Acer Ferrari One Netbook

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Acer’s new Ferrrari One 200 netbook with the slick new Ferrari red paint job sports a Athlon 64 X2 L310 1.2GHz processor. A large 11.6″ 1366 x 768 LED backlight CineCrystal technology display, and full size keyboard for easy typing round out this fast netbook.

Basic Windows Experience Scores:

• Processor – 3.6
• Memory – 4.9
• Graphics (Aero) – 3.3
• Gaming Graphics – 4.7
• Primary Hard Disk – 3.3

Sandra’s Processor rates this unit at 7.29GOPS.

What’s not to like about this netbook? Many might find the paint job over the top and the Ferrari symbol a little tacky, but for those of us into black and hot red, this is the unit to get. It’s fast for a netbook We dropped in a 128GB SSD drive and the Primary Hard Disk jumped to 5.9 in Windows Experience Score.

The keyboard is the best selling point of this unit along with the large 11.6″ LED screen. It’s a pleasure to type on for such a small unit. Battery life is about 3-4 hours, and it would have been nice to have a 9 cell battery to push that life even higher.

The lack of Bluetooth in this unit hurts things a bit, and 3G is optional unit. Finally there is no HDMI port. Instead Acer opted for the new ATI XGP connection for external video card units of the future. At this writing such external video cards are not available. It would have been better just to include a HDMI port as is it really necessary to have such option on a small unit? While graphics might be sped up, the rest of the unit is just average performance in comparison to a desktop.

All such details aside the unit is a fun netbook to use. The excellent keyboard and screen, along with the fastest speed of any shipping netbook puts this unit at the top of the list. The $599 price is a bit steep, but you get a dual core processor and Windows 7 Home 64-bit edition with it.

The price and lack of some basics like Bluetooth and HDMI bring this units rating down a bit. It’s a solid unit, and nice features, but it’s at the high end range of netbooks and not to include something as simply as bluetooth makes no sense on the part of Acer.

More updates on this unit in the future as we use this unit in everyday things.

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