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    Aspire One D250 w/ Win7

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by yronnen, Dec 30, 2009.

  1. yronnen

    yronnen Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi,

    I just got an Aspire One D250 netbook. It runs Win XP SP3, but I can upgrade to Vista or Win7.

    Does anybody have the Aspire One with Win7? If so, how does it behave? Should I upgrade my memory? Also, the netbook is equipped with the low end embedded Intel graphics chipset, can it hold Win7 or Vista?

    Thanks.
     
    yronnen, Dec 30, 2009
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  2. jeremysdad

    jeremysdad Notebook Evangelist

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    Last year, I was dual-booting Vista and Win7 (both Ultimates), running Aero on both. That was on the original One (AAO150), so you should have no issues. The memory was upgraded to the max for that system, 1.5G.

    My brother has it now, and is still running Vista Ultimate on it, with no performance issues that are not due, in whole, to Vista being Vista. :) You should be fine. For that matter, they are coming with Win7 on them now, at least the one I was looking at in Wal Mart had 7 on it.
     
    jeremysdad, Dec 31, 2009
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  3. KeithB

    KeithB Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate on all three of my Acer netbooks stocked with 2 GB RAM: two AOD-150 and one AOD-250. Absolutely no problems with any of them.
     
    KeithB, Dec 31, 2009
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    KeithB Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yeah, but it's Windows 7 Starter, and you can't even change the desktop wallpaper. :(
     
    KeithB, Dec 31, 2009
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    The_Snowman Notebook Consultant

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    Netbooks should be more about speed and performance than looks; do a Google web search for "Windows tiny7"

    Me, I want to swap to a SSD as well in my D250, already got 2GB RAM, shopping for SSD............
     
    The_Snowman, Mar 11, 2010
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