while the customized Linpus Linux configuration is solid and intuitive

Calendar June 30, 2010 | Posted by admin

The 24Wh, 3-cell battery is slightly smaller than the ones on the S10, the Wind, and the Mini 9. If the latter trio’s scores were any indication, the One should easily get over 2 hours of battery life. Unlike the S10 and the Mini 9, though, the One has an option for an extended 6-cell battery.

If anyone can pull off an inexpensive UMPC, it would be Acer—a company that is notorious for selling laptops at low prices. The Acer Aspire One is banking that performance will shine with an Intel Atom processor, while the customized Linpus Linux configuration is solid and intuitive.

An Nvidia GTX graphics card is a good thing for gamers, and the G51J’s GeForce GTX 260M is no exception. Games like Crysis and World in Conflict played flawlessly on the G51J, without any dropped frames. However, the laptop didn’t perform as well on our tests as the Acer AS8940 and Toshiba X505-Q850, which use less-powerful graphics cards. One has to wonder if 3D Vision is eating up its fair share of graphics horsepower during game play.

Since my preview, configurations with Windows XP Home, a 6-cell battery, and a 160GB hard drive are already available 411462-442 through various online retailers, making the One as desirable as the Wind and the S10. The true test, however, is to see if customers can put up with the frustrating typing and navigating experience.

James also announced that Intel will provide a hardware API for Larrabee, its programmable graphics chip architecture 411462-321 set to debut next year. The chip will run both OpenGL, OpenCL, and Microsoft’s DirectX.

Combined with 4GB of DDR3 memory, the G51J performed as well as the Acer AS8940 and Toshiba X505-Q850 in video encoding and Cinebench R10 tests. It’s even faster than the M17x—the current Editor’s Choice—since the latter is using a previous HP Pavilion DV6600 battery generation quad-core processor.

Had this been Windows XP, Acer would’ve had to bump the memory to 1GB to keep up with its competitors. Unfortunately, all of my tests are Windows based, so I can’t report numbers until I can get a Windows XP system. From my daily experiences, though, the One is HP EX941AA Battery able to easily multitask.

How successful can Moblin be in a saturated market of mobile operating systems? “I think Atom will be wildly successful, and Moblin will go with Atom,” said Renee James, Intel’s software chief.

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