Acer Aspire One AOD250-1990 10.1-Inch Diamond Black Netbook – 6.5 Hour Battery Life

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1. NJP (Ohio) says:
   September 4, 2011 at 7:29 pm
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   So far, quite impressed., June 3, 2009

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   NJP (Ohio) (Cincinnati) –

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   This review is from: Acer Aspire One AOD250-1289 10.1-Inch Seashell White Netbook – 6.5 Hour Battery Life (Personal Computers)

   I have only had this D250 (White) for 2 days now, so my comments are really nothing more than a first impression at this point.

   I purchased the D250 to replace a Dell 700M which I have loved, but even at only 4.5 pounds gets heavy with all its gear on trips – and 1280×768 on a 12″ screen is starting to get hard on older eyes.

   I did plenty of research and decided on the D250 over the Asus 1008 and Samsung NC10 primarily due to it’s weight and styling – and the combination of a white shell with a black keyboard. I had counted out the HP and Dell for various reasons – most notably battery life.

   First impression out of the box of the D250 was extremely good: fit and finish is excellent – with the exception that the hard drive bay door wasn’t put on right and was warping up (a tab wasn’t seated). A quick unscrew and reseat fixed that, but I was surprised it shipped that way.

   Also note that the battery seats very firmly (a big plus) and the unit is very solid feeling.

   After the initial Windows setup I was disappointed at the performance until I realized there was a huge drain being put on the system by the included trial version of McAffee. I uninstalled that and the system is quite snappy – very comparable to my 700M. I’ll use CA AntiVirus or AVG instead (seems to have a lower system overhead) and the D250 is performing MS Office and Internet browsing tasks admirably.

   I did just upgrade to 2GB of RAM using the Crucial DIMM offered here by Amazon. Everything seems to be fine with it and I haven’t noticed any compatibility issues. I also haven’t really noticed any performance changes, but I had very little “before” experience on which to judge.

   After everything is now running I have to say I’m very impressed and satisfied with this little machine. Very solid, nice screen, usable keyboard and touchpad, and decent performance.

   If I had to point to anything I would consider a disappointment, there would be 2:

   1. Screen brightness settings (on aC or battery) don’t seem to be properly retained across boot/restart and when toggling between AC and battery power. So, sometimes I’ll restart and it will remain t level 7 where it was when I shut down, and sometimes it will revert to level 5 on restart.

   2. Wireless doesn’t maintain On/Off status of what it was on shutdown – it always comes back to On after a restart.

   That’s about it.

   I also found a Targus Slipskin Peel neoprene slipcase (at Walmart for $[...]) that fits the 250D with the 6Cell battery perfectly. TSS11103US.

   P.S. – there are two different versions of the 6-Cell battery for the D250, a 48kWh and a 58kWh version. My unit from Amazon had the 48kWhr version (est 6hr battery life).

   Hope this helps.

   ** UPDATE (7/15/09) **
   My “disappointment #1″ (screen brightness issue) was corrected in a recent BIOS update. Now, the last setting is maintained (although not independently for battery and AC) across reboots. However, the brightness will still drop 2 levels if you disconnect AC power while running. But at leastthe behaviour is now consistent.

   Also, I have now been able to (i.e. had reason to) test the System Restore capability and it worked flawlessly in putting the system back exactly as I received it, without the need for recovery CDs. Very impressed.

   One last note: While this unit may not have Bluetooth built in, don’t feel you have to spend an extra $[...] (or get a different model) just to get BT. You can find many extremely small USB BT dongles that work just fine and cost next to nothing. I got one that you can barely see (about the size of a Logitech Nano transmitter) and it cost a whopping $[...] online. The Aspire One recognized it and installed automatically and it works perfectly – for $[...].

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2. Jesus Hector Fernandez says:
   September 4, 2011 at 8:26 pm
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   Acer Aspire One D250 Video demonstration., June 7, 2009

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   Jesus Hector Fernandez (Mexico) –
   
     
   
     

   This review is from: Acer Aspire One AOD250-1289 10.1-Inch Seashell White Netbook – 6.5 Hour Battery Life (Personal Computers)

   

   Customer Video Review Length:: 5:06 Mins

   Hi, this video is a demontration of the Acer Aspire One in action, well sort of, it mostly shows you where the ports are located, how many, where is the hard drive and ram located and a little show of on how video and audio looks and sound on this netbook.

   Hope you find this video informative or at least lets you take a look at what you wanted to see about the product.

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