The Aspire One is an Acer Atom laptop category. Notebooks in this line are made for efficiency, low power-consumption and small size. The price is lower than that of full size notebooks from the same manufacturer, mostly because to keep consumption low Intel, and other chip makers omitted parts of their chips. As a results chips became efficient and cheap, accessible for the great audience.
Acer is one of the more important makers and with Aspire one series they’ve put quality on the table. While other makers concentrated on longer battery life, or stronger processor, Acer took the gist of netbooks and made a simple, small, light, ultra-portable and super-cheap laptop.
Undoubtedly their best selling mini is the Aspire One D250, which comes with a 10.1″ screen, 160 GB HDD, 1.6GHz Atom processor and 1GB DDR2 memory. This is more or less the basic and default setup for cheap 10″ laptops, going for these specs they don’t take much risk.
The hearth of the whole construction is an N270, which gives enough raw power to run a browser and an instant messaging client simultaneously. You might want to look for something more serious if you need to play 720p HD cinema, not only because the screen is too small for it, but because the graphics chip is integrated as well, and will fail under such a load.
The hard disk is not something to call back about either, in this price range 160GB and 250GB are the available options. For average net users there is no difference between the two, and those who care buy a stronger laptop anyway.
The RAM will be enough for basic tasks, even multiple tabs in your favorite browser pose no obstacle, but you can easily upgrade it to twice as much. Another 1GB memory stick costs about $15-$20. Optical drive is not present in this model, no netbook has it as of today, but you can get an USB connected variation for around $50 in any major webshop, or offline store.
If you want to get an Acer atom netbook your best bet is to order it online. Offline stores often have less different models to choose from, may be out of stock, or simply be farther away than your doorstep where you can get the computer delivered by the next day. Make sure you read about the particular model you’re about to order to avoid running into a weaker implementation of the netbook idea.
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