Aspire One Processor

Hi there,

On the spur of the moment, I bought an Aspire One at Costco with an 11.6" screen. I love the extra real estate, however I am concerned about the processor, which is only 1.25gig. I have the option of taking this machine back. I did not realize that this was not a 1.6gig processor when I purchased it. Anyone have any experience with this model?
TIA

 

the 11.6 inch one uses an Intel Atom Z520 cpu, the fastest it is clocked to is 1.33Ghz.

if you want a 1.6GHz cpu, you would have to get the 8.9 or 10 inch one.

 

Sir,

Thanks for the reply. But, you aren't telling me anything that I already don't know.

I'll be more specific. These machines just rolled out. I have been reading good reports about the screen size. I'm hoping to hear a report or two about performance. I have 'heard' that this chip is a dual core and matches up quite well against the Atom 1.6. I performed a wPrime test. It took around 3 minutes.

 

It is not dual core, and it performs below the N270 found in 8.9" and 10.1" Acer netbooks. That said, the difference is nominal and fine for word processing/web browsing and should provide better battery life. If you are adventurous, the Z520 can be safely overclocked to equal the N270 atom.

 

It has hyperthreading which makes it look like a dual core in the task manager. Why is there no Z530 version of this?

 

None of the Atom processors in current netbooks are powerful enough for anything but internet, office work and multimedia consumption. Conversions and editing takes a lot of time.

That being said, I think it doesn't really make a difference what Atom you have, but the bump in screen resolution is definitely worth it.

If the Atom is to slow for you, it seems that there is a 11,6" Timeline notebook with CULV cpu coming soon (single and dual core, probably). That would be awesome.

 

Understood.

The bump in screen resolution is nothing to sneeze at. It makes for a real improvement in my estimation.

I have read some about this Timeline. Ouch! The price is out of sight. That is what makes this first generation of Netbooks attractive: under $500.

 

Are there any new facts about the 11,6" timeline? I just know that it's coming, nothing about price and specs so far...

But it seems to me that you will be quite happy with your Aspire One 11,6". Long battery life, good resolution, low price.

 

That's only true if you're using the SSD version without installing a software SSD buffer.

On my intel atom netbook, I can play 720P, 1080P blueray rip, maya 2009, autocad 2008, full adobe suite (AF, PP, PS..etc).

 

this cpu is underclocked by Acer to 1.24GHz as far as I know, which you can use setfsb to overclock it to a stable speed of 1.45GHz. I'm not sure if 1.6+ is stable yet though. This netbook is a good price, just the CPU might be slower, still good enough for most stuff.

 

Sounds interesting. Care to elaborate?

 

The SSD on these cheap netbooks are very slow. They're like floppy disk speed. Hovering around 250KB/s transfer speed in some situations.

There's a program called flashpoint specifically designed for these low end SSD which buffers the read/writes. These cheap SSD are capable of around 25-30MB/s transfer speed if the data is written sequentially.

 

Yeees, the SSDs in the 9" netbooks are slow. I own a Eee PC 1000H with a HDD, and it had my X25-M in it for some time. Of course, that speeds things up a lot, but it still doesn't benefit the performance of the Atom processor. Watching 720p on the Eee wasn't possible.

I even used to run MATLAB on the Eee. It was slow, but it worked. Converting videos and mp3s is the same, slow but steady. But if you need real-time performance like HD video or gaming, the Atom just isn't up to it.

So if you claim that you watch 720p or even 1080p on your netbook... how?

 

I just got the AAO AO751 from costco today, my cpu doesn't seem to be underclocked or anything some people are running at 1.24 or something? but mine is running at 1.33 the 800MHz was idling

 

there are 3 main board revisions for the 751.

first and second are under clocked. third is full speed.

 

In windows XP or Vista, use kmplayer + coreavc codec. Don't forget to set coreavc as external codec.
For Windows 7, use the built in windows media player or the built in media center.
720P (up to 10Mbps) and 1080P (up to 7.5Mbps) play flawlessly on my acer aspire one. Most blueray rip are below 5Mbps for both 720P and 1080P so my netbook can easily handle it.

 

i never knew that anyone got a clue which clock gen i use for setfsb to overclock it? i want to see how it performs with the overclock cpu.

 

Sorry, but you lost me. Could you expand a bit on the term SSD version? As well what might be involved installing an SSD buffer?

Update: I spent most of Sunday loading many of the same programs that I use on my PC. I am particularly pleased that one of my Astronomy programs that requires the drawing and re-drawing of detailed charts as well as some fairly complicated sorting functions performs much better than I might have otherwise expected.

 

Acer Aspire One's system performance is greately hampered by the very very slow SSD. However, Acer Aspire One with hdd as a storage medium is decent.