The AOD250 netbook is put out by Acer. Acer didn’t genuinely get started the netbook craze (that honor belongs to the Asus eee line), but they have speedily surpassed challengers to become the maker of the hottest syndication netbooks. The reasons for this are simple — they have a quality product at a price that is lower than that of the competition. But does the specific AOD250 model live up to expectations?

This is unquestionably not the most powerful netbook on the market. At the same time, it comes in at such a low price that a great deal of are more than willing to overlook the lack of sure features because it is unquestionably a usable and speedy little machine. It has an Intel Atom N270 processor, 1 GB of memory, and a 160 GB hard drive. Note that there are netbooks out there that are more immediate and incorporate more memory storage; but they will cost you rather a bit more. The good thing regarding the AOD 250 is that you may without apparent effort upgrade the memory to 2 GB. It is comparatively inexpensive to do so as well.

The display on this mini computer is around 10 inches. It has an LCD display, with breathtakingly splendid graphics. Acer uses something called CrystalBright engineering science in order to make everything appear crisp and clear, even on a littler screen. The screen size is comparable to the best netbooks on the market, and it is just the right size for being ultra portable, while still permitting you to see everything you need to see without strain.

There are numerous great features that come along with this Acer Aspire One netbook. It has WebCam built right in, and comes installed with Skype. You will also effortlessly be competent to create videos that you may upload YouTube with this computer. Since so galore humans use these for Internet browsing activities, you’ll love knowing that it is compatible with these things. It likewise has a wireless antenna built right, so you may connect to the Internet wherever there is a connection available.

There are similar choices out there, but this is the model with the most competitory price. It has more than sufficient power for some people who will use this as a second computer, or just need something light to carry around. Reviewers commend this system because it is so reliable, and is unquestionably a great addition to the world of netbook computers. With it is little portable size, long battery life, and processing power, it will more than meet most people’s needs.

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28 of 30 persons found the following review helpful.
Great value for light (ie non-gaming) use
By Mojoman
I was looking for a laptop/notebook to connect to my 60″ flat-screen television. A reasonable amount of exploration led me to choose this unit as it was low-priced (~350), offered solid graphics performance in the dual-core AMD E-350 APU, integrated HDMI output connection, decent-sized hard drive and running Windows 7 (64-bit). Only minor negative related with this unit is it only has 2Gb memory installed. However, that 2Gb is on one stick and unit has a second slot available.

I purchased a stick of Crucial CT25664BC1067 2GB 204-PIN PC3-8500 SODIMM DDR3 Memory Module for ~20 bucks to address this shortcoming. Installing it was a breeze. Just remove the two screws securing the hard drive/memory access panel and insert a flat blade screwdriver at the indentation of door and work it around the panel. The panel is kept by a collection of little tabs spaced with regards to an inch or so detached around the perimeter of the panel. Just work the flat blade screwdriver around the panel, twisting the screwdriver as you come to each tab to cause it to disengage from the body of the laptop. Open memory slot will be on the bottom right under a clear film sheet. Lift the sheet, align the second memory stick in the open slot, insert it and then press down on the stick till the metal clips engage the stick to retain it in position. Reinstall the panel and the two screws to finish the job. Takes 5-10 minutes and you are good to go.

I did not choose to upgrade it, but replacing the hard drive would be somewhat easy to accomplish as well.

Keyboard is island-style keys with open space amongst them. Easy to type on, but I don’t commend eating while using as the open keys are conducive to getting crumbs and such in amidst them.

Screen is clear, bright and sharp. Weight is a bit heavy to be a each and everyday carry unit, but that is not what I use it for. I have a light-weight 14″ laptop for that job.

Upon introductory start-up you ought to invent restore discs or a driver disc if you plan on doing a clean Windows 7 install. Then get started removing the popular crap-ware you get on any pre-built unit. This unit was not particularly better or worse than I have came upon before on other laptops. You may manually delete those programs you don’t want, or just download and run “PC Decrapifier” if you aren’t familiar/comfortable with removing undesirable software or want to speed the procedure up. I chose to manually remove the items I did not want.

After removing the items I did not want, I downloaded and installed the latest version of Microsoft Security Essentials (free anti-virus), ran Windows Update, and downloaded and installed the latest version of Catalyst Control Center and driver. Finally installed a couple of other apps and updates to finish the job. All total, it took a couple of hours to finish all the hardware/software tasks to get the unit just the way I wanted it.

Since then I have applied it for outputting Hulu/Netflix/etc… to my flat-screen television thru the HDMI port, web browsing, and office type applications. It performs all these flawlessly. I have not tried to run/play any games on the unit as I have a solid desktop system for that use and this unit in all probability will not run any severe game very well. Flash-based net games and older games will have to not be a problem.

I have not run the unit on battery power for any extended amount of time so I can’t speak to battery performance/duration.

After a couple weeks use, I have not experienced any issues with the unit and am very satisfied with the price/performance.

If you are looking for a solid laptop/notebook for home use (web browsing, e-mail, office apps, etc…), you ought to unquestionably give this unit consideration. Very good value for the price.

22 of 23 humans found the following review helpful.
Acer AS5253
By FarvaSCW
Great laptop, battery life is with regards to 5 hours for normal use. Easy to type on and the number pad is a big plus. The AMD E350 apu is still good for a lot of gaming I may play left 4 dead 2 and fallout new vegas with no lag. Defiantly not a high end laptop but for only 400 it is a outstanding deal, nevertheless I do commend getting another 2gig stick of ram as it runs a lot better on 4gig.

15 of 18 persons found the following review helpful.
Acer as5253
By zaneil777
This computer is a steal at it is price it came well packaged but had alot of programs preloaded on to it.A lil for less construction but well made very quiet even playing games like dragon age 2 very good graphics rate them 4-5 had it on high settings too good wireless good sound all in all way worth the price for what ever you want to use it for.

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