We have recently reviewed some of the cool and surprisingly powerful Acer blue notebooks as well as netbooks on the market. Acer along with other manufacturers has designed several blue notebooks which tend to share several similar features.

Acer Blue Notebooks

Lately we are seeing a good mix of blue notebooks popping up on the market with a mix of operating systems including Windows 7 in its first release. This is good to see and it will be interesting to discover how Windows 7 winds up being received when compared to XP and Vista.

It should do quite well as there have been an abundant number of new features added and as far as the notebooks go power consumption continues to be a real focus for all of the major laptop manufacturers these days where going green is promoted as being in vogue. This is where laptop owners are able to reduce the energy consumption of the notebook.


The Acer blue AOD250 we reviewed recently offers several benefits such as ultra portability for those seeking to travel as light as possible while still being able to reliably surf the web, stream videos, create and edit documents and do email. The smaller netbooks really are great for this type of usage.

Performance wise this netbook is designed around the Intel Atom N270 processor which does take advantage of the more advanced performance as well as efficiency capabilities when working in conjunction with the newer features built into the operating system. This is very common these days for netbooks and notebooks. This will be another interesting point to watch exactly how Windows 7 falls into place among long term performance and efficiency in laptop computers.

The blue Acer Aspire One we reviewed which is classified as a netbook, had a 160GB hard drive and 1GB of DDR2 system memory. In addition was the surprisingly powerful integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 video processor. The note about it being surprising is in the fact that the display remained exceptionally bright while benchmarking the netbook. This is quite common on notebooks these days but the little netbooks tend to operate differently depending on power source. This is most likely a result of their design and how they use the advanced power saving features of both the hardware and the operating system.

The standard screen size for the Acer AOD250-1580 is 10.1 inches. The display screen is designed around the CrystalBrite technology and offers a very bright backlit LED with a 1024x600 resolution. Standard video displays well and is perfect for Internet uses.


The integrated Crystal Eye webcam has support for the Acer PrimaLite technology which uses a special sensor which provides superior video performance within the netbook class. Though this model is considered a netbook its ability to function exceptionally well in low light conditions makes it stand out from the crowd. Most notebook manufacturers today have comparable technologies as the colored notebook computer market is quite competitive.

The multi-in-1 memory card reader offers compatibility with various sizes of MultiMediaCard technology, xD Picture Card, Secure Digital, Memory Stick as well as Memory Stick PRO. Versatility in notebook computers these days is fairly consistent across the board when it comes to storage.

Other multimedia features include the standards you will find on nearly any laptop these days including headphone jack, microphone jack, WiFi wireless capability, VGA output, stereo speakers etc. One last point of interest on the Acer blue notebooks we reviewed is on the AOD250 netbook where the seven and a half hour charge life was achieved which is impressive and we will likely see this become much more common in the future.