Acer Aspire One D250 Review & Aspire One D250 Battery

Design

Let’s be honest: The D250 isn’t exactly the flashiest of netbooks. The sleek lines and brushed aluminum palm rest certainly add a touch of class, but it’s not the sort of machine that’s going to turn a lot of heads. (Except, perhaps, to gawk at the multitude of fingerprints adorning the lid. Why anyone continues to make portable devices with glossy coatings is totally beyond me.)

But head-turner or no, in terms of function it’s exceptionally well put together.

Two USB ports adorn the right edge, along with the power jack, locking mechanism, and memory card slot. The left side gets another USB port — a very sensible design choice — as well as headphone and mic connectors, VGA out, and an Ethernet jack. That lineup may not be earth-shaking, but it’s a generous selection of I/O options given the extremely limited real estate; the space on the sides is barely half an inch thick — thin enough that it has to bell out very slightly to accommodate the VGA connector.

But this is why I got this machine, you know: It’s just ridiculously thin and light. The official measurements are as follows: 10.2″ (258.5mm) W x 7.2″ (184.0mm) D x 1.0” (25.4) H, with a weight of 2.8 lbs. (1.27 kg) with my six-cell battery. (Acer claims the three-cell version is 2.4 lbs., or 1.1 kg.) Now, as I showed in my initial impressions, that thickness measurement is slightly misleading: Thanks to the bulk and angle of the battery, the 6-cell version actually breaks 1.25″ at the hinge, albeit barely. It’s hard to complain too much about that extra quarter-inch, but if thickness is absolutely paramount for you, you should know you may need to pop off the battery to get it to its thinnest form.

Battery

I’ve saved the best for last. Let’s talk about acer aspire one d250 battery life.

It’s ridiculous.

I mean, ridiculous. I knew when I picked up the 6-cell model that I could expect solid aspire one battery life, but I had no idea how solid. Here’s how I used this machine in a real-world scenario: I’d check e-mail in the morning, then hibernate the machine and disconnect from power. For the next eight hours, I’d pull it out and wake it up for about half an hour at a stretch every two hours or so, leaving the screen set as dim as possible (which as I say is still quite bright) and WiFi off, where I’d use it to take notes during demos and press conferences. At at least one point during the day, for one to two hours, I’d turn on WiFi and check e-mail, go online to research some facts for my previews, and turn those notes into full write-ups.

So on average the machine would get about two to two and a half hours of very light-power-consumption use, and then another one to two hours of heavy WiFi and web access. And yet, there wasn’t a single day when the power meter reported less than 60 percent power remaining by the end of the day.

It’s hard to appreciate how useful this is until you realize that without the fear of a acer aspire one battery going out on you you can take all your notes via typing rather than longhand. There’s a very, very large difference between hoping you’ll have enough acer aspire one d250 battery life to get you through your day, and having no doubt whatsoever that you will.


Informations from: http://www.liliputing.com/2009/06/acer-aspire-one-d250-review.html


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