Acer Aspire One AOA110-1588 8.9-Inch Sapphire Netbook - 2.5 Hour Battery Life

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 5 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001M4HEW0
• Item model number: LU.S030B.043
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (85 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #420 in Computers & PC Hardware (See Bestsellers in Computers & PC Hardware)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 18, 2008

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description
A great choice for students, this affordable ultra-lightweight Acer Aspire One (AOA110-1588) weighs just over 2 pounds and includes the familiar Windows XP operating system and 16 GB of storage--an 8 GB internal NAND flash memory drive and an included 8 GB SDHC memory card. It has a vibrant 8.9-inch CrystalBrite WSVGA LED backlit display, integrated webcam for easy video chatting, and Intel's latest mobile processor--the Atom. Offering a cool sapphire blue chassis, the netbook's smooth surface is comfortable to touch, and it's accented with distinctive details, such as the attractive orange hinge ring.

A great choice for students, it comes with Windows XP Home, 16 GB of total storage, and a 3-cell battery for up to 2.5 hours of battery life.

Weighing just 2.17 pounds, the stylish Acer Aspire One goes anywhere with you.

Designed especially for mobile devices, the 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor uses a brand new design structure new hafnium-infused circuitry, which reduces electrical current leakage in transistors to conserve energy and gives you more time away from the wall outlet--up to 2.5 hours with the included 3-cell battery. Other features include 1 GB of installed RAM (1.5 GB maximum), 54g Wi-Fi networking (802.11b/g), multi-format memory card reader, multiple USB ports, and built-in email, web browsing, and digital media applications.

It comes preinstalled with the Microsoft Windows XP Home operating system, which offers more experienced users an enhanced and innovative experience that incorporates Windows Live features like Windows Live Messenger for instant messaging and Windows Live Mail for consolidated email accounts on your desktop.

Processor
The Intel Atom processor uses a brand new design structure that packs in 47 million transistors into a single chip sized at just 22mm (0.87 inches), and it uses just 2.5 watts of power--less than 1/10 of the 35 watts used by an Intel Core 2 Duo processor--for excellent battery management. This 1.6 GHz Atom N270 processor also includes a power-optimized front side bus of 533 MHz for faster data transfer on demanding mobile applications and a 512 KB L2 cache (which temporarily stores data).

Storage
This version of the Aspire One comes with 8 GB of NAND flash memory solid-state drive (SSD), which is adequate for students and those who want to use the laptop primarily as an email and web surfing device. Faster and more reliable, flash memory provides a rapid boot-up and quicker access to applications while improving battery life. Flash memory is also more reliable than hard disk memory, mainly because there are no moving parts. Since data is written to stationary flash memory instead of a spinning hard disk, you have less risk of hardware problems with the hard disk when you're on the move. It's an ideal feature for a travel notebook where knocks and sudden movements are par for the course.

In addition, this Aspire One comes with an 8 GB Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) memory card--great for storing digital media. The Asprire One has one dedicated SD memory card slot for the included SDHC card as well as a second multi-in-one card reader that's compatible with five different types of memory cards--Secure Digital, MultiMediaCard, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO and xD-Picture Card--for maximum flexibility. The additional SD card slot seamlessly integrates with the internal NAND flash module as an added storage device. The ability to have both a multi-in-1 card reader and a SD card reader at the same time allows you to download photos from the multi-in-1 to share with others and store to the SD card as an internal storage device simultaneously.

Memory
The 1 GB of installed RAM (512 MB onboard memory and one 512 MB DIMM, 533 MHz) can be expanded to a maximum of 1.5 GB of RAM,

DVD/CD Drive
Because of its size, the Aspire One does not come with an integrated optical drive, but optional CD/DVD read/write drives can be connected to the laptop via one of the three USB ports, enabling you to create your music mixes, burn movies to DVD, and more.

Connectivity
This Acer Aspire One notebook has an integrated 54g wireless LAN (Acer InviLink) that's compatible with 802.11b and 802.11g networks and offers Acer's SignalUp technology for enhanced antenna efficiency. This notebook provides the following connections:

• 3 USB 2.0 ports for connecting a wide range of peripherals--from digital cameras to MP3 players
• Secure Digital (SD) card reader, also compatible with MultiMedia cards (MMCs)
• Multi-in-one card reader supports SD, MMC, Memory Stick/Memory Stick PRO, and XD Picture Cards
• 1 VGA monitor port
• 1 headphone jack and 1 microphone jack
• RJ-45 port for 10/100 Fast Ethernet connection
• 56K modem port (V.90)

Screen, Video and Audio
The 8.9-inch screen has a WSVGA resolution (1024 x 600) and support for up a 262K color depth. Video is powered by the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950, which uses shared video memory with the main memory. Acer's CrystalBrite display technology guarantees the best possible visual experience by preventing the diffusion of surrounding light and internal ray. Compared to normal TFT LCDs, Acer CrystalBrite technology is able to read color coordinates more accurately, thus minimizing distortion and creating high-fidelity colors in all environments.

This notebook includes an integrated audio card with Microsoft DirectSound compatibility, and it includes two stereo speakers.

What's in the Box
This package contains the Acer Aspire One notebook PC (AOA110-1588; LU.S030B.043), rechargeable 3-cell lithium-ion battery, AC adapter, and operating instructions. It is backed by a limited warranty for parts and labor for one year from date of purchase.

Product Description
Aspire One Atom N270 Intel 945GSE, 8.9-inch Display; 1GB Memory, 8GB+8GB SDD; Integrated MR; UMA only, Webcam, NO HDMI, 802.11 b/g Wireless Card; 3 cell battery; XP Home; Blue

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good value, great size, February 16, 2009

By	William T. Anderson (The Garden State) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As other reviews have said, the initial setup process is SLOW. Be patient, and put the laptop aside until it is done. Once the install was done, then the ubiquitous Windows Updates (28 in all for me), take their pound of flesh, er, time. Once it finally is ready for you, it boots and runs reasonably well. After a few days of use, I removed the McAfee antivirus 60 day trial that was included with the PC and installed Avast! free antivirus instead. Response is noticeably quicker with this lightweight antivirus compared to the bloated McAfee.

Overall, the laptop is great value and very convenient size. Performance is about what you would expect with such a slow processor, but it's quite useful for web browsing (I use Firefox) and lightweight word processing. It wouldn't suit many people as their only PC, but for those trips when you want to pack lightly, or a day on the road or at a remote office, it's great. The 16 Gbytes of memory in the hard-drive-free version doesn't sound like much, but the installed applications take much less than half of this, so it's pretty reasonable unless you want to load a huge Itunes library or lots of videos.

For it's intended application as a super-portable web browser, it's a perfect fit.

33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Odd pauses, is it the SSD drive??, December 31, 2008

By	P. Daniel Knabb - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Okay, I've had 2 of these mini laptops now. The first I bought on vacation in North Carolina at a well known chain electronics store. When I started using the laptop, there were unusually long pauses during initial setup. When you first power the laptop on it initiates 7 updates/installs. On 2 of 7 it took so long, I just set it aside and came back later. Same thing with both laptops.

After that initial install, I didn't have any problems, but as you worked on the computer, you still had these unusually long pauses, I'm talking 15-30 seconds, long enough that you'd start to think the computer had locked or you hadn't quite clicked on the icon.

Rather quickly I noticed that the right keypad button wasn't quite right. When you pressed it, you had to push it -way- down, almost a 1/4 of an inch. I finally decided to take the laptop back because of this, concerned that whatever was defective would get worse with use. I went to the local chain store here in Florida and swapped it out for another. When I got it home, I found that it had the same problem. I'll be returning it for a refund this morning.

Other things I noticed. First, I really liked the laptop. I bought it to replace the laptop I tune my race car with. Between the battery life and the small size, this one was ideal. It has plenty of USB ports. It comes with an 8gb SD card and it has 2 card readers. Also, even though this is a mini, it has a monitor port (not DVI), so you can still set this up like a workstation. This laptop is so small, thin, and light, I could see someone working in the field slipping it in a large pocket to free up their hands.

However, I'm not sold on the SSD drive. I think the long pauses were due to the hard drive, especially on that initial install. Also, this one is only 8gb, so why did Acer install Google Desktop and MS Office 60 day trial? I freed up .5gb just by uninstalling the frivolous software.

Also, the same defect, the keypad key, on 2 different laptops. One is a fluke, two is a pattern. If I had bought them from the same location, I would have thought it was a bad lot, and it still may be, but I think that is less likely with one from NC, the other from FL. I checked the floor model in FL and the keypad button worked just like you would expect, so this isn't a "feature."

If you are considering this laptop, I would seriously consider the version with a regular hard drive, rather than the SSD. Hopefully the repeat problem I had with the keypad was a particular lot and will be avoided, just by buying from Amazon.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mixed Emotions, March 2, 2009

By	John Dayton - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Pros: Price point $258 can't be beat - love the form factor(very small) but a very usable keyboard - excellent display and options easily between external display, both or either. Runs extremely cool, never worry about overheating - All solid state no HDD to leave you high and dry. Very good for surfing web - does great job with skype video calls - Runs open office software really well -- built in web cam very sharp with built in microphone - very nice mouse pad built in and will run a usb mouse concurrently - 3 usb ports and one dedicated flash card for more memory and an additional multi card reader - Built in wifi does a very good job with decent range.

Cons: Seems a little slow but I'm comparing to a dual core desktop with more memory - it is very good if you only run one thing at a time - DOCUMENTATION SUCKS nothing on many of the features and hardware issues like how to upgrade memory THIS ALMOST GOT IT A 3 RATING! - no optical drive but uses desktop drives when networked and the desktop drive is shared - same with printers

I'm a little hard on the cons because I like to tinker with these things - but it really is great if you need it for a non-tech person who wants to do email (Thunderbird) or surf the net (Firefox).

Not the best as a primary computer but great as a second machine that you can pick up and go with immediately - weighs around 2 pounds.