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@ 2009/05/05The Acer Aspire One isn’t cutting edge by any means, but nor is it aimed at the young, sporting an 8.9” screen and a keyboard suitable for fat fingered adults like myself. It has an Intel Atom N270 processor running at 1.6GHz, 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard disk drive.
Video is powered by an onboard Mobile Intel 945 express chipset running at 1024x600 resolution. This chip is not DirectX 10 compliant, but that’s no deal-breaker. You won’t be running Crysis on this machine! I made a fresh Windows 7 installation instead of opting to upgrade the existing Windows XP, but started clean. The installation was successful without errors or problems arising and without any missing hardware drivers afterwards.
Video is powered by an onboard Mobile Intel 945 express chipset running at 1024x600 resolution. This chip is not DirectX 10 compliant, but that’s no deal-breaker. You won’t be running Crysis on this machine! I made a fresh Windows 7 installation instead of opting to upgrade the existing Windows XP, but started clean. The installation was successful without errors or problems arising and without any missing hardware drivers afterwards.
