The new netbook is not going to be cheap

Acer, which is keen to stamp its authority over the netbook market, has unveiled a shiny new ultra portable model sporting the familiar prancing horse logo. Acer is a sponsor of Ferarri’s F1 endeavours, and seems to be using its association with the brand to borrow some of Ferrari’s reputation as a luxury brand; the new netbook is not going to be cheap.

The Acer Ferrari One has an 11.6 inch display with 1,366 x 768 resolution. Instead of the Intel Atom CPU that we’re used to seeing in the Aspire One series, this new offering has an AMD Congo platform under the cover. This is a positive, given that the Yukon system was less than impressive.

Other specs include a 1.2GHz dual-core Athalon X2 L310 processor and Radeon Hc 3200 series graphics, 1GB of RAM, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, Dolby Home Theatre and a six cell battery with 5600 mAh of Power, said to give up to five hours of battery life.

The Acer Ferrari One will be available from October the 22^nd at a price of around £440.

5 Comments

The Number 27

Posted September 13, 2009 at 2:17 PM

hehe, Esther – I would hope that it comes with a little more than 1MB of RAM! apart from that, it sounds pretty good for a netbook – do you suppose they will produce a machine with the same spec but without the cheesy ferrari branding in the near future as well?

Liam

Posted September 13, 2009 at 5:07 PM

Looks pretty good. Though the Ferrari branding is annoying.
I also hope we see more netbooks using other platforms than the very poor performance Atoms. The C2D ULV processors are pretty good.

I want to see how the performance of the dual-core Atom scales though.

5 hours battery life is medicore for a high end netbook, with them usually offering 7 to 9 hours battery life.
I would want to see some serious benchmarks on this VS the atom before making a move on it.