Acer’s New Aspire One Comes With Two OSs

THE LATEST in the Aspire
One netbook line,
the D250-1613 has
a 1.6GHz Intel
Atom CPU, 1GB of
RAM, a 160GB hard drive, a
tiny keyboard, and a microscopic
multitouch pad. It’s a
dual-boot system, with both
Windows XP and Android.
But Google’s OS isn’t suacient to make it a winner.
Upon your 2 rst boot-up of
the D250-1613, it goes into
Windows XP. Once you 2 nd
and use the Android con2 guration
tool, and re boot, it
loads the Acer H avor of An -
droid in about 18 seconds.
K e main interface is clean.
By default, a few apps line
the bottom; you can drag
and drop others from a pullout
menu that sits on the
right side of the screen. Of
course, it has hooks into
Gmail, so you have access to
all your contacts, calendaring,
and e-mail oO ine.
Change any information
locally, and the next time
you’re online, it syncs up
with your Google account.
A big disappointment is
the lack of useful preinstalled
soS ware such as a
word processor. K e ability
to browse a USB thumbdrive
would be nice, too, as
would printer support.
K is Aspire is a little smaller
than earlier models (10.2by 8.0 by 1.0 inches and a
light 2.7 pounds). K e keyboard
is a bit cramped even
by netbook standards. And
the touchpad is tiny.
At least the display is reasonably
big and colorful.
With brightness cranked up,
test videos ran nicely.
In subjective tests, battery
life was a little over 6 hours.

article source : pc world
Darren Gladstone