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Acer Aspire One (XP-Based)

80

Very Good

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Pros
Spacious keyboard for its size
Great value price
Cons
Poor battery life
Maddening mouse pad buttons

Performance: Poor: 55
Features: Good: 73
Design: Very Good: 80

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS2	1314
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX	1027
Battery Life (Video Playback in hh:mm)	2:16:38 AM
Firefox 2	766
Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1	606
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0	767
Multitasking	1111
Nero 7 Ultra Edition	938
Number of Included Batteries	1
Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0	631
WorldBench 6 Score	34
WorldBench 6 Word Score	Good

What You Should Know about the Aspire One (XP-Based)

Not Much RAM for Multitasking

The more RAM your laptop has, the faster programs will run and the greater number of windows you can work in at one time. If your needs are simple and you rarely do more than two things at once on your PC, the relatively modest amount of memory that comes installed in inexpensive laptops will be enough. Today the standard amount of RAM shipped in most PCs is 2GB. If you like to multitask--say, you want to launch a search for a file and start backing up data to a disc while you watch a news video--you need more memory.

Reviewed by: bklynlinda25

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: can go anywhere, & fits into a small purse, a knapsack,etc.

Weaknesses: doesnt burn cds..

Overall Evaluation: i love working on this mini. its faster than my full size laptop, is great for my small hands, is convenient to travel with& does almost as much as my full size laptop. baby blue, is my first serious TOY, im so glad i bought her. im writing on her right now.
Reviewed by: junjunxu

Duration of ownership:

Strengths: Mobile without noticeable compromising.

Weaknesses: Original 3-cell battery lasts only 2 hours.

Overall Evaluation: I bought this just because it was a decent deal at first place. After using for almost 3 month it actually becomes my main laptop and mobile reader. It's much lighter than my 15-inch toshiba lappy, around 2.2lbs with 3-cell battery and about 2.8lbs with 6-cell battery. The atom cpu is not slow at all for daily home tasking like surfing the web, checking email etc. The only shortage is the 3-cell battery that only lasts for about 2 hours with wifi always on. I got a 6-cell battery from ebay, which gives me almost 5 hours power time.