Acer Netbook

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1. amomipais82
   

   Hi,
   The AO751h is the latest netbook from Acer. It sports a new 11.6 in form factor, with a LED backlit display, and a 1366x768 native resolution. Also new is a 2GB (max) main memory option, a 250GB HDD option, Bluetooth option, new northbridge - Intel US15W, and an OS option for Windows Vista Home Basic edition. All AO751h units are powered by an Intel Atom Z520 processor running at 1240 MHz, a clock speed decrease of 25% compared to the previously standard 1600 MHz of the "netbook reference platform" used by every imaginable manufacturer, including in all of Acer's Aspire One series. The US15W system controller incorporates a GMA500 video core, and while the hardware has significant potential for smooth video decoding, the video driver software is not mature and significant improvements have been seen with each new driver release. The announcement by Adobe that they will be releasing a FLASH upgrade (10.1) which will incorporate code that can take advantage of video hardware acceleration, assuming that the code is comparable with the GMA500 core, is viewed with great hope. As currently coded, FLASH must be decoded by the cpu and the Z520 does this poorly, leaving users who wish to view such sites as YouTube or Hulu with disappointing results.
   
   Much speculation has been that Intel Corp, the manufacturer of the Atom processor, which has a large market share in this new netbook market, has capped the performance levels of netbooks with form factors approaching notebook size, such as the AO751h. This is to prevent cannibalization of Intel's (large) share of the notebook CPU market and to further broaden the performance gap of the Atom and Intel's current notebook offerings. At the 2009 Intel Developer's Conference, company representatives indicated that the feared cannibalization of higher performance parts was not observed, rather lesser performance chips saw the largest decrease in sales attributed to the introduction of the ATOM family of processors.
   
   Also of note is Microsoft's OEM licensing agreement concerning Windows XP licenses with netbook manufacturers. Microsoft currently offers discounted licenses of their aging Windows XP Home OS to OEMs which is very popular. In an attempt to cut the final cost of these relatively low-cost units to the consumer, some manufacturers (including Acer) have offered units powered by a flavor of the Linux OS, or have taken advantage of this discount by Microsoft. This discount only applies to certain computers which fall into the "netbook category" as defined by Microsoft. One of the criteria for inclusion into this unilaterally defined category is form factor. Netbooks with displays larger than 10.1" (diagonally) do not fall into this special discount category. This may explain the migration from Windows XP deployed on previous Aspire Ones to Windows Vista, as the difference in cost for an OEM license for Windows XP Home vs Windows Vista remains small, whereas an OS 'upgrade' to the end user provides an increase in marketability. A pitfall of this move is the decreased performance of the unit's CPU compared to earlier models, combined with the cumulatively increased demand of computing power from Windows Vista, resulting in very poor out of box performance compared to previous generations. In the July-August 2009 time frame some change took place and AO751h models using Windows XP were placed on the market in the USA.
   
   As can be seen in the threads of the Aspire One User's Forum, the AO751h has had some difficulties with systems that freeze either when running specific software, or when being unsuspended, or every few hours for no obvious reason. Some progress has been made to illuminate the nature of these failures and driver updates have made some of the specific software failures less likely, but as of this date (October 2009) a comprehensive solution to the freezing problem has not been made available from Acer.

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2. Guest4906
   

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