Sunday, December 18, 2011

Acer Aspire One AO522 Netbook (ep.5)

Good for the money

I bought this little netbook knowing what to expect, as a previous owner of a Dell Mini 9 and as a current owner of a MacBook Pro, I was looking for something cheap with good battery life and not very powerful.
The Good:
The battery life really had about 5-6 hours while web browsing, and working offline
HDMI out is great, put it out of the 50 “TV without problems, even the audio stream through
Fast enough for small tasks
The keyboard of 93% seems much larger than most netbooks, I tried in the past
The dedicated video card, you will not find many netbooks that have this
Higher resolution screen, as something you will not see on many netbooks, most are 600 pixels high, it is 768, quite a difference
The Bad:
The keyboard of 93% while most even bigger is always a bit tight for me, but I’m a big guy
The 1GHz processor shows a little at a time
Even with the 1GHz dual core and video card Netflix and Hulu had their problems. I tried both streaming via HDMI and there was a bit of stuttering, especially since Hulu on Netflix, which can be blamed on Netflix and MS Silverlight more than anything because it lacks the hardware decoding, 5 we hope Silverlight will resolve this problem immediately
Windows 7 Starter, really!
The multitouch any kind does not much, especially when compared to the MacBook, two-finger scrolling works a bit but mine always jumped off the page a lot the first time you scroll with two fingers. In addition, the touch area of ​​the touchpad is not 100%, having a functionality of the valve area and vertical and horizontal scroll bars only works well when you can actually press the corners and sides. The 01/08 to 01/04 surrounding “my touchpad is not sensitive to almost all the way around. It is very difficult to use the touch functionality added.
Overall:
I was quite impressed with the little beast But in the end I returned and went with the Acer Aspire One AO722. Added the 1.2 “screen size means that the keyboard is bigger and it came with better specifications. More RAM, bigger HD, better version of Windows (Home Basic) and a better touchpad the same price. He still has some of the same issues with lag processor and Netflix, but the whole of his great movement on and around the home computing in general. AO522 is great if you agree with the small keyboard and maybe you’ll have more luck with your touchpad, but really for the money, if you do ‘t need the 10 “screen just get the AO722.



Credit : http://www.bestnetbooksbuy.com

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