Acer reduces orders of Acer Aspire One 751 (AO751H)
Acer has asked Quanta (a popular notebook manufacture which manufactures Acer AO751) to slow down the production of their Acer Aspire 751 as they are not able to sell enough of these new 11.6-inch netbooks. According to Acer, people are still preferring the 10-inch models over the 11-inch ones.
However, we beg to differ. The Acer 751 is equipped with a processor (Atom Z520) that performs very poorly as compared to Atom N270, which comes in almost all the 10-inch netbooks. Even a common man can predict that a 1.3GHz processor (Z520) won’t perform as good as 1.6GHz processor (N270).
In our tests, it took Acer Aspire 751 nearly 55 seconds to boot the stock Windows XP, which is really bad for a netbook.
[via digitimes]
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Admitted unadulterated idiot with 1st laptop, ‘tho former tech in B.C. 1990s.
RE: 751h. some harsh reviews, and I’d set mine up in a ridiculous hurry, with added handicap of not knowing or planning to know; Vista.
I added vital at that moment emergency basics: camera, email, live streaming TV news video, different security.
But-Bootime is 24-26 avg to 30 sec max every time..on power setting ‘Balanced’.Semi low. What am I doing right, or more likely, Wrong? I must be leaving out something Really cool/important that I will discover here soon. I had planned on adding on but doesnt seem I must.Yet.
My sincere if very stupid question; Like cars off assembly lines- is it possible for individual units to differ this much? Did I seriously just get lucky?doubtful but truly appreciate your experience & thoughts.
Before you pan Asus for including a slower CPU in their 11,6″ netbook, you should be aware that Intel only allows usage of the faster Atom CPUs in netbooks with max screen sizes of 10″ (i.e., only the customary 1024×600 resolution or below). So, it’s not as if Asus had a choice – either include the slower Atom, or go for a non-Intel CPU.
Sadly, Z520 can give average performance even when running a near-decade old OS like XP. Its performance is much slower than the N270, which can even run vista pretty nicely.
ASUS and ACER should both go for the AMD cpu for these new 10+-inch netbooks.
That said, ACER is already selling the Acer Aspire 751H with AMD cpu in UK
http://gadgetmix.com/index/packard-bell-unveils-dot-s-and-dot-m-netbooks-in-uk/
I don’t know why so many people seem to dislike this netbook because of its speed. Since when do people buy netbooks for speed? I worked on an Asus EEE 701 SD for half a year. I used it for college (open office) and for surfing the internet, watching youtube movies etc. Was it fast? Compared to a normal notebook, no. Was it adequate? Yes.
A few days ago that EEE 701 broke down so I took that occasion to buy myself a new netbook. I looked at the EEE 1000H and, found it a little too bulky. The Acer Aspire One D150 had a pretty bad mouse pad. I went to another store where they sold the Acer 751h for the same price as the EEE 1000h, with the main difference being screen size and resolution. I’m not going to complain about 300Mhz in processor speed; windows runs smoothy (albeit after I removed mcaffee), starts up as fast as ubuntu 9.04 did on my EEE 701, which is around a minute, I can run office 2007 without a hassle, browse the internet and watch youtube, listen to myspace music etc. without a problem.
My point is that people always seem to want faster computers but when they have them, they don’t use half or even less of its full processing power because all they use it for are daily tasks. You don’t need a quadcore 2 ghz processor with 4 gigs of DD2 RAM when all you do is surf the internet, write texts, chat or watch a movie.
Anyway, I’m very satisfied with my Acer 751 since it does what I want it to do, with some extras that might be useful someday.
I think that manufacturers could include overclocking option for CPU speed to avoid the limitation.
Also you are wrong with “you don’t need quad-core&4GB ram” – unfortunately, modern browsers leak memory like crazy (mostly due to JS on the sites), I often have firefox approaching 1GB and if it goes above 1,5 gigs – I consider restarting it. 32bit IE was a nightmare, having 3 tabs of online RPG (nothing more) caused up to 1.7GB usage in several days session (I use standby).
Flash&JS can easily kill any modern CPU core and modern browsers promise to use multiple threads as well – so they’ll be able to kill multiple cpu cores.
Re: “needing” 4GB of RAM to run a web browser, I really don’t understand why people don’t just reboot their computers more often. Even if you consider a two-minute restart cycle to be criminally slow, just leave it to do its business while you’re off doing yours.
In any case, I’m with Maarten as regards the Acer 751. The combination of the screen (with as much vertical display space as my current laptop), keyboard (actually larger than those on Dell’s 12-inch offerings), and Windows XP make this the machine I’ve been waiting for ever since the first netbooks came out. Install a virtual optical drive with something like Alcohol 52%, and you don’t even have to spring for an external one.
If you want raw speed and power, then obviously you ought to look elsewhere, but I know this machine can handle most of what I need on a day-to-day basis because all of its specs are superior to those of the laptop that got me through college. The fact that you can essentially buy an ultraportable laptop for under $400 is simply phenomenal. :-)
Im wondering whether i should get one of these acer 751s, and the processor speed has me a little concerned. I’ve heard that it is unable to play some hd content of youtube. Is this an isolated case or very common? Other than that i would just download music, used word and browse the internet. Or would I be better off going for a 10″ asus?
I’m sorry but I can’t understand why would someone want to play HD content on 11.6 screen? What’s the point? You won’t see any difference in quality on such a small screen…
Many of us do not want to convert our existing HD content to low-res
I have an acer 751 z520 and it freezes on me every chance it gets i had to send it back for repair twice the first it came back it still froze waiting for it now update you when i get it back