Acers latest offering – The Acer Aspire One 532H netbook

Acer continue to release new netbooks in an attempt, it seems, to dominate the netbook market. The latest netbook to hit our shelves is the Acer Aspire One 532H. This 10.1″ ruby red netbook uses Intels latest “Pine Trail” Atom N450 1.66GHz processor. Early reports suggested a great value netbook, but, it seems those reports may have been slightly off the mark. That aside, the 532H still gives you 1GB RAM, DDR2 SDRAM, 250GB HDD plus Windows 7. In addition to these, there will also be Wi-Fi networking, a multi-in-one media card reader, an integrated webcam, three USB 2.0 ports, and a multi-gesture trackpad.

The whole idea behind the Pine Trail Atom is to improve power efficiency and in turn increase battery life. Acer currently promise that the 532H will last up to 10 hours. According to reports, the six cell battery can reach the 8 and a half hour mark, which is still pretty good. As this is one of the first netbooks to use the Pine Trail Atom processor you may want to wait to see what other manufacturers can do with it? If not, you can currently get this one from Amazon for just over the £300 mark.