Today we will introduce you to the Acer Aspire ONE 521 whose main characteristic is to be found in the integration of the AMD Nile. This model will differ for some characteristics that may be of interest to the end user.
The netbook market every day experiences important results and its strong growth: some brands have also chosen to support the common distribution channels other business decisions and sales and as such agreements with telephone companies are strategic. For this type of action, netbooks are most suitable for low-end and the battle on price is always very tough. Just
issues concerning the pricing and the need to secure significant volumes have led some to brand themselves by preferring the traditional distribution channels.
While Acer has often used a very aggressive promotions, the Aspire One 521 at the moment does not fall into this logic of competitive prices. This model has several features that set it apart from the multitude of solutions on the market and the following table may already provide some interesting information.
FEATURES Acer Aspire One 521
AMD 785GX Chipset AMD
V105 1.2 GHz ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 1GB DDR3 667MHz Memory
Hard Disk Drive Storage 250GB @ 5400rpm Optical Drive Away
I / O 3
USB 2.0 ports 1 VGA port 1 HDMI port
1 card reader Gigabit Ethernet LAN
a 0.3 megapixel Webcam
Wireless Connectivity 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0
10.1-inch LED display, 1024x600 pixels, polished
6-cell Li-ion 10.8V, 4400mAh, 48Wh
OS 7 Microsoft Windows Starter Edition 32bit
Price 315.00 Euro including VAT
To Aspire One 521 will be interesting to see the operational autonomy in relation to supplies deals. With regard to the amount of RAM and hard disk size is necessary to submit to certain limitations imposed by Microsoft on the hardware to use the edition of Windows Starter Edition 7. On the expandability
this Aspire One 521 has 3 USB 2.0 ports, a wireless D-sub 15 pin (VGA) and HDMI output, an option certainly not common on netbooks. Unfortunately we noticed that the HDMI connection and VGA are quite close and made it impractical to insert a contemporary of two connectors.
On the left side has an integrated card reader that supports the most diffusi formati di memory card, mentre per l'attivazione delle funzionalità wireless è stata scelta una combinazione di tasti da tastiera: la più rassicurante opzione basata su commutatore a slitta prevista su altri modelli non è stata integrata su questo Aspire One 521. Oltre alla presenza di un modulo Wi-Fi prodotto da Broadcom nella scheda tecnica viene indicata la presenza di un modulo Bluetooth 3.0. Avremmo voluto verificare le reali possibilità offerte da queste tecnologie ma il sample da noi provato ne era sprovvisto.
La batteria scelta da Acer è un componente a 6 celle agli ioni di litio da 48Wh@10,8V. Eventuali upgrade in termini di memoria ram o hard disk possono essere comodamente effettuati rimuovendo lo sportello posto nella parte inferiore dell' Aspire One 521. Le dimensioni sono vincolate alla diagonale del display e il produttore dichiara 59 x189.7x28.3 mm, mentre il peso è di circa 1,2Kg.
Le vere novità di Aspire One 521 sono da ricercare nell'hardware integrato nel prodotto. Infatti, questo modello è basato su piattaforma AMD Vision ormai disponibile da parecchi mesi.
Il processore AMD V105 ha un'architettura single core, funziona con un clock di 1.2GHz, è dotato di 512Kb di memoria cache di secondo livello e supporta memoria ram di tipo DDR3. Il TDP caratteristico dichiarato dal produttore è pari a 9W ed previsto il supporto alle tecnologie di virtualizzazione AMD-V.
Il chipset AMD 785GX integra il sottosistema video ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4225 with an operating frequency of the core at 382 MHz while the memory operates at 2775 MHz This video subsystem supports DirectX 10.1, and provides support for hardware decoding for HD content (MPEG-2, H.264, VC- 1).
The presence of this component has also allowed the inclusion of an HDMI port, a feature not common on netbooks exploitable for the connection of a subpanel. The 10-inch diagonal panel with a resolution of 1024x600 pixels is not suitable for a multimedia use of the product, but offers the right usability when used in mobility. Acer
foresaw a total of 1GB of DDR3 RAM running at 667MHz, while the hard disk has been chosen very common un'ormai component of 250 GB with rotational speed of 5400rpm.
BATTERY AUTONOMY AND CONCLUSIONS
To test the autonomy of the 'Aspire One 521 we used the procedure which allows web browsing through continuous wi-fi. During the test session are displayed pages containing some videos from YouTube and distributed is also made scrolling pages. To make the test more realistic and the brightness level was set at about 60nits are simulated and some breaks.
For this test we publish as a comparison to the same results obtained in tests conducted on the following notebook and netbook: Asus Eee PC
• 1201T: 6-cell Li-Ion, 10.8 V 4400mAh 47Wh;
• Samsung N150: Li-ion 6 celle, 11,1V 4400mAh 48Wh;
• Acer Aspire 1810T: Li-ion 6 celle 11,1 V 4400 mAh 48 Wh;
Acer Aspire One 521 è equipaggiato con una batteria da 6 celle agli ioni di litio da 48Wh (10,8V@4400mAh).
Acer Aspire One 521 rappresenta indubbiamente un'interessante alternativa alla moltitudine di prodotti basati su tecnologia Intel. Trattandosi di un netbook e il tipico utilizzo a cui questa categoria di prodotti è destinata, l'architettura single core della cpu non è da considerarsi un'eccessiva limitazione. Le prove hanno anche dimostrato un generale allineamento rispetto a prodotti simili, anche se ci troviamo ben distanti da quanto offerto da una CPU entry level per notebook.
Per quanto riguarda use the media presence of an HDMI connector is appreciated and allows you to use Acer Aspire One 521 as a player for HD content: from tests performed the hardware resources available are sufficient to ensure this use. Tests conducted in the past on other netbooks gave catastrophic results.
The autonomy of the product is, however, lower than the average netbook based on Intel Atom CPU and this is perhaps the biggest drawback of the Acer Aspire One 521, but similar considerations were also evident in the proof of the EeePC 1201T. On this delicate face, the distance to the Intel platform is still high. Acer Aspire One 521 has set a list price equal to 315.00 euros, but the real price in distribution would be much lower.
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