Laptops

Price less than $400 generally mean netbook, rather than laptop. This laptop comes with a AMD Athlon processor and only one GB of Random Access Memory with 14.1 inch display, the Acer eMD620-5777 is worth a look.

The new Acer eMD620 laptop is very basic in design, including the black matte cover, ribbed plastic above the laptop’s keyboard, and the touchpad is surrounded with a thin silver frame. Measuring 13.0x 9.8×1.2–1.6 inches and 5.3 pounds.

The 14.1-inch shiny display with 1280×800 pixel resolution; is quite bright and produces sharp images quality. A 0.3 megapixel webcam is present just above the display screen. The speakers are located on the front edge, produce good sound. The new Acer eMD620 has just 2 USB, VGA, Ethernet slot, and headphone and mic jacks. The eMD620 is powered by single-core AMD’s Athlon 2650e processor running at 1.6 GHz, one GB of memory. Increasing the Random Access Memory to Two GB is easy. The laptop comes with ATI Radeon X1200 graphics card and the 5,400- Rotation Par Minute hard disk drive 160GB.

The 802.11b/g Wi-Fi laptop turned in good throughput of 20.4 Mbps (at 14-15 feet) and 18.9 Mbps (49 feet).

Software and Warranty

The Acer eMD260 comes with Windows Vista Home Basic, including Google Desktop, eMachines GameZone, and trial versions of Microsoft Office Home and a 2 month trial of Norton 360 Version2.0. The Acer eMD260 laptop comes with a standard 1year warranty.

Acer Aspire 6930G-6723.

This laptop is just like the smaller sister to the Acer 8930G comes with Intel Core2 Duo, Nvidia graphic and Blu-ray. With a price tag of $999, this is okay laptop for who want a comparatively light weight desktop substitute that is not so pricey.

Attractive Design

The design is some where very similar to it previous range 8930G, the 6930G sports, this is an smart mix of texture, light up keys, and shiny finishes. The black cover of the 15.7×11.5×1.7 inch laptop’s look spiky and the silver company logo with white back lighting. The weighs of the laptop is1.8 pounds less than its own Acer 8930G.

Upon opening the cover of this laptop, a full size shiny black keyboard has a good feel and the textured palm rest. On one side of the laptop 2 USB 2.0 ports, Blu-ray, modem slot, and Kensington lock. Port for the power adapter, Ethernet, Display Port, VGA, 2 USB 2.0, HDMI, Express Card/54 slot, head phone and mic jacks are available on the left side of the laptop. A five in one card reader is on the front edge of the laptop.

Audio, Video, and Webcam

The laptop comes with shiny 16 inches display 1366×768 pixel resolution. 1.3 mega pixel webcam with basic utility, but the laptop lacks some extra features such as face tracking and special effects.

Performance

The new Acer 6930G laptop comes with Intel 2.0-GHz Core2 Duo T5800 processor and with four GB of RAM. The Acer 6930G booted the operating system Windows Home Premium in a 86 seconds, which is some where more slow. The laptop comes with a 5,400 rotation par minute, with a storage capacity of 320GB hard drive. The Acer 6930G laptop comes with Nvidia GeForce 9600M graphics card.

Battery and Wireless

The Acer 6930G battery lasted three hours and thirty four minutes on a charge, which is nearly 1 hour longer than the other laptops in this category. Intel’s 802.11a/g/n radio is good at fifteen feet from the ordinary router 22.0 Mbps and at fifty feet nearly18.3 Mbps.

Software and Warranty

The Acer 6930G comes with Acer’s multimedia center, Cyber Link Power Director 6, and a two month trial of Microsoft Office 2007. Acer laptop covers the 1year warranty and 24/7 customer care support.

Verdict

At $999 the laptop is very pocket friendly and provides an excellent multimedia experience and integrated with Blu-ray technology.

Acer, official sponsor of the Scuderia Ferrari racing team launched its new Acer Ferrari 1000 Laptop comes with Carbon Fiber body, ferocious candy red trim with the Ferrari logo. The laptop weight is just 4 pound and comes with AMD Turion Dual Core chip and the thickness of the laptop is just 1.36-inch and the RAM of 768MB.

Features and Performance

Acer Ferrari 1000 laptop is powered by AMD Turion 64X2 TL 56 dual core processor sports a 2×512KB L2 cache and runs on 1800MHz Hyper Transport Bus. ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 chipset, RAM 768 MB DDR2 667 MHz , 12.1 inches Wide screen Display with the resolution of 1280×800 with CrystalBrite high-brightness LCD and with LED backlight to give crispy and bright viewing experience, 160GB SATA hard disk drive with 5400 RPM 8MB cache, 1.3 Megapixel webcam just above the display screen and the option for 6 and 3 cell battery.

Acer has launched its new Acer Aspire 1 netbook which is only 8.9″ with a price tag that only aimed to challenge all the market competitors. The new Acer Aspire 1, which comes with 8GB SSD and with the Linux operating system starts at $329.The new Acer Aspire 1 specifications:

• The new Acer Aspire Netbook comes with the Intel Atom Processor 1.6GHz N 270 One GB DDR2 533MHz. The operating system is Windows XP Home edition SP3 and 8.9″ screen with 1024 x 600 display WSVGA shiny LED backlit display. The Hitachi Hard Drive with the storage capacity of 120GB 2.5″ with 5400 Rotation Per Minute. WI-FI connectivity is 802.11b/g Atheros Wireless. The size of the netbook is 9.75″ x 6.625″ x 1.28″ and the Weight is 2lb 5.0oz with 3-Cell 23Wh battery.

Build and Design

The Acer Aspire 1 netbook is very sleek with gently rounded ends and a smooth shiny surface that is easy to hold when closed. The look of the Acer Aspire 1 netbook is quite basic. Shiny plastic is established on the top and the entire LCD of the netbook.

The new Acer Aspire 1 build quality is very solid and the production feels strong sufficient to touch being tossed approximately within a book bag with out much worry for its safety. The screen of the new Acer Aspire cover feels mainly strong, which is very important for caring the quite weak LCD panel.

Keyboard and Touchpad

The keyboard of the Aspire netbook is spacious, since the Aspire 1 is only 9″ inch netbook inside the 10” inch body. The Aser Aspire netbook slight disadvantage of having large screen borders. The key board of the Acer Aspire netbook is confined compared to a full size laptop. The typing surface of the new Acer Aspire 1 netbook feels strong with no key board contract and individual key of the Key board feel tough with no shake. For scrolling long web pages, specially with mini touch pad of Acer Aspire 1 Netbook, page up and down keys can offer a more correct way of navigating a web page or document at a fast pace.

The touch pad of Acer Aspire 1 design is a little exclusive compared to other net books and laptops in general, with the buttons of the Acer Aspire 1 on each side of the touch surface. The design is a bit delicate. The outside of Acer Aspire 1 is simply to slip your finger on and the sensitivity simply tracks your finger with a very light pressure

Display

The LED backlit display of the Acer Aspire 1 netbook is very bright and vibrant. Colors look of Acer Aspire 1 is excellent with the shiny display screen. The display screen of Acer Aspire Netbook might be clear to see outside. Viewing angles of the Acer Aspire 1 are better than average. The horizontal viewing angles of the Acer Aspire 1 are brilliant. Vertical viewing angles of the Aser Aspire netbook are so good.

Gaming presentation is limited with the new Acer Aspire 1 netbook. There is one exclusive feature of the Acer Aspire 1 is the double card reader

Speakers and Audio

The new Acer Aspire 1 notebook speakers sound great. The head phone workes very well on the new Aspire 1. No noise can be notice through the head phone.

Ports and Features

With 2 card readers, plus 3 USB ports, 1 Ethernet Connector, VGA, and one audio jacks and Front Wireless connectivity On/Off

Heat and Noise

Intel Atom-based netbooks fall into the practically warm while processing, and the the new Acer Aspire 1 is not different from other netbooks. While surfing the internet, doing documentation, or chatting on any messaging client like Yahoo or MSN, surface temperature stay within normal levels. The bottom is slightly warm and the key board temperature is little bit above then the room temperature.

Noise on the new Acer Aspire 1 is little bit loud then other netbooks. Almost as soon as the new Acer Aspire 1 netbook is on the cooling fans of the netbook starts at a low tedious speed. It hardly moves any air out of the netbook, but it is as louder as the fans found in latops.

Battery

The battery of the new Acer Aspire 1 netbook test with screen brightness at 60 percent, mild internet browsing with wireless enabled, the Acer Aspire 1 managed two hours and nearly 25 minutes. Company does have plans to release a another version of Acer Aspire netbook with six cell battery model and a larger hard disk drive for an additional cost of $50.

Conclusion

The new Acer Aspire One is a worthy for those looking for a lower budget netbbok . This system has solid assembly to modest presentation to handle general software applications with ease. Starting price of the new Acer Aspire one is as low as $349.