Acer AspireRevo Desktop PC Review
мая 31, 2010
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Contrary to all the late night infomercials, size really doesn't matter, especially when talking about the Acer Aspire One series of netbooks. Compact, yet powerful, an Acer can do just about anything the big laptops can do, without putting a strain on your budget or your back.
Acer Netbooks Available with 8.9 or 10.1 Inch Displays
Before my contract ended at my last employer, my supervisor wanted everyone on the team to lug their desktops down to one conference room, which he affectionately designated as “The War Room.”
Instead of loading a tower and a 17-inch monitor onto my chair and wheeling the whole system downstairs, I simply grabbed my Acer 8.9-inch netbook and walked down to the conference room.
After connecting to the company network via the built-in Ethernet port, I was able to access my desktop remotely and perform all the duties necessary to complete the task at hand. Over the course of the next 12 hours, my disbelieving supervisor kept criticizing my netbook, wondering how I could get anything done on that tiny screen. At the end of the day, he finally conceded that the Acer Aspire One had a very clear screen and could handle the workload.
For business applications like mine, the 8.9-inch screen is okay, but the 10.1-inch Acer Aspire One might have kept my boss off my back for most of the day.
Acer Aspire One Features
Efficiency is the watchword with the Acer Aspire One, which has an array of features that include the following:
• Three USB ports. This makes it easy to connect a USB mouse or a couple of flash drives.
• 160 GB hard drive. My Acer came equipped with a robust 160 GB hard drive, but some models have a more modest 120 GB drive.
• 3 or 6-cell batteries. On a full charge, a 3-cell battery can keep the netbook running for up to 3 hours, but the 6-cell battery will let the Acer Aspire One run as long as 7 hours, depending on what kinds of applications you are running.
• 1 GB RAM. A bit conservative on the memory, the Aspire One typically comes with 1 GB of RAM, which can be upgraded to 1.5 with an optional memory card.
• Multimedia slots. This netbook can handle different kinds of external memory storage, including SD cards and some memory sticks.
• Wireless connectivity. The Acer connects effortlessly to wireless hot spots. I use it at home to connect to my personal wireless router.
The Acer Aspire One: Perfect for Road Warriors
For the last couple of years, I covered the comic book convention circuit, attending such events as the San Diego Comic-Con and Wonder-Con. With so many people in attendance, though, it definitely was difficult to carry a full-sized laptop with a 17-inch screen from conference room to conference room.
The Acer Aspire One, on the other hand, was fairly easy to balance on my lap or position on a small table. I was able to connect to a wireless network and upload stories to the Associated Content website without much effort.
Where/How to Buy an Acer
Over the last few months, I noticed that most electronics vendors, in particular Radio Shack and Comp USA, have jumped into the netbook pool with both feet. Radio Shack does offer some good deals on the Acer Aspire One if you also sign up for two years of AT&T wireless network service. Comp USA offers similar models for a few hundred dollars, but these are refurbished netbooks.
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Donnells Weblog
2010-03-24
By Honda (earth)
paid < $350 from b&h.
pros: xp home (not win7 starter), small, light (compared to regular laptops, even 12″), decent screen, keys (not keyboard) feel nice and responsive (not rickety clickety things)
cons: keyboard feels a touch cramped, touchpad is kinda small (not sure how it could be bigger), and over sensitive at times (but configurable – somewhat), actual desktop (w/icons) display *after* boot+login in is almost as long as boot up
i’m a pro photographer traveling abroad for the first time with pro equipment and need storage/backup for digifiles. i decided against those stand-alone storage drives for the same or more money as a netbook. i’m willing to accept a larger device (netbook) to have more functionality (web, documents, etc.) with a larger footprint over a single function storage drive with a much smaller footprint. heck, i’m even gonna pick up a $80 usb powered drive as double backup for the road. if i wanted double backup with a stand-alone storage drive, i would be spending $800 or more. this way i’m still under $450.
i’ve wanted a netbook since before they were widely available. i would buy a mac netbook for $600 if they offered one, but pcs are the only thing going at this size. i’ve waited and waited for apple to respond and they haven’t. i saw a review that said that macbook air is apple’s netbook. right. it’s far too expensive and far too big to compete in the netbook market. … oh, there is the ipad – just an oversized itouch/iphone. 64GB max? no hdd? no usb port? no thank you.
anyhoo, it’s a nice little box anyways. wireless networks should be simplicity these days. this unit won’t accept a dhcp address automatically from my wireless router so i have to config it manually. rrrr.. got it working without too many hours down the drain. then i tried samsung’s “easy network manager” (enm). after setting up a home and work location, it decided to stop recognizing my available wireless router. saw all the others in my building except mine. rrrr… tinkered with the router and the network is back again – all has the same basic config, but i’m not using the “enm” to mangle my network settings any more.. apple’s network manager is clean and intuitive by comparison.
i’m not listing the wireless config probs i had as a “con” because i’m chalking it up to pilot error (all except for that beknighted samsung enm). (see edit below)
the form factor and design is not super great, but like the subject says, it ain’t a mac.
top cover is glossy: i guess i will have to be satisfied with a scratch and smudge magnet. i might consider taking super fine steel wool to the cover to “matte” it down.
glossy screen: i have yet to meet anyone that actually likes them, but glossy is the only thing going these days. no steel wool to this sensitive device.
vga out? how quaint! what century are we talking about here? *all* new output devices accept dvi or hdmi. no laptops seem to understand this. gimme a mac.
sd port? cool! but most pro cameras use cf cards, tho my 1d’s all have dual cf and sd slots, i only use the sd card as reserve. +1 point for this pc laptop – no mac has a sd slot.
6-cell slide out batt? very cool! slide the thing out and swap in another .. for ~$75, that’s not too bad of an idea. again, mac might start taking notes here.
9.5 hour batt life? i have had it at work for 9+ hours, used it for music/email/ftp/etc. not super hard duty and got 8+ hours out of it. i don’t even bring the charger with me. that’s not too shabby. will have a better idea after my trip mac??
no native raw file built-in? sweet lord.. mac’s had this for *years*. got me a good solution on this, but c’mon..
EDIT 3/30: still pretty happy with this box
the wireless network connection was definitely pilot error. i made a couple quick mods to the wireless router and now it connects via dhcp just fine in at home and work. gotta try some other locations. other info: i can connect to my mac from xp no problem. not the reverse. it looks like xp home doesn’t want you to use the box as a ’server’. researched this backwards and forwards and still cannot find an answer. ok, so i always upload pix from the pc to the mac- not the end of the world.
i’ll try to give this an update after my trip..
It's marketing.
Do you know the story of Corona beer?
Originally it was brewed for people who couldn't afford the beer that was out there at the moment.
Then they relaunched there products in other countries at a high end price.
Turning it in a luxury beer, rather then a cheap beer.
Same story with apple computers, Lexus for cars, Hugo Boss with fragrances.
People don't have a sense of reality. Simple primal instinct.
Men want lots of stuff. Woman want men with lots of stuff.
If people could really achieve objectiveness, we would buy cars that only had the necessary and not a Ferrari.
We would buy a 5$ sweat suits, instead of brands. Because those 5$ would simply keep us warm, thus makes more sense.
We wouldn't buy huge houses, but just big enough for our needs.
We wouldn't fight wars over our indifferences, instead we would realize we are all on this planet together.
And we have to some how make it work.
On the other hand we would be extinct. We wouldn't reproduce.
Why make a child, if it is just going to die in 90 years.
Why live a life without any real purpose or heading.
If we didn't want, we wouldn't be here to not want.
Apple Netbook Claim Chowder
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Two days ago, Apple announced its financial results for the quarter ended September 26. The company sold 3 million Macs, of which 2.3 million were laptops, and booked $1.67 billion in profit. Not one of those 2.3 million laptops was a “netbook”.
14 October 2008, Doug Aamoth at CrunchGear: “Five Reasons Why an Apple Netbook Is a No-Brainer”:
When asked today about the possibility of an Apple netbook, Steve
Jobs said something to the effect of, “The market is just
getting started — we’ll see how it goes.”Huh? Here’s how the netbook market’s going, Steve: pretty much
every major computer company has a netbook but you. Apple’s a
prime candidate for a netbook, too.
20 January 2009, Brian Caulfield at Forbes: “Apple’s Real Problem: Netbooks:
The real problem is how Apple’s portfolio of expensive gear
— particularly notebooks — will fare as the recession
starts to bite.
21 January 2009, Brian X. Chen at Wired Gadget Lab: “Apple Still Oblivious to Netbook Opportunity”. Amazingly, ten months later, they remain equally oblivious.
18 March 2009, Shane O’Neill at PC World: “Recession Breathes Life Into Windows PCs as Apple Gasps for Air”:
At this point, I’m going to stop asking when Apple will
acknowledge these dark days we live in because I think the answer
is never. Maybe Apple should just be a bull market company. When
times are lean, it should pack up like a traveling carnival or
disappear like a baseball team in winter and not come back until
everybody’s rich and happy again.
24 March 2009, Scott Moritz at TheStreet.com: “Apple’s Netbook Foray Will Flop”
Nonetheless, design hubris and slumping sales will cause Apple to
tap a hot segment of computer market.
So Apple will be forced to enter the “netbook” market due to slumping MacBook sales, eh?
19 August 2009, Charles Moore at The Apple Blog: “Lack of Netbook, Price Hurting Apple in This Year’s Back-to-School Market”. That would be the back-to-school period which just ended, with Apple selling 2.3 million laptops at an average price of $1,265.
As Jason Snell put it, imagine how much money Apple could have lost if only it had a netbook.