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Acer Ferrari One Netbook, AMD Athlon XL L310, 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD, 11.6" WXGA, Windows 7 Home Premium
The all-new Ferrari One, with its 11.6” High-Definition screen, latest AMD ultra-thin mobile platform with VISION technology, up to 5-hours battery life and exquisite details that celebrate the world’s most prestigious racing heritage is dedicated to those who see beyond perfection
Like the cars on which it's based, the Acer Ferrari One is designed to be fast, fun to use and good-looking.
The Ferrari One is a fabulously designed piece of kit. It's slightly larger than most netbooks, but that's a good thing, because its extra girth allows for a huge keyboard that's easier to type on than that of almost any laptop of any size. Each of its primary letter and number keys is larger than you'd get on a full-sized desktop keyboard, which is incredible given the Ferrari One's 1.5kg weight, and 285 by 24 by 204mm dimensions.
The mouse trackpad is good, too. It offers support for multi-touch gesture inputs just like the Apple MacBook range. You can pinch your fingers together or stretch them apart to zoom, twist them to rotate, and swipe to navigate forward or backwards through documents in most applications. This dramatically speeds up use of the device, particularly when browsing the Web.
Connectivity is good on the Ferrari One. It has two USB ports on the right, alongside a five-in-one memory-card reader, a mic jack and a headphone jack that also doubles as an optical digital SPDIF audio output. The left side has a third USB port, a D-Sub VGA video output port and an ATI XGP port. This allows the Ferrari One to connect to an external graphics card, which, in turn, can power up to four separate monitors, run games and display high-definition video.
The Ferrari One doesn't use an Intel Atom CPU, so it stands out next to the vast majority of netbooks. Instead, it uses AMD's 2nd Gen Ultrathin Platform, previously known by its code name, Congo. Its advantages over AMD's first-generation platform and netbooks that use Atom CPUs are numerous.
It has an ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics card, which is much more powerful than the integrated Intel graphics chips that ship with most netbooks. All in all this is the netbook to try to match.
Processor
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor L310 1.2GHz
- 1MB Cache
Memory
- 2GB DDR2
- Configuration: 1 x 2GB
Hard Drive
Optical Drive
Software
- Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
- Acer Assist
- Acer Crystal Eye
- Acer GridVista™
- Acer Launch Manager
- Acer eRecovery Management
- Acer Product Registration
- Acer Store Patch
- Acer Video Conference Manager 4.5
- Ferrari wallpaper and screensaver
- Adobe® Flash® Player 10
- Adobe® Reader® 9.1
- Customized Internet Explorer® 8.0
- eBay Desktop Shortcut
- eSobi™
- Google™ Setup
- Google™ Toolbar
- McAfee® Internet Security Suite Trial
- Mercado Libre
- Microsoft® Works 9 with Office Home and Student 2007 (Service Pack 1) Trial
- Microsoft® .NET Framework 2.0
- Norton™ Online Backup
- NTI Media Maker™
- Windows® Media Player 10
- Windows Live™ Essentials (Mail, Photo Gallery, Live™ Messenger, Writer)
Display
- 11.6" HD LED
- Resolution: 1366 x 768 WXGA
Graphics
Audio
Input Devices
Networking
- WLAN: Acer Nplify™ 802.11b/g/Draft-N
Power Supply
- 6 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
- Up to 5 Hours battery life
Dimensions
- 284 (W) mm
- 198 (D) mm
- 24/30 (H) mm
- Weight 1.4kg
Interfaces
- Three USB 2.0 ports
- Fast infrared (FIR) port
- External display (VGA) port
- Headphone/speaker/line-out jack with S/PDIF support
- Microphone-in jack
- Ethernet (RJ-45) port
- DC-in jack for AC adapter
Expansion
Warranty/Miscellaneous
- 1 Year Manufacturer Warranty
- 0.3mp Webcam
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