Acer Aspire One 532h is a new netbook with extremely powerful battery, nice design and a much better price than the competitors.
Acer Aspire One 532h pros:
+ Intel Atom N450 processor
+ Good audio quality
+ Large and comfy touchpad
+ Outstanding battery life
+ Interesting design
+ Competitive price
+ Windows 7 starter
+ 160GB HDD
Acer Aspire One 532h cons:
- Gets slightly hot on bottom left
- Keyboard might be too small for some users
- Chassis is a fingerprint magnet
The design:
Acer Aspire One 532h measures 10.17″ (W) x7.28″ (D) x .99″ (H) and weighs 2.76 lbs. | 1.25 kg. The netbook is available in three different colors so you can get the most suitable for you yet all of them will attract fingerprints quite fast. Above the 10-inch screen there is the built-in webcam. The keyboard in the Acer Aspire One 532h is totally flat and it provides good feedback so it is comfortable to use. The touchpad is quite large in this netbook and measures 2.6 x 1.4 inch. With that size and multitouch support it is really handy. Below it is a single button so depending on the position of your click you will get left, or right click. The netbook has plenty of connection ports and even a memory card reader.
Performance:
The Acer Aspire One 532h is equipped with quite a powerful battery which will work for up to 8 hours. The netbook is relatively cool although with prolonged use it might get a bit too warm of the left side. The 10.1-inch display shows 1024 x 600 pixels, it is bright and with good contrast. The stereo speakers are quite powerful and high quality.
Although the Acer Aspire One 532h is equipped with the new 1.66-GHz Intel Atom N450 processor it scores slightly below average in performance tests. On the PCMark05 test it scored 1,332 which is not that bad, yet netbooks such as Samsung N510 or Gateway LT2016u do a better job. Consequently the Acer Aspire One 532h will not enable you to play most of the latest games, but watching high quality movies should not be a problem.
The battery performance in the Acer Aspire One 532h is much better than in the competition. The netbook can work about 8 hours depending on what you do with it.
Conclusion:
The Acer Aspire One 532h is powerful enough to allows browsing multiple websites, listening to music and watching a video at the same time. It has good speakers and high quality screen and although you won’t play games on it the netbook is good for office work. Especially considering its price.
Selected Acer Aspire One 532h features and specifications:
- Intel® Atom(TM) Processor N450 (1.66GHz, 512KB L2 cache, 667MHz FSB)
- 10.1″ WSVGA Acer CrystalBrite(TM) LED-backlit Display
- Mobile Intel® NM10 Express Chipset
- Integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3150
- 1024MB DDR2 667MHz Memory
- 160GB(2) 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
- Multi-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader
- Acer InviLink(TM) Nplify(TM) 802.11b/g/Draft-N Wi-Fi CERTIFIED®
- 10/100 Fast Ethernet LAN (RJ-45)
- Built-in Webcam
- Two Built-in Stereo Speaker
- s Multi-Gesture Touchpad
- 3 – USB 2.0 Ports
- 6-cell Li-ion Battery (4400 mAh)
- Windows® 7 Starter
- Available in 3 colors: Onyx Blue, Garnet Red and Silver Matrix.
- Price: $299.99
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