Acer turns out to launch the world’s cheapest laptops costing just 379$[16000Rs] with the current availability in US Laptop Markets only. These are some very limited edition kind of laptops with 1.6Ghz Intel processors and a very small sized screens which are of 8.9 inches and would offer 1024×600 pixels resolution and Windows XP or any Linux Operating systems support. The Acer Aspire One Laptops come with a 120Gb Hard Disk Drive which is a decent storage space but these low priced laptops are featured with just 512Mb RAM which is quite low as per todays requirements and 1Gb of RAM would have been better.
Other Important Specs of these cheap laptops includes a 3USB Port option, Web Camera, Ethernet, 5-in-1 card reader, battery backup of upto 7 hours which is quite amazing considering the price of these laptops and would be the best model for travellors who would consider a cheap, low weight, small sized laptop with a higher battery backup. Currently Eee PC is available in 3 different versions which are AOA110-1722, AOA150-1570 and AOA110-1566.
| Acer Aspire One | AOA110-1722 | AOA150-1570 | AOA110-1566 |
| Processor | Intel® Atom™ Processor N270 (1.60GHz, 533MHz FSB, 512KB L2 Cache) |
Intel® Atom Processor N270 (1.60GHz, 533MHz FSB, 512KB L2 Cache) |
Intel® Atom™ Processor N270 (1.60GHz, 533MHz FSB, 512KB L2 Cache) |
| RAM | 512Mb Memory | 1Gb Memory | 1Gb Memory |
| Display | 8.9-inch WSVGA Acer CrystalBrite ™1024 x 600 |
8.9-inch WSVGA Acer CrystalBrite ™1024 x 600 |
8.9-inch WSVGA Acer CrystalBrite ™1024 x 600 |
| Hard Drive Storage | 8GB SSD NAND Flash Module | 120GB Internal Hard Drive | 8GB SSD NAND Flash Module |
| Web Camera | Acer Crystal Eye Web Camera |
Acer Crystal Eye Web Camera |
Acer Crystal Eye Web Camera |
| Operating System | Linpus™ Linux® Lite | Windows XP® Home | Linpus™ Linux® Lite |
| Battery Backup | 3-Cell Battery | 3-Cell Battery | 6-Cell Battery |
| Card Reader | SD Storage Expansion Card Reader |
SD Card Reader | SD Card Reader |
| Price | 379$ | 399$ | 449$ |
July 16th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Thats a really nice launch from Acer, I feel this might a real good deal for Indians who keep looking a cheaper notebooks as a desktop replacement, this can be a real good competition for OLPC program, as this has far superior features than the OLPC configuration with a better and easy to user OS, XP for first time users.
July 16th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
A chair, lamp, hair blower, nut cracker, racket…etc (as shown here: http://www.amitbhawani.com/blog/unique-uses-of-laptop-computers/ ) will surely cost more than $379. So this makes the offer more attractive
. I wish it was available in India too.
July 17th, 2008 at 5:44 am
wooho, thats dam cheap..
lets wait for India launch
August 2nd, 2008 (4 weeks ago) at 12:48 pm
ITS A GREAT LAUNCH OF ACER.AS ONE CAN PUT A FULLSTOP FOR SENTENCES BUT ACER WONT PUT FULLSTOP FOR ITS LAUNCHES AND WHAT TO SAY PEOPLE HERE IN INDIA WILL BE WAITING FOR ACER.
August 10th, 2008 (3 weeks ago) at 3:34 am
Thoses Acer laptop are not Indians! They are English keyboards. (I have a Japaneese keyboard: Kohjinsha SR8 i paid a lot but has same size and weight with DVDR/RW 4X). Acer are goods and cheaps, because they don’t have DVDR optical also, no possibility to change sound or video cards, they are onboard. But for traveling, it’s perfect. The size and weight are marvelously dones…I will buy 2. One for my wife, the other for my girlfriend! Oh! I am on the moon…the other one for my father in law! Sorry for thet mistake…But some richs mans bought a dozen for 11 girlfriend, and 1 for the wife! It’s trough! Enjoy that UMPC Acer is very good and go with your wife and travel with this very good quality computer.