New Acer Aspire One Netbook Meets Energy Star Accreditation

March 7, 2009 by admin
Filed under: Acer Laptop Reviews 

Acer Aspire One Red
Acer is looking to secure its firm position further in the UK netbook market with the latest update in their Aspire One series. In their new range, Acer has made two major improvements:

  1. Upgrading the netbook model to suit a 10″ screen so as to enable “optimal internet browsing”. With this improvement, they has actually been able to make the netbook even lighter; down from 1.26kg to only 1.18kg.
  2. Second major upgrading has been the netbook power management. The new Aspire One is one of the first netbooks that meets the Energy Star 4.0 requirements, where the user can expected an amazing up to 7.0 hours of battery life.

Beside those above upgrades, Acer also included an Acer Crystal Eye webcam, 802.11b/g and Bluetooth in the new netbook. It has also an option to come with an embedded SIM or WiMax module. In term of the design, special attention has been focused on maintaining the styling of its previous models. You can get 4 range of colour options includes blue, white, red and black.

The new Acer Aspire One comes with an Intel Atom processor, Mobile Intel 945GSE Express chipset (or 82801GBM chipset), 2.0GB RAM, 160GB hard drive and plus a multi-card reader for expandable memory and storage options.

The Windows XP version of this netbook will be released in the market by February this year, on the other hand for the Linux model will be available in sometime during March.

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