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Good news for the folks eager to run Google's Android OS, Acer has released its very first Android netbook. The bad news is that you're not escaping Windows just yet.
Acer's line of Aspire One netbooks is expanding to include the company's first Android offering. The dual-boot Aspire One AOD250 comes with both Android and Windows XP Home.
The company is using the Android side of the netbook as a sort of "always on" feature that allows you to power up and perform limited functions without having to boot Windows.
Aside from being dual-boot there's very little about the AOD250 that we haven’t seen in Acer netbooks already. Specs-wise you're looking at a 10.1 inch LED-backlit display, Intel's 1.66 GHz Atom N280 CPU, 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive.
We're pleased to hear the slim-line OS has finally made it to an Acer machine, but it'd be nice to see how a completely Android netbook works out. The AOD250 is available in the U.S. in four different colors from $349.99.
Source : Tom's Hardware US
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Oh, I'm so excited about being able to perform limited functions on an already limited piece of hardware, a netbook.
The joy!!!
Oh, I'm so excited about being able to perform limited functions on an already limited piece of hardware, a netbook. The joy!!!
I believe you miss quoted in leaving the full statement out.
The limited function part does not sound like a very good deal.
after your first boot to XP and you got very disappointed, don't panic. reboot the acer again and boot to Android. Now you're really fumed up. That's when you reach for the hammer... Everything deserves a second chance.
My friend HTC Hero boot in Androit longger than my laptop booting Windows 7 =)).
Limited functions is to be able to quickly check email or look something up on the web, write a note or two. If you want to run iTunes and such load up XP.
Lets see Windows XP gives you all the things you'd expect with windows (just don't expect the world. Surfing, office products and social activities all should work well, extreme gaming won't) however you have the windows boot time to deal with.
The Android side would be for quick access to the internet for cloud based activities and social activities I'd expect.
My daughter uses an Aspire One for school and loves it. It took a little time to get used to the reduced keyboard size, but once that happened it literally goess everywhere with her because the size makes it convenient to carry around and get easy access to her friends and school work.
As long as people understand the niche netbooks fit into and don't try to make them do things they aren't capable of performing, then nobody who has one should be disappointed.
dual boots never where in...
Experience proves people still go to Windows. Booting Windows on a dual boot configuration still takes longer.
Anyone willing to have Android, can download and install it.
I'd say it's a bad deal.
the only reason i would want android is if i need to check my email in 30 seconds or less, then android starts instantly.
i used to have a program like that, called pesto or something, very useful, but then the beta expired and i had to pay $200 or something lol
now it looks like ill do the same with andriod
So this is like ASUS Express Gate.
dual boots never where in...Experience proves people still go to Windows. Booting Windows on a dual boot configuration still takes longer.Anyone willing to have Android, can download and install it.I'd say it's a bad deal.
I dual boot all of my systems at home, I got 3 right now. It started with opensuse years ago that I began dual booting but over the years I switched to Ubuntu. I highly prefer all computer experiences in linux over windows but I understand I'm strange like this. There are still things, such as games, that require a machine to have windows and that is why i dual boot.
The longer boot time does not bother me in the least bit. I definitely prefer the semi independent OSs on the same machine for many reasons.
That being said I'm very skeptical of Android as a desktop OS. I understand it's a modified version of linux but I'm not sure how I feel about it yet. I'm going to have to research it more before I even think of running it on any of my desktops.
sounds like linux has more to fear about Android than Windows does.
sounds like linux has more to fear about Android than Windows does.
sounds like you don't know what you're talking about.
sounds like you don't know what you're talking about.
It sounds like you don't know what I'm talking about.
and yes, I do know that Android uses the linux kernel, but I do think Google has an advantage over other linux distributors and will become the defacto standard in linux.