Acer unveils sexy Ferrari One notebook

Send to a friend Print
Shane McGlaun11 September 2009, 10:20 PM

Acer Ferrari One commands a price premium to go along with the prancing horse on its lid.


I am a big car enthusiast and my favorite brand (that I will never afford) is Ferrari. Ferrari cars are not only beautiful to look at, but they are seriously fast and seriously expensive as well. As close as you and I will probably every come to owning a Ferrari this side of watching a Magnum P.I. rerun is the dead sexy new Acer Ferrari One computer.

The sexy red machine has the prancing Italian horse logo on the cover and crams the new AMD Congo platform under the cover rather than that old and tired Intel Atom CPU that we see in normal Aspire One netbooks.



Under the sexy red cover lies an AMD Athlon X2 L310 CPU with dual cores running at 1.2GHz and sporting a 1MB L2 cache. The machine also has an ATI Radeon 3200 integrated GPU promising to accelerate video and support full 1080p resolution. The machine uses an 11.6-inch screen with a resolution of 1366 x 768.

Other features include Wi-Fi, optional HSPDA, a six-cell battery with 5600mAh of power and Dolby Home Theater. The machine starts at 499 Euros ($AUD577) and is set to go on sale October 22. Yes, everything with the Ferrari logo commands a premium.

Post your comment



Comments

 RSS feed Email alert

Tony23 (User):

I can't stop laughing.

13 September 2009, 12:50 PM (6 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

NetR@nger (User):

A ferrari hubcap would be faster than this,branding any netbook as "fast"is,in my opinion stupid.

14 September 2009, 8:30 AM (6 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

Tin (Senior Forumologist):

I'd rather an aging Testerossa that's been neglected... It's likely to break down less.

13 September 2009, 9:08 PM (6 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

todd_h86 (Cornerstone member):

Quick question... how well does the AMD Athlon X2 L310 running at 1.2GHz compare against the 1.66GHz Intel Atom N280? Also to me it makes me laugh that Ferrari and Acer are 'teaming up' I mean to me Acer is the cheap bottom of the barrell PC maker, not a high performance exotic and 'desirable' manufacturer.

14 September 2009, 9:51 AM (6 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

ajbabao (New user):

i just bought this unit and to my surprise it does work well running the 64bit operating system of windows ultimate: What sets itself apart is how it can stream videos in either dvd or blue ray or any common windows format such as Windows media and also Divx with your external drive. thanks to it's ATI 3200hd card thats directX 10 ready a built in 4gig RAM and 500Gig drive. with it's ATI XGP port you might be able to do light gaming that other netbooks have a difficulty with or light video encoding. It's a very serious and capable business ultraportable. I just have this concern with my previous AMD systems it generates heat. hotter than the intels i've used. This ferrari generates a hotter palm rest and exhaust heat on it's left vent and is quite noticeable as you hit the 1 hour mark of usage. But it's dual core processor speed and smoothness against other netbooks can't be compared.

03 January 2010, 4:12 AM (2 months ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

Not signed in
anonymous user Anonymous user


Tags