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Acer Aspire AS1410-2497 Notebook comes with these specs: Intel Celeron Processor 743, Windows 7 Home Premium, 11.6 HD Widescreen CineCrystal LED-backlit Display, Mobile Intel GS45 Express Chipset, 2048MB DDR2 667MHz Memory, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD, 250GB SATA Hard Drive, Acer Crystal Eye Webcam, Multi-in-1 Digital Media Card Reader, Dolby Sound Room Audio Enhancement, Intel WiFi Link 1000 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N, 3 – USB 2.0 Ports, 1 – HDMI Port, Multi-gesture Touchpad, 6-cell Li-ion Battery (4400 mAh), up to 6-hours of battery life, 3.08 lbs. | 1.4 kg (system unit only), AC Power Adapter, AC Power Cord, Wireless Setup Card, Registration/ Limited Warranty Card, McAfee Internet Security Suite (60-day insert) more info
Great purchase!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I think I may have just purchased the best deal of my life. Full of extras and the basics are easy, easy, easy. If you’re looking for a basic laptop that will knock your socks off, here it is.
Great 3rd gen netbook
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Pros- comfortable keyboard, HDMI and RAM expandable to 4GB
Cons- processing speed, no 3g wireless. The included ram is 2 1gb sticks, so you have to get 2 new 2gb sticks to max it out. The outside of the lid has a smooth texture so it covered in gets fingerprints but that’s very minor.
Overall great for a 3rd gen netbook and I actually do own this.
Aspire 1410
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
Acer Aspire AS1410-2497 11.6-Inch Blue Laptop – Up to 6 Hours of Battery Life (Windows 7 Home Premium) All in all great machine. However, be aware that this model sports a single core processor. The newer dual-core model with increased performance is model number 1410-2801 (with a smaller 160GB drive). Consider upgrading the internal hard drive to a larger WD WD6400BEVT 640GB. Have fun!
Fantastic netbook
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Considering the specs, that it comes with Win 7 Home Premium, and the price, this is a fantastic little machine. I wanted to use this for a perhaps slightly different purpose than most netbook users. I am a photographer and really wanted the ability to check photos in the field. Making sure things are in focus, for example, is often important because I do a lot of macro photography. It’s impossible to really tell on a camera LCD how the image has turned out. I own an older laptop, but it’s just too darn heavy to lug around all the time. I was a bit worried that the resolution of a 10-inch netbook would be too low to see good detail but with this netbook and its bright, higher-res screen, the details are all visible and the photos look great. Not that it would replace my desktop, but that’s not its intended purpose. That said, it’s useless in full sunlight but if you can find any sort of shady spot, it’s pretty good. A lot of my work is done indoors anyway. I’ve found I have to crank up the screen brightness outdoors and that helps a lot. That probably would affect battery life, but I don’t anticipate running out of power on a typical shoot anyway.
Of course, I’ve only had the thing for one day, so I can’t comment yet on reliability. It does run pretty fast and boots up quickly, so no complaints on performance. I don’t intend to put Photoshop on it since I just want it for review purposes and Windows Photo Viewer is perfectly adequate for that. Unfortunately, my camera uses Compact Flash cards and there’s no built-in reader for them, so I have to use an external USB reader. One more thing to carry, but I can live with it. Not a huge amount of crapware on this machine and what there was was easily removed.
The only other con (common to all netbooks) is that there’s no CD/DVD writer. I have yet to figure out how I’d restore the system without one if the hard drive ever had to be replaced. Apparently there’s some way to use a USB thumb drive but haven’t figured that out. I just decided to order a USB CD/DVD writer. Don’t think I’ll need it much but it will just make life easier – not only for disaster recovery but for any software installations I might do.
All in all, I’m pretty happy so far.
Netbook or Notebook? Rose by another name!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Technically a Notebook according to Intel and Microsoft, but priced like a Netbook. Intel and Microsoft won’t allow more than 1G DRAM and 160G of HDD in a Netbook and they MUST load Windows 7 Starter and they MUST have an ATOM.
If it is a “Notebook”, based on a Celeron, there aren’t any restrictions and they are ALLOWED to pay extra and load Windows 7 Home. In this case, it looks like Acer made a great deal on Win 7 Home and the Celeron big brother to the ATOM. Plus it has just enough better graphics to run Win 7 home. Most ATOM 270 or 280 units don’t have the graphics strength.
Maybe it’s just marketing on Intel’s part, but look up the ATOM and Celeron family trees in Wikipedia to better understand what is going on here.
This is a rose by another name and such a deal!
Another option is the Acer AS1410-2285 which has a dual core Celeron but a 160GB hard drive instead of 250GB. It’s a trade off, but either is a good buy vs. the typical netbooks that are available with Win 7 starter. The Acer units have twice the DRAM, a little bigger screen, a “real” Win 7 O.S. and much better graphics than any of the similarly priced netbooks.
Perfect laptop for a Perfect price
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
As a small internet business owner, I needed a laptop that is portable and reliable. I originally started looking at the 10″ netbooks, but found them to be too small and I hated that they only ran the Windows 7 Starter version which has some major restrictions. This 11.6″ laptop has a decent size screen and a nice size keyboard. I was deciding between this and the HP, but when you customize the HP to have all the same specs as this Acer, the cost was over $800 so this became a no-brainer.
I’ve had my Acer for about 1 month now and it is great. Windows 7 takes a little getting used to, but I’ve had no issues with it at all. I hooked it up to a wireless network printer without incident and it wasn’t loaded with a ton of garbage-ware. My only issue was that it only comes with the student/home trial version of MS Office, and I am an Outlook user. The entire office suite is expensive, so instead I tried Mozilla Thunderbird which is free and it works just as well as Outlook. Once my trial period for the MS Office software is up, I will purchase it for only $149 and keep Thunderbird as my email client which will save me a pretty penny.
Amazon had this laptop out to me in 3 days with free shipping (HP charged $35 for shipping).
If you are looking for a “net-book” with all the capabilities of a regular sized laptop, I highly recommend this Acer.