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| Review Date: January 10, 2010 |
| Reviewer: J. Starr, |
| I went into walmart today like everyone else and noticed this netbook. I didnt know how emachines netbooks rated so i went home and googled it, after realizing it is the same as the acer one i ran back and bought it. $228 how can you go wrong, battery time has been great so far but will probably upgrade to the 6 cell later. but as it is way more time then my laptop, seems to run fast enough but will upgrade to 2gb ram and linux soon. I love the case. I have been looking for a netbook for a while now this one really impresses. |
FANTASTIC NETBOOK
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| Review Date: January 11, 2010 |
| Reviewer: The Witz's, Ellicott City, MD |
DITTO THE WALMART STORY. Went home and read the reviews on Amazon. This emachine is identical to the Acer d250 minus the option for a larger battery, which you can purchase if you need it. So far I get a good 3 hrs browsing the internet. Great buy at $228.
Windows 7 starter is ok but does not come with an email client like outlook express(xp). Download Monzillia's Thunderbird, it works great and is much better than outlook express or windows mail.
In all this is a great netbook. Fast, good battery life, great screen, $price, and comes with 7.
As others have said go to Walmart and get one if you can find one. |
Its a great netbook!
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| Review Date: January 4, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Jason Carver, Sacramento , CA USA |
Like many other reviewers, I too got this at Wally World. It was a steal for the amount of HDD Space they were offering at such the low price. Even though this has Windows 7 Starter, and not the ability to change your backgrounds, or the pretty transparent effects, Its just as fast as using Windows XP. I got a lot of my casual games loaded on it, and they ran great. I ripped a DVD from a program and copied it to the netbook using a USB flash drive. I was able to watch the whole movie using Power DVD version 7 using the mobile optimizations built into the program and still have a good battery time to play a game of solitaire before it truly died. You will get an average of 2 hours and 45 minutes with the battery depending on the tasks you do.
The memory card reader and the Wifi are great too. When you take a look at it in contrast, you are reminded that this is essentially an Acer Aspire One with an eMachines branding on it, so you will get the same quality as Acer as you will in this eMachine.
Overall , this is a nice netbook.
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Great little machine!!
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| Review Date: January 13, 2010 |
| Reviewer: S. Heffelfinger, New Hampshire |
Picked mine up at Mr Walton's retail outlet for the current $228 price.
I was pleasantly surprised by the performance and overall functionality. Don't be scared by the eMachines label-- it's just an Acer in sheep's clothing!!
I've stripped off the MS Office trial version and installed Open Office 3.2.
Upgraded the memory to 2G for $40 on eBay and it runs like a little greased pig!!
Next upgrade will be a 6 cell batetry.
I test software for a living and have installed VMWare player along w/ 2 Linux VMs: Open SUSE and Ubuntu. The netbook handles the VMs flawlessly.
Connecting to my wi-fi router was a breeze and I was able to VPN into my office machine without any problems.
Sure Win 7 Starter is a little cheesey-- but, hey, it is a fully functioning (though limited) OS.
I've read stories of a number of folks just stripping everything off the HD and going w/ one of the Linux flavors.
I'm VERY happy with my purchase and demonstrate the machine to anyone at work who'll give me 2 minutes of their time. |
Yes, it's an ACER. Aren't we the lucky ones!
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| Review Date: January 6, 2010 |
| Reviewer: M. Coty, Alabama |
| So I'm looking at the Acer... this guy tells me "There's some netbooks with a 250G harddrive... and they're cheaper. Right over there." I look, and sure enough, there's a display of nondescript cardboard boxes that just had to ruin my night. Two sisters and a brother got the Acer 250... and I was ABOUT to. I wanted a BLACK one, though, not that funky blue or red or pink or purple, etc. They only had blue and purple Acers. So I strolled over to see this "cheaper" netbook, and convince myself that I'd be spending more for a "real" name with the Acer. Of course, having worked at IBM, we sent out HDDs we did with the following names: ACER, Apple, Hitachi, Sun, Toshiba, Dell, etc. So I know that sometimes "off" brands are really just "lucky rewards" for those "daring enough" to try them. I scanned the code with my Droid, found YOU FOLKS that wrote reviews... and then got one. Sent a pic to my sis... Sure enough, same as the ACER 250. But cheaper. Now, she got her Acer from Amazon, and she got it with a 9 cell battery, for $279, no tax, no shipping. But for $228, I'll take the 3 cell, the color I LIKE, and by the time I get the 9 or 12 cell, and the 9% tax I paid... I'll be in the same ballpark (a little less) than she did. Anyway, long story short - if you are reading these reviews, wondering if you'll be "skimping to save a few dollars" on this "no name" with the catchy "eMachine" logo... you'll be getting an Acer... and yes.. the "manager's" name on pages 2 and three of the Quick Guide IS INDEED hilarious. But you gotta splurge, buy it... open the box and then look. Hey, this is a great little unit, and I hope it's solidly built. It has two USB ports on the left side, one on the right... Webcam, internal mic, jack for an external mic, headphone jack, a monitor cable input, ethernet jack, and a multiple storage card reader. Had it on for a few hours and it's nowhere NEAR as hot as my HP laptop gets. I know this is a wordy review, but if you need ONE more person to convince you - then hopefully I'm it. I didn't want to "sacrifice" and not get the Acer I wanted. I DID get it, plus a significantly larger hard drive. Oh, it comes PRE-LOADED with MS Office, but it's a 60-day trial version. You also have MS WORKS SE, which basically means unless you upgrade, you get a small "advertisement" in the bottom right corner of Works SE. No problem, just use the WordPad (which has grown into quite the little word processor over the years, without the frills). I will probably use that for writing, then just slam it on a USB drive and into my desktop where I'll open it in MS Word and save it there. (why pay for that application on both?) For the money, you can't go bad. A good review has a bit of poop - here it is: Don't expect your concert hall sound from this lil fella. But with that little audio headphone jack, you can plug up to a speaker set and rock all those free songs some of you may use this little netbook exclusively for. ;) Hopefully, you read these reviews as you are tossing back and forth between the Acer... and the CHEAPER priced Acer sold as an eMachine. You have 15 days to bring it back to Walmart, though, so don't listen to that little old lady working graveyard shift who tells you you have NINETY DAYS... You don't. Good luck. |
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