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Acer Aspire One D250 Android netbook previewed: disappointing – SlashGear

admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:10:26 +0000

Acer’s Android netbook has been regular grist for the rumor-mill, with delays tipped, buyer apathy prediced, along with vehement denials from the company themselves. So it’s with no small amount of interest that we read one of the first reviews of the Acer Aspire One D250 Android – as the netbook appears to have been labelled – courtesy of ePrice. They found the AOD250 to be “semi-finished”, with Android perhaps unsurprisingly causing many of the issues.

The AOD250 dual-boots between Windows XP and Android, and at least that process is relatively straightforward. Twin power buttons might have been neat, but in fact you get a reboot dialog – which you can see in the gallery below – offering a choice of Microsoft’s or the open-source OS. Booting into Android took a mere 20 seconds, while shut-downs were almost instantaneous; however it seems that Acer have done little to rework Android to the larger netbook display.

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First Impressions of the 11.6-Inch Gateway LT3100 with AMD Inside

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:22:32 +0000

There may be reports that Acer is skeptical about putting out its 11.6 inch Aspire One on shelves, but its brother Gateway seems to be sliding into the same space. However, Gateway also seems to be shaking up the specs on the inside of its 11.6-inch LT3100 by forgoing an Intel solution (nor Atom or CULV) for an AMD Athlon processor.

The Gateway LT3103u will be available at Best Buy, according to the company’s site, and will start for $399. It will be outfitted with a 1.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 CPU, ATI Radeon X1270 graphics, Windows Vista Home Basic SP1, 2GB of RAM and a 250GB hard drive.

We caught a glimpse of the LT3100’s hardware at Computex earlier this month. The chassis while very similar to the 11.6-inch Acer Aspire One has a few key differences. Firstly the lid is styled after Gateway’s MD or MC Series. The glossy black and red units that were on display have a silver buckle centered on the top of the lid. Nevertheless, it has the same compact build and is 1.03-inches thick and weighs just about 3 pounds.

Underneath the lid the LT3100 has the same 11.6 1366 x 768 resolution, LED-backlit display as the Acer. It also has the same full size keyboard which is quite comfortable; we like the small spacing between the flat keys. The trackpad is styled slightly different, and has a scroll bar and silver, single mouse button. We are looking forward to testing the LT3100 especially given its AMD organs.

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DeviceVM Brings SplashTop to Acer Nettop, Sony VAIO NW Notebooks

admin — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:17:59 +0000

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If Vista’s lengthy boot times have got ya down, DeviceVM may have the cure for your load time blues. This morning, DeviceVM announced that it’s bringing its Splashtop “instant-on” solution (which lets users access media and the Web without booting into Windows), to two new platforms: the Acer Aspire Revo nettop and the Sony VAIO NW notebook line.

The partnership with Acer marks the beginning of a collaboration between the two companies that will see “RevoBoot” (the branded name for this implementation of Splashtop) paired with Nvidia’s Ion platform for enhanced multimedia capability. The Splashtop-powered version of nettop will be initially introduced in Europe, but there isn’t any word on a U.S. release.

Splashtop is also making its way into the Sony VAIO NW family of notebooks. The systems in the line will feature a dedicated Web button entitled “Quick Web Access” that will launch Splashtop with the push of a button.

Although the “instant-on” name doesn’t quite live up to the hype (it took us approximately 30 seconds between booting Splashtop and connecting to the Web in tests with other PCs), it can be a welcome relief from severely long loads.

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