card can handle most pre-2005 games, any many modern ones requiring 256MB dedicated memory, the intergrated graphics card has about 224MB of ram itself. On the practial side it runs very smoothly with microsoft office 2007, probrably helped by its 1GB of ram.
Battery life, however, is a little dissapointing, using less intensive programs I have only managed to get 2.5hrs off it, but considering its size and weight this has to be compromised.
Build-wise it is as robust as anything, and seems to cope rattling around in my bag every day very well. It has had one accidental drop (of about 3 feet), and all that happened was the battery popped out, not even a scratch on it!
Before buying this I was a little reluctant to buy acer, as reviews have shown they are not the most reliable, unfortunately the first one I was sent was faulty, probrably a problem in the bios where it powered off after about 2 mins. However amazon were fantastic and sent me a replacement straight away, which has been perfect so far.
Overall I would strongly recomend this to anyone looking for a powerful little netbook. It is almost unrivaled as far as value for money goes, and I am so pleased with it I have recently purchased another for my Mother who also seems to be getting along with it great too!
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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Small but with big ideas..., 27 Feb 2009
This review is from: Acer Aspire One A150 Netbook, Windows XP Home, 8.9-inch Crystalbrite TFT LCD, 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, Intel Atom Processor N270 1.60 Ghz (Blue) (Electronics)
Small PC which is very good for basic word processing and travel-ability! The keyboard is a little smaller from conventional keyboards however very easy to get used to. I love the fact that it is so compact and not as bulky as most of the current basic laptops on the market! Definitely worth having unless you want to do more complex things than just basic pc stuff like internet brwsing, word processing, music and the occasional video/film.
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