Acer Aspire One 521 – Netbook For Demanding Users
As predicted by analysts, and it was obvious to anyone who closely follows the notebook market, after the first wave of deliberately simplified for all features netbook, inevitably began to appear more and more sophisticated models of inexpensive UMPC. Only in this way the producers a chance to interest demanding the comfort of users who have remained indifferent to the idea of saving the expense of all other characteristics.
Indeed, the progress is impressive: for the first Acer One, released two years ago, even the process of installing Windows XP, and the usual office suite was a serious trial, subjectively resembled a return somewhere in the time of the 486 x processors. Today’s models with the same name forced to “fly Windows 7 and discussed in this review did not falter even before the 3D-games, as a year ago it was difficult to conceive.
Yes, and progress in the rest of noticeable: the same screen quality is noticeably different, the hard disk is installed capacious and has a standard performance, even without discounts on special compact class laptop, the battery life has increased several times. Strictly speaking, these models have probably time to return from a frivolous term “netbook” to a respectable “subnotebook”. Because they actually implemented and, finally, the idea of a traveling user to provide a familiar working environment as possible in mobile format.
Perhaps, the only parameter on which they still lose subnoutam classic, much to the delight of users, it is – the price. Well, and full-sized laptops and desktop computers have since become much more accessible, and users have become accustomed to the mass of such a price level, so it will be unlikely to pay much in the past, and this factor should not be confused by marketers!
The laptop has a fairly elegant appearance, as if the manufacturer has already forgotten the initial positioning of the netbook to calculate the “poor students”. Cover, despite the gloss, rather tend to accumulate grease, fingerprints, eyes do not catch. But particularly resistant to scratches can not boast, so handle gently with your laptop better, move in a separate pocket, bag, where it will not come into contact with hard objects, including the power adapter, mouse and so on.
Finally, on a netbook takes its rightful place port HDMI, mainly considering that the home environment of these devices, we can say only positive. Well, the developers have put three USB-ports, instead of two common and spread them on the two sides. Go to the location of the remaining elements as special no comments, maybe not quite optimal in terms of left-handers seem to placement in the middle of the left air vent sidewall.