NetBook Review

The recent Display Search Report reported that almost 70% netbook market share are carved up two brand. Acer Aspire One account for 38.3%, Asus Eee PC account for 30.3%, HP Mini account for 5.8%, takes third place, and Wind account for 5.7%, in forth place.

When Acer introduce low price 10.2 inch Acer Aspire One, we have enough reason to give more expectation to it’s market performance. So, what is the difference between 8.9 inch Aspire One A150 and Aspire One D150? Let us introduce them for you as following:

Dimension weight and optional color

This time, the Aspire One we evaluate is 10.2 inch netbook, he body dimension is 26.0 × 18.5 × 3.4 cm, the old model 8.9 inch A150 is 24.9 × 17.0 × 2.9 cm, cubage increased around 33%. But compared to mainstream 12.1 inch laptop, it reduced about 30%, so this product also with excellent portability. Even though it can’t foist into your trousers pocket same as Sony VAIO P, it is quite easy to put into your attache case.

According to the actual weight, we can see that 10.2 inch Aspire One complete machine weight is 1.182 KG, add the power adaptor the travelling weight is 1.488 KG. But the previous 8.9 inch A150 is 0.981 KG and 1.308 KG respectively. From this, we can find that 10.2 inch Aspire One increased around 20% in the complete machine side.

Same as many other brand netbook, Acer Aspire One D150 also provide a lot of color for consumers to choose, because of it’s appearance design is similar with Aspire series bijou netbook, so the two models looks like blue bijou and red bijou, besides, black shell and silver palm bracket suit for those mature business person.

Material/Screen/WebCam

Same as other netbooks, Aspire One D150 also adopt the common ABS engineer plastic as main body material, meanwhile, add a film silkscreen forwarding clarity coat on the coping surface, in the one hand, it can reflect the light better to makes the netbook looks glossy. In the other hand,it can protect the painting and pattern not be worn. But this coating is easy to leave finger mark and difficult to clean.

10 inch Acer Aspire One D150 netbook

This netbook introduce 10.2 inch LED backlight screen,the ratio between length and width is 16:9, the optimization dpi is 1024×600, hense, the presenting words is bigger and looks more comfortbale. If you hope to present 1024×768 or higher dpi, you can settle it on desktop.

Screen upside install a webcam inside and the actual shoot effection

Int the process of evaluting, we find that this netbook screen presenting effection is quite satisfied, the brightness is very high makes the users can see the screen cotent when under violent light circumstance. Besides, the webcam shoot effection is very good, color reversion is very precise.

Body left & right side interface

Netbook as a application tool, the performance demand is not very strict, the extension ability is more important, this 10.2 inch Acer Aspire One D150 offer 3 USB 2.0 interface, one is in the left, the others is in the back of the machine.

Except for the necessary power adaptor, earphone and network cable, it also provide VGA interface which convenient users to convert the menu to big screen display or projection, in addition, it also collocate a multiple card reader insert groove, it can support including SD, xD, MS Pro and MMC multi-memory card.

Wireless swith, inside construction

Many people who have laptop already but still want to buy a netbook, because they take a fancy that this netbook can surf in the internet anywhere as long as with WiFi, hence, we hope that netbook can provide more humanity design in this field. It it glad that Aspire One considered this point, it devise a wireless network switch, only need a dial then can finish all the acess and exit operation.

Hardware facility and performance test

At present, every brand of netbook even with different style, but their hardware collocation are almost the same. Acer Aspire One D150 is no exception, it introduce Intel Atom N270 processor (1.6GHz),945GSE chip group integrate GMA950 pattern chip, 1GB memory and 160GB hard disk, Atheros 802.11b/g wireless module.

Intel Atom N270 Processor detail parameter

HD Tach Hard disk average read speed:51.2MB/Second

From the PCMark05 test result, compare to the same price common laptop, netbook have big gap to laptop about the performance, especial in the processor and pattern chips section, the netbook can not suit to make video, 3D drawing and other complex tasks. But it’s memory and hard disk performance are very good, the hard disk read speec is almost same with popular laptops.

Heat dissipation and battery duration test

Next is the focused heat dissipation test, in 26℃ indoors condiction, we keep Aspire One running PCMark05 and makes it in high loading condition, two hours later, use Infrared temperature appliance to test the top temperature,normally, the palm tray section lower than 37℃, machine back lower than 42℃ will meet our satisfaction.

Now is the battery duratio time test, this time, the Aspire One we evaluated, we collocate 11.1V 2200mAh 3 cell battery, capacity is around 23Wh, besides, it has 2 sorts 6 cell for you to choose, they are 4400mAh and 5200mAh respectively.

Under the condition of standard 3 cell battery, this netbook stll able to run 3 hours, it seems like that the low collocation can’t bring low consumption and power saving advantages. If you don’t want to take adaptor when go out for a whole day, it is better for you to choose a 6 cell battery.

Summerise:

After long time probation, we understand more about this 10 inch Acer Aspire One D150 netbook, compare to the peer product, it is in leading position in comestic design, detail workmanship, and hardware facility.

Advantage: Performance is good, beautiful apperance, steady workmanship, keyboard with good elasticity

Disadvantage: Touch panel is small, hard sledding for left and right key-press, easy to leave finger mark on coping