Ultra Light Delight

Which one the Asus Eee or Aspire One?

by Juned on July 5th, 2008

If you were to buy any of these two Intel Atom powered ultraportables which one would you choose?

It has been said that the fight between the ultraportables is a competion a race or better yet a competion a boxing match between two ultraportables. Let us look at the Asus Eee 901 and the Acer Aspire One. How do they measure up?

Tale of the Tape between the two ultraportables. (Note: what seemed to be crucial differences are in bold)

Asus Eee 901

Screen size: 8.9”
OS: Genuine Windows XP® Home / GNU Linux
Storage: SSD 12GB (Genuine Windows XP® Home) / SSD 20GB (Linux) (1)
Processor: Intel Atom
Networking/connectivity: 802.11 n / Bluetooth (2)
RAM: 1GB (DDR2) (3)
WebCam: 1.3M Pixel
Audio: Dolby Sound Room Certified / Stereo speaker / Digital Array Mic
Battery: 6 Cells, 4.2 - 7.8 hrs (4)
Weight: 1.1 kg (5)

Acer Aspire One

Screen size: 8.9” (LED-backlit 1024×600 screen)
OS: Linupus Lite OS or Windows XP
Storage: 8GB of SSD and/or 80GB HDD (1)
Processor: Intel Atom
Networking/connectivity:Ethernet 10/100 (2)
RAM: 512,mb/1GB RAM (3)
WebCam: ?
Audio: ?
Battery: 3hrs (3-cell) and 6hrs (6-cell) battery options (4)
Weight: 950 gm (5)

Comparisons and observations:

(1) The Asus Eee 901 seems to have the slight edge in terms of storage.
(2) The Aus Eee 901 seems to have an advantage here because it has Bluetooth
(3) In terms of Ram they seem to be the same. It really is a wonder why they still install 512mb of Ram.
(4) The Asus Eee 901 has a one hour advantage (Maybe this is when you get to shut down a lot of the extra operations).
(5) Acer Aspire One is lighter.

So which one would you buy? The Asus Eee at US$559 or The Aspire $379?

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