Acer Aspire One netbook

While there’s no shortage of variety in the netbook market, one of the most commonly recommended – and certainly most commonly searched for here on SlashGear – is the Acer Aspire One.  With a slick casing, brand name recognition and relatively large degree of flexibility in specifications, even with new rivals from Dell and others, Acer is holding its own.  We’ve had the Aspire One in for the past fortnight to put it through its paces; check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.

Announced in June 2008, Acer offers multiple versions of their netbook.  Each uses Intel’s N270 1.6GHz Atom processor, but it can be paired with either 512MB or 1GB of RAM, and a choice of either an 8GB SSD or 120GB or 160GB hard-drive.  Operating system is either Windows XP Home or Linpus Linux Lite, and there are several color options.  Battery can either be a three-cell or six-cell pack.

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