News - Acer Aspire One D270 netbook arrives with 32nm Intel Atom CPU

[HEXUS]

There's still life left in the trusty-ol' netbook, isn't there?

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[crossy]

The quoted eight hours of battery life sounds promising, and if the US pre-order price of $280 really does translate to £215 inc. VAT, then the Aspire One D270 could become interesting as a highly-portable companion that isn't as limited as a tablet.

Nice price. but I suspect that the UK price will be closer to £300!

Got rid of my Acer netbook when I got an Asus tablet+keyboard dock combo - only things I miss are the larger storage (although having a 32GB uSD card in it and USB connector available handles that nicely) and the ability to choose an OS, (my Acer came with a crappy Linux install, and ended up dual-booting Meego and Ubuntu - either of which were many times better suited).

[kingpotnoodle]

Decent sort of thing for basic needs, kids, oldies, quick on the go sysadmin etc... but I think the only killer feature now missing is an SSD, they would be far better with a small 30-60GB unit, people who need more storage have USB options. It doesn't need to be fast a gen or 2 ago SATA-II with reasonable IOPs would still kill a hard drive and make them seem that much quicker and more responsive - which is where netbooks lose out to tablets.

Flash prices must be close to this being possible now surely?

[Jimbo75]

What a waste of a 320GB hard drive.

[crossy]

Decent sort of thing for basic needs, kids, oldies, quick on the go sysadmin etc... but I think the only killer feature now missing is an SSD, they would be far better with a small 30-60GB unit, people who need more storage have USB options. It doesn't need to be fast a gen or 2 ago SATA-II with reasonable IOPs would still kill a hard drive and make them seem that much quicker and more responsive - which is where netbooks lose out to tablets. Flash prices must be close to this being possible now surely?

Totally agree - having an SSD would have made more sense (to me at least) for optimising battery life and reducing weight as well on a super-portable device.

Just checked on Scan and typical price for a laptop 320GB drive seems to be around £60, and the cheapest SATAIII SSD is a 64GB unit at a whole £2 more! So, based on that, eminently do-able.

[bobharvey]

Still with the stupid 600 vertical pixels