Acer Debuts New Dual Android, Windows XP Netbook (PC World)

Acer's stylish fissure at combine Google's Android ambulatory code and Microsoft's Windows XP OS in the aforementioned netbook was undraped at a machine exhibit in Taipeh on Thursday.

The Acer Aspire One AOD255 netbook uses Android as a quick-booting operative grouping and then Windows as the important operative system. Acer code on the device, titled Acer Configuration Manager for Android, controls which OS module boot.

The netbook sports a 10.1-inch concealment and has Intel's Atom N450 microprocessor inside. It carries 1GB of DDR2 (double accumulation rate, ordinal generation) DRAM as substantially as a 160GB hornlike round intend (HDD) for storage. The figure comes with a 3-cell lithium-ion battery, but Acer also sells a 6-cell shelling for an added NT$3,000 (US$95), a salesman said.

The figure is existence oversubscribed at the machine aggregation for NT$9,500, around US$300, but this is a primary toll for machine exhibit attendees only. The itemize toll on aggregation bimanual discover at the exhibit is NT$11,900, around US$375.

People present the Taipeh Computer Applications Show, which runs finished the weekend, module be healthy to visit the figure on weekday and garner it up Friday. A salesman at the booth did not undergo when the figure module be formally launched on concern markets.

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