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With only a few hours left of 2009, Acer has decided to drop the details on its newest Aspire One netbook. Not a huge surprise given the recent Pine Trail Atom updates, and as a whole the netbook isn’t entirely exciting. It does have a few new features for Acer, however.
The new netbook is the Acer Aspire One 532h. It features the Intel Atom N450 1.66 GHz, and the old standby netbook specs, 160 GB HDD, 1 GB RAM, etc. The 532h, however, replaces Windows XP with Windows 7 Starter. It has a 10-inch LED-lit screen which, paired with the Pine Trail Atom, should give even greater battery life, anywhere from 8 to 10 hours based on the quality of the 6-cell battery it seems. The keyboard is a decent 93 percent size, and the touchpad has been enlarged to better handle multitouch functions. The Aspire One 532h, despite the new Atom processor and Windows 7 Starter will cost $300.
While it doesn’t have the specs that some of the other Pine Trail netbooks have, the 532h looks to be a good deal. It won’t start shipping until late January, so there might some announcements between now and then that may overshadow it before it does see the light of day. Those possible CES or Apple announcements don’t make it any less of good netbook, it just won’t seem as shiny, new or exciting. That is assuming you find LED backlighting and a Pine Trail processor can make something new, shiny and exciting.
Read [Electronista]
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