Just when we thought we’d heard everything we could ever want to hear about Netbooks and didn’t want to hear any more, along comes something new to catch our attention.
This time it is the upcoming launch of Acer’s Ferrari One Netbook, one of the first Netbooks to be based on AMD’s new platform. Yes, these low cost ultra portable devices just got damn interesting again.
Once you’ve got passed the F1 Ferrari branded design, which is super smart in a racy bright red colour with contrasting black and four neat little rubber tyres moulded to the bottom, you’ll soon find that under the bonnet things are looking just as good.
The new Ferrari One Netbook comes with an 11.6 inch display with a resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels and a pretty impressive array of specs.
The Netbook features the low power Athlon X2 Dual Core L310 processor, 2GB DDR2 300 MHz RAM (upgradeable to 4G), 250 GB hard drive but even more is possible, and DirectX 10 capable ATI Radeon HD 3200 adaptor for graphics.
For connectivity you’ve got 802.11b/g draft-n Wi-Fi and the option of a surf-anywhere 3G module as well as of course Gigabit Ethernet and Bluetooth.
No there isn’t an optical drive but there are heaps of slots and other features to enable you to do anything you want to do whether it is to conduct business, just for personal use or even gaming.
The Acer Ferrari One is supposedly going to be available to us mortals from October 22nd, which just happens to be the same day that Microsoft is releasing Windows 7.
The Ferrari will ship with either Windows 7 Home Premium OS or the Windows Starter Edition but Vista models are also available if that’s your particular poison.
Battery is a six cell which will supposedly give you around 5 hours of battery life but we won’t go into the battery life debate here. I would like to have seen a longer life away from a socket but what the heck.
It’s basically an upmarket Netbook with an upmarket price, starting at around 450 euros which equates to $656 United States Dollars or a whiff off of £400. These are starting prices though; it’ll cost you more if you want some of the extras.
If what I’ve seen so far is anything to go by it looks like I might just be persuaded to get my wallet out.
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