ACER AO756-2840 11.6" Intel Celeron Processor 847 2GB DDR3 Ram 320GB Hard Drive Windows 8 (Black)

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Price: $299.99    

Product Feature

• Intel Celeron Processor 847
• 11.6" HD Acer CineCrystal LED LCD Display
• 2GB DDR3 Ram 320GB Hard Drive
• Windows 8 64-bit

Product Description

The Aspire One 756 is thin and light yet sports the power and features you need to complete your tasks, enjoy yourself and stay in touch wherever you go. To top it off, you have a choice of cool colors to match your fluid lifestyle. It feels good to have a netbook that not only does everything you need, looks cool and is priced right, but is also designed with the environment in mind.

ACER AO756-2840 11.6" Intel Celeron Processor 847 2GB DDR3 Ram 320GB Hard Drive Windows 8 (Black) Review

I read the reviews others have left for this model and I felt compelled to come to it's rescue. I didn't buy this netbook from Amazon. I got on sale from a major retail store. The reason I purchased The Aspire One is because my aged Eee PC 900 Linux has seen better days. I happened upon the AO756-2840 while browsing the computer section of a store and the price was good and being familiar with Acer products I jumped on it. When I got home I looked up some reviews for the 2840 in particular and found that besides Acer's website the only other place I found any were here. Acer's website had glorious reviews (of course). The reviews here weren't so hot. My heart sank. I decided to try the machine and form my own opinion. (Not to toot my own horn but I've been building and using PC's both as an enthusiast and professionally over the past 27 years. So I do possess a little technical knowledge when it comes to these matters.) From a hardware standpoint what you get for your money is far worth it. A 64 bit dual core processor running at 1100Mhz, 2 GB RAM and a 320GB hard drive. Intel HD graphics, etc.. You can see the specs above. On further investigation I found via using SiSoft SANDRA that the machine does in fact have 128 MB of dedicated video memory. This is not found in the specs. That brightened my day a bit. I should also mention that the 2840 has UEFI. The machine I purchased came with Windows 8. To my surprise there wasn't a whole lot of bloat-ware installed as I've experienced with other products. This was my first experience with Windows 8. And I have to say I do not like it. Thus the 4 stars. The dumbed down "Apps" page gets in my way and does not always find what I look for when using it's "search" function. Windows 8 and it's apps seem to me as those made for mobile devices such a tablets or smartphones (Android-like.). Also Windows 8 does not include a mail reader that supports POP mail. I found this to be a major put-off. I wound up installing Thunderbird, which I use on my desktop PC anyways. I also wound up installing a third party application to make Windows 8 behave like Windows 7 with it's Start button and menu. This provides me with a much friendlier user interface and something that I am more accustomed to. (I use GNU/Linux as my main OS and Win 7 for gaming.) I've run the machine through it's paces and I've found that for a netbook with low specs it performs better than I had hoped. Once the machine has booted it's pretty perky and opening applications doesn't take long at all. In all fairness for the given hardware this thing performs much better than I anticipated. You can multi-task and an acceptable rate of performance in my opinion. I should also mention that I was able to get 5 hours of battery life without forgoing anything. Buyers just need to be aware that this is a "NETBOOK" it's not a laptop and it's not going to perform like one. But it does do what it's designed for very well. You can surf the web, read and write email, write documents and presentations, do some light gaming on a machine that comes in a pretty small package. I should also mention that the 2840 has approximately the same specs as the 2626 (Except that the latter comes with 4GB RAM.) and has much better reviews. (The 2840 probably hasn't been purchased and fairly evaluated by Amazon customers due to the reviews it has received.)

I've been using the AO756-2840 for about a week now. I had intended to wipe the hard drive and install GNU/Linux but being that it does what I want I'll leave it as is. I really enjoy this little machine!!

(BTW.. I've tested this machine with various Debian GNU/Linux distributions and everything works fine right out of the box. If you choose to venture that way make sure that the distro you choose supports UEFI!)

In my humble opinion the AO756-2840 is a good product and a good value. Again I'll mention I gave it 4 stars because Windows 8 UI and Mail are lacking. Hardware-wise I would give it 5. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend this model to a friend or anyone looking for an inexpensive netbook at a decent price.

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