Acer Aspire One AOA150

The Acer Aspire One AOA150 is an 8.9 inch netbook that is available in black, baby pink, white and sapphire blue. Its casing is made out of high gloss plastic that features good stability and torsional stiffness. The Acer Aspire One AOA150 is targeted at the budget netbooks market.

Specifications
The Acer Aspire One AOA150 measures 9.8 in x 6.7 in x 1.1 in (W x D x H) in dimension that weighs approximately 2.2 lbs. On its body, the Acer Aspire One AOA150 has a WLAN Switch on the front, while there are no connections and only the battery is attached to the back. On its right side, the Acer Aspire One AOA150 has a microphone jack, 3.5 mm headset jack, two USB ports, a Kensington Lock and a 5-in1 card reader. On its left, the Acer Aspire One AOA150 allows for storage expansion via SD-card reader, one USB port, LAN port, air vent, VGA port and power supply port. There is also an 84 key keyboard that has been built in accordance with a common keyboard layout for familiarity purposes. In addition to that, there is also a touchpad of high gloss finish below the keyboard with mouse buttons placed to the left and the right of the trackpad. In general, the Acer Aspire One AOA150 has built-in stereo speakers as well as a built-in wireless LAN antenna. It runs on an Intel Atom N270 processor of 1.6 GHz and a data bus speed of 533 MHz. Besides that, it also incorporates a Mobile Intel 945 GSE Express chipset. In terms of cache memory, the Acer Aspire One AOA150 incorporates L2 cache of 512 KB. As for its RAM, it incorporates a DDR2 technology SDRAM with a data bus speed of 533 MHz and an installed size of 1 GB (1.5 GB max) in the form factor of an SO DIMM 200-pin. Two 512 MB RAM chips are soldered together for a combined installed size of 1 GB. In terms of storage, the Acer Aspire One AOA150 has up to 120 GB of capacity on its internal hard disk drive. There is no optical storage. As for the card reader, it supports Memory Stick, MultiMediaCard, SD-Memory Card, xD-picture card and Memory Stick PRO memory cards. There is also a TFT active matrix display that measures 8.9 inches diagonally with a WSVGA resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels as well as widescreen capabilities. The display also has 18-bit colour support as well as features LED-backlight and CrystalBrite technology. In terms of video features, the Acer Aspire One AOA150 incorporates Intel GMA 950 Dynamic Video memory technology 3.0. As for sound features, the Acer Aspire One AOA110 has an integrated sound card as well as is DirectSound compliant. Not only that, the Acer Aspire One AOA150 also has an integrated web camera situated on top of the display. Input devices consist of keyboard and touchpad with built-in numeric keyboard. The Acer Aspire One AOA150 comes under warranty for limited parts and labour as well as traveller warranty. It is powered by a 3-cell lithium-ion battery that can provide up to 3 hours of estimated battery life. The Acer Aspire One AOA150 comes pre-installed wit Acer Launch Manager, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Acer eRecovery Management and McAfee Internet Security Suite.
Reviews

“The Acer Aspire One may not be as feature-packed as the Eee PC 901, but the keyboard is certainly much better and could tip the scales in its favor. ” (CNET, 2009)

“On the Linux model, this slot performs the nifty trick of merging a memory card with the SSD as seamless main storage, rather than appearing as an additional drive.” (HardwareCentral, 2009)

“Considering how crowded the netbook market has become over the last year I really expected Acer to deliver more with their 10-inch netbook. Yes, it costs less than $300, but that price looks less impressive when other netbooks have better keyboards, better touchpads, and MUCH better battery life for less than $400.” (NotebookReview, 2009)