The Acer Aspire AO751h,is one of the company’s first 11.6-inch net book Which is an Upgrade over its 10-inch cousin users get an extra inch of screen real estate, a bigger roomier keyboard, amazingly and more than 7 hours of battery life infect its smaller Cousin, the AOD150, lasts about an hour less. Infect it is larger; the AO751h has a weaker processor then is counterpart competitors. As a result it is a net book that has great looks and feels great but offers less performance than other machines in its class.
Design:
We have seen the 10-inch Aspire One AOD250, and the 11.6-inch version looks familiar. It has a glossy black lid having Acer’s metallic logo impressed in the lower corner off the lid; but the lid picks up fingerprints fairly easily. Just Like the slightly more upscale Timeline series it’s having a gray palm rest and keyboard rest with a zed-black keyboard and thin bezel to match its looks it’s pretty much visible in the Picture above.
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As we have seen in Timeline series, that it’s overall effects are conservative but they are not cheap-looking. The real quality about the Aspire is not the color scheme but its thinness. While its competitors i.e. the ASUS Eee PC 1005HA, can be as thick as 1.4 inches and weigh close to 3 pounds the 1005-HA weighs 2.8 the Aspire One has a minimal footprint of 11.2 x 7.8 x 1.0 inches, infect its weighs 3 pounds and 3.6 with its adapter included. It feels just bit heavier than the Toshiba mini-NB205, but that’s offset may be considered because of the thinner build.
The only glich is its six-cell battery juts out the back (bulging out), whereas some other net-books, such as the Eee PC 1005HA, have comparably sized batteries that are more applicable and sleek with the system and that’s not all they manage to deliver longer battery life too.
Keyboard and aesthetics:
Just like the Aspire Timeline AS3810T; the Aspire One A0751h has slightly raised keys with plastic having a textured feel. The layout is very close to full size keyboard and I must appreciate i.e. the right Shift key is full size and it is in proper place. In fact the touch typists will have no problem with this net-book, but I noticed that the keyboard was flexed.
In our first 15 Thumbs Typing Test, we scored 84 words per minute; our highest score on our desktop computer is 88 words per minute. Then, we immediately took the test again and scored 86 words per minute, which suggests that you will likely acclimate quickly with its form and factor.
Touchpad and Touch Button’s:
When I reviewed the 10-inch Aspire One, then we were complaining about the tiny touchpad. But with the A0751h’s slightly wider footprint comes a wider touchpad (2.5 x 1.6 inches), which has a pleasant improvement over the AOD250’s (2.0 x 1.5-inch) touch pad. But it is still fairly short when compared to the NB205’s (3.1 x 1.6 inches) enormous touchpad.
But we have a bigger concern of the single touch button, which we found that it’s too stiff and narrow. Besides from the stiffness, we would definitely have preferred two buttons, as there are on other net-books.
Display and Sound:
The one thing unique about AO751h is that that most of its 10-inch competitors don’t is a high-resolution screen. For e.g.
1. 1005HA,
2. NB205,
3. 10-inch Aspire
One all have displays with 1024 x 600-pixel resolution, the AO751h’s 11.6-inch display has a resolution of enormous 1366 x 768 pixels. Those extra vertical pixels, in particular, mean we don’t have to scroll down as often when we are viewing pages, which is a common inconvenience with net-books at present.
I was impressed by the screen’s bright display. After watched a Saturday Night Live sketch on Hulu.com I enjoyed pleasant colors and amazingly good viewing angles even from oblique side angles. The glossy finish limited our viewing angles from the front; infect when we lowered the lid forward slightly we were still able to make out the clip. By the time I got to a 45-degree angle, however, the screen appeared washed out.
The volume, as expect with a net-book, is weak. While watching a clip in a quiet room with the net-book right in front of us, the sound was never too loud. Music, too, sounded predictably tinny, but no worse than it does on other competitor net-books: the bass in was really Good
Ports and Webcam:
The Net-book AO751h is having a standard selection of ports i.e.
1. three USB ports
2. VGA output
3. an Ethernet jack
4. headphone
5. mica ports,
6. 4-in-1 memory card reader.
The memory card reader, VGA, and one USB port on the right side, and the rest are located on the left.
The net-book comes with a Built in 1.3 MP webcam. While chatting with my friend I noticed minimal latency with better colors and brightness than on his Apple I-Sight camera.
Storage:
Just Like other net-books, the AO751 has a hard drive of 160GB which has 5,400 rpm. On the LAPTOP Transfer Test, I copied a 4.97GB mixed-media folder in 5 minutes and 45 seconds, which results in to a rate of 14.8 MBps. That’s just right in line with the net-book category average (14.6 MBps), but can find many significantly faster hard drives in comparably priced 10-inch net-books. The 10-inch Aspire One, Eee PC 1005HA, and NB205, are for e.g. were all faster, completing the test at rates of 16.5 MBps, 19.9 MBps, and 18.1 MBps, respectively.
Battery Life and Wi-Fi:
The Net-book AO751h has some very tough competition in its battery life I recently hailed both the 1005HA and the NB205 for lasting nearly nine hours on our battery test. But the AO751h has lasted 7 hours and 8 minutes only on the LAPTOP battery test, which is not as long as the other net-books listed, is still an impressive score; But it still beats the six-cell net-book category with average of almost 90 minutes.
Despite having 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, which we wouldn’t expect to have as strong a range as a wireless-N radio, the AO751h maintained an excellent through put of 21.0 Mbps and 20.0 Mbps at 15 and 50 feet respectively both of the results are above average for the net-book category.
Pros:
1. Slim design
2. Long battery life
3. Comfortable keyboard
4. Bright, high-resolution display
5. Strong wireless range
6. Better touch pad
7. Well placed full size right shift Key
8. Slightly raised keys with textured finish
9. Almost a Full sized keyboard
Cons:
1. Subpar performance scores
2. Relatively small touchpad
3. Stiff single touch button
4. Week processor
5. Dust catching finish which is difficult to maintain
6. Bumpy battery at the base.
7. No optical drive
8. Less spate to increase the ram capacity
9. Small HDD of only 160 Gb
Hardware Overview:
1. CPU: 1.33-GHz Intel Atom Z520
2. OS: Windows XP Home
3. RAM/Expandable to: 1GB/2GB
4. Hard Drive Size/Speed: 160GB/5,400 rpm
5. Optical Drive: None
6. Display/Resolution: 11.6 inches/1364 x 768
7. Graphics/Video Memory: Intel GMA 500/384MB
8. HDD 160 GB.