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Photos of a black Acer Aspire One with a 6-cell battery pack have emerged, believed to be the Aspire One A150. The photos are by Flickr user unten44; specifications of the netbook are in keeping with the current Aspire One netbook range, with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, 1GB of RAM and 160GB hard-drive. In fact, the only key difference other than the case color is the battery life, which Acer rate for up to 6hrs use.
The Aspire One A150 has three USB 2.0 ports, VGA output, audio in/out and dual memory card readers. It also has WiFi a/b/g and wired ethernet, and weighs 1.26kg with the new, double-capacity battery (that’s 160g more than the 3-cell variants). User feedback suggests around 5hrs runtime from the larger pack.
It’s expected to launch soon, It’s already available, priced at €399 ($498) and to be, at least initially, the only way to get a black netbook from Acer. You can see our review of the Acer Aspire One here.
11 Responses to “Acer Aspire One A150 in black with 6-cell battery”
Speedtrap October 28, 2008
“It’s expected to launch soon”
A bit behind the times arn’t we?
NeutralI have had one of these for almost 2 months now.
And in the real world, you get about 5 hours on the battery, but that is still not bad.
Richard October 28, 2008
These are my flickr photos. I don’t mind contributing to the tech community, but please put my name (unten44) in the photo credit if you’re going to use them.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/unten44/2901024991/
Also, I’ve owned this onyx black Aspire One with 6-cell battery for about two months now.
+1Mik October 28, 2008
Huh? Where? where can you get this model from? how much in british pounds?
The one on amazon is 3hrs max…
NeutralGreg October 28, 2008
Damn, looks like Slashgear is into grabbing other peoples work as their own. Come on Slashgear give the guy props for his photos. That or put him on the payroll.
NeutralChris Davies October 29, 2008
Thanks Richard, and apologies for the confusion – I had thought they were Blogeee’s images, hence the attribution link in the first paragraph. I’ve updated the post accordingly now. How are you finding the A150? I have to say I prefer the black casing to the white one we got in to review.
Greg, we’d never claim someone else’s work as our own – for a start, it’s much more fun doing it ourselves. The images were attributed to the wrong person, not us. And much as we’d like to be able to put Richard on the payroll, I hope he’ll settle for the new link :)
NeutralMik October 29, 2008
Hey Chris,
Where is it possible to buy this model? Any UK people here?
This new model looks absolutely amazing. I really need hands on it.
Do any of you actually know any further modifications that will be made on Aspire A150 near Christmas or even next year, such as this battery modification? Or will this be the latest one for quite some time?
Nice pics btw – give him a payroll or even a lump sum
NeutralDonnieDio November 16, 2008
Every Aspire One I can see has “A150″ in the name, which specific model is this?
NeutralGeoff December 3, 2008
I picked one of these baby’s up (AOA 150Bb In Sapphire blue) at Changi airport in Singapore on the way from the UK for a holiday in Oz in November 08; It cost around £310. It was so handy to have a netbook on holiday (previously all I had to rely on internet cafes and hotel facilities oh and a Blackberry which I no longer have after changing jobs recently); and meant I could confirm/book onward flights through wireless hot spots- lovely.
It is one of the coolest things I have ever bought, the battery life is sound at 6hrs (I have had that much including watching a 90 minute Divx movie on an internal flight (Virgin Blue make you swipe your credit card to watch their TV system), On the downside, the documentation is light, they do nt provide any software on disk (it’s all preinstalled with “recovery” options which scares me a bit) and I was unable to register the machine with Acer (the UK site doesn’t recognise the serial number as it’s not a UK version – the @ and ” are swapped as you would expect on a US keyboard).
Since getting back I’ve removed Office (it’s a trial copy they bundle anyway so I’ve installed Open Office for the first time and have to say it’s great for a free suite.) Also installed the MAME emulator (loving that) and tried some (albeit older) 3D games to test out the ‘onboard graphics’ (gives me a shiver everytime I say that), and the result was pretty good. Everything ‘turned on’ in Max Payne 2 and it ran nice and smooth.
I may in time try to upgrade the RAM from 1GB to 2GB (if only to breach the MS licencse on XP HE) but that would be about it.
NeutralGeoff December 3, 2008
Oh I forgot, for DonnieDio, the full model number is A150-1982 (That;s the 160Gb, 1Gb RAM model).
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NeutralJoe December 31, 2008
Geoff,
Have you tried to upgrade to 2GB of RAM yet? I really want to get one of these machines but don’t want to if I can’t get it up to 2GB
Thanks,
NeutralJoe
Jenna January 10, 2009
Any update on where to get one of these in the UK? I can’t find it anywhere and I need to have the 6-cell battery as I want to use it at a tradeshow next month and need a little stamina!
Neutral