Skeptics have said that netbooks will become obsolete by the end of 2012 in favor of tablets and ultrabooks, but for the moments we see more and more ultrabooks being rolled out. The Acer Aspire D270 is a good entry-level netbook which has both plusses and minuses, but does it impress enough to make us want to buy one? In this article we’ll look at the main specs of the Acer D270 and try to give you as much information about this gadget as possible.
First of all, the D270 has kept some exterior details from its 2011 brother, the Acer Aspire One D257. You can clearly see the fact that the lid is practically the same, with some minor adjustments that make it look a bit more stylish. On the bottom of this mini laptop you’ll find a plastic casing in the same color as the gadget itself, which feels pretty solid. Opening the lid exposes the 10 inch display and the keyboard and touchpad. The keyboard is a classic clichet one from Acer which bends a bit when you type hard, but overall handles good.
Second of all, if you take a look at the screen you’ll see that it is a 1024 x 600 pixel LED-backlit display. The resolution is rather small for this year’s needs, not being able to natively display HD content, but the worst part about the screen is the fact that it’s glossy. You’ll soon find out that in direct sunlight a certain annoying glare appears which makes reading or watching a movie really hard.
In terms of performance, the Acer Aspire One D270 compensates a bit for the screen: it has an Intel Atom N2600 CPU clocked at 1.6GHz, 1GB of RAM and a 320GB hard drive. The CPU is a big step up from last year’s N570 series which used to come on netbooks world-wide, so we are happy to see Acer making a netbook that can actually deliver. On the other hand, they don’t offer at this moment a version with 2GB of RAM, but we hope that in the future they will change this.
All in all, this $279.99 netbook is worth your money if you plan to use it on tasks which don’t require that much computer power. As any netbook review will tell you, these devices can handle browsing, document editing and even basic gaming without a problem, but tend to be brought on their knees by bigger applications.
