- 1.66GHz Intel N280 Atom Processor
- 1024MB DDR2 SDRAM Single Channel Memory
- 160GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM), 802.11b/g Wi-Fi Certified
- 10.1″ WSVGA Acer CrystalBrite LED Display, Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950
- Windows XP Home (SP3), 6-Cell Li-ion Battery (5800 mAh)
Product Description
Acer AOD250-1955 comes with these high level Specs. Intel Atom Processor N280, Windows XP Home with Service Pack 3, 10.1-Inch WSVGA Acer CrystalBrite LED Display, Mobile Intel 945GSE Express Chipset, Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950, 1024 MB DDR2 SDRAM Single Channel Memory, 160GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM), Multi-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader, Acer InviLink 802.11b/g Wi-Fi CERTIFIED, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate), Integrated Acer Crystal Eye Webcam, Two Built-in Stereo Speakers, 3 – USB 2.0 Ports, 6-cell Li-ion Battery (5800 mAh), Up to 9-hours battery life, 2.79 lbs. | 1.27 kg (system unit only)Amazon.com Product Description
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Acer AOD250-1955 10.1-Inch Blue Netbook – Up to 9 Hours of Battery Life
This netbook and its battery life are just as advertised if you are just surfing the net. Adding an external disk drive halves that. You need to let the battery charge up first, then completely discharge down to nothing then recharge it to get the full 9 hours out of it.
The netbook is light enough to use – the keyboard takes a bit to get used to. Man the screen is small! Hitting the shift key doesn’t always work LOL.
Runs better with 2 GB memory installed. I got it with Windows XP installed to save money so I could buy the extra memory and external drive.
I take this to doctor’s offices while I’m waiting and love how light and portable it is.
The only negative things I can say for it is that the SPEAKERS suck and are chintzy. I could barely hear any music playing. I had to connect external battery powered speakers for portability to get a good sound. Also, a negative thing is that the 3 USB ports get used up quickly by a wireless mouse and an optical drive that is external that takes up 2 ports but that is easily solved by connecting a 4 port external USB 2.0 hub to it that is portable.
I use this in my bedroom most of the time for chatting, checking email and doing online banking and then for traveling or waiting in doctor’s offices. It works great with a wireless broadband USB modem for those purposes.
I have a dog at home and the netbook attracts dog hairs like crazy to it for some oddball reason.
The webcam takes pretty good pics – even in low light but is a cheezy looking pic.
I was pleased with the overall performance and for $280 is a nice purchase.
Rating: 5 / 5
Product arrived pronto and works like a charm. Great for someone looking for limited computer access. My brother loves it!
Rating: 5 / 5
This is my 3rd netbook and is by far the best. It came with Windows XP, but I installed Ubuntu Linux and have loved it since. It has buttons to turn bluetooth and wireless on/off. The battery life is phenominal, I have gotten over 7 hrs. and still had some juice left. This netbook is a must have.
Rating: 5 / 5
Purchased this netbook from Amazon. Nice little netbook marred by some annoying “features”.
Pros (just a few highlights):
- N270 cpu at 1.66ghz instead of 1.60ghz, so it gets slightly better performance than some other netbooks.
- Nice webcam.
- Nice microphone.
Cons:
- Barely audible speakers at least for webchat. I did a video chat and I could not hear the other person. I had to plug in headphones to hear them. Otherwise, they are adequate.
- Battery is not flush with unit (though I guess this allows for longer run time, take a good look at the pictures).
- Lots of bloatware.
So overall a nice unit, with the most glaring flaw being the “speakers”. With such underpowered speakers, the ability for this netbook to serve as a portable entertainment device, or even for a quick video chat is seriously hampered as is.
Rating: 3 / 5
My wife purchased this great little netbook for me as a gift at 4am on Black Friday. We received a “SALE” e-mail from Amazon in the middle of the night and the price was reduced on this exact model/color that was well below the current price. This came with the 9 hr. battery and I had read where when the computer is first charged that it is suppose to be totaly discharged and then recharged at least 3 times to get the maximun battery conditioning in it. The first time I charged this great little computer I got over 10 hours out of the battery before it reached 3% and this was running it mostly on web sites and doing some external DVD burning with it plus removing a lot of bloatware and installing a lot of new software.
Pros for this netbook include:
Great price
Small size
Great web cam
Super battery life
Windows XP (sp3) instead of Windows Vista or Windows 7
Cons for this netbook:
Built in speakers are not very loud.
Poor touchpad (to small and seems to have a mind of it’s own)
Finger print magnet!
Lots of bloatware such as games and free trial offers.
90 Day trial of “resource hogging” McAfee Anti Virus. (That was the first thing I removed!!)
I purchased a Logitech M205 wireless mouse for it and that took care of my dislike for the touchpad.
I also purchased a Asus external USB only powered CD/DVD burner for it which works great and it very compact so it keeps with my wanting everything small for it.
I also replaced the original 1GB of RAM that came installed in it with a Crucial 2GB Ram chip before I ever turned on the netbook for the first time.. Runs great but cannot determine how much faster it is because I never used it with the original 1GB of RAM in it.
I highly recommend this netbook for students and anyone that does not need a high powered laptop. Since it does not come with any type of CD/DVD burner, that would be a added expense if you need one, but many good USB only powered burners can be found here on Amazon for $40 to $75
Good luck.
Rating: 4 / 5