From The Labs: The first Android netbook?

Summary: Acer has put Google's Android OS on its Aspire One D250 netbook, but is it any more than a sideshow? Charles McLellan investigates

By Charles McLellan | November 30, 2009 -- 11:33 GMT (03:33 PST)

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Acer has put Google's Android OS on its Aspire One D250 netbook, but is it any more than a sideshow? Charles McLellan investigates.

Topics: Laptops, Hardware, Reviews

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Ho-Hum Boot Time As Well

Good review Charles, and useful information. But Ho-Hum is certainly a good description of the boot time for an embedded pre-boot OS like that, isn't it? I can get pretty close to that with a full boot of many of the latest Linux distributions.

jw

j.a.watson@...

7 December, 2009 16:27

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Hum-Ho

I must admit to being somewhat underwhelmed too.

Tezzer-5cae2

7 December, 2009 20:17

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hem-hem ;-) For comparison

An Asus S101 with QuickBoot turned on in the BIOS (and the tiny but delightfully fast SSD) boots Windows 7 in 35 seconds, resumes from hibernation in 17 seconds and shuts down or hibernates in 15 seconds.

Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

8 December, 2009 00:48

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