Great features with little compromises and at an affordable price

Category: Review on Acer Aspire One (1.6 GHz / 1 GB / 160 GB / 8.9 in) Laptop

Posted by: 3-Jun

Strengths: Easily portable, affordable price

Weaknesses: Slightly glossy screen, poor battery life

When you take into consideration the size of the Acer Aspire One Laptop, its large and easy-to-use keyboard is worth mentioning. The laptop is light, lean and well-constructed and comes along with a lot of commendable features. The Wi-Fi connection is smooth when used with this laptop. The small fit laptop is very convenient if you travel a lot on business. A huge, well-secured bezel keeps the 8.9-inch display in place, while the hard exterior protects the laptop from any possible damage. It comes with two storage card slots, wherein the second SD card slot is for dedicated system memory.

It is does not support Microsoft Office and Windows XP. Nevertheless, you do have secure alternatives for both. You get OpenOffice.org and Linpus Linux Lite.

The machine has slight flaws that you can overlook, especially at the price it is being offered. You cannot burn CDs on this laptop. Its three cell battery only lasts for about 2 hours if your Wi-Fi is on. It has only 8GB of onboard storage and 512 MB of RAM. Software blots and flanking mouse buttons are other minor issues. I personally feel that the Acer Aspire One Laptop can serve you well, if your needs are simple.