Acer Aspire One: New Netbook Models

As announced, the Acer Aspire One is now available in two new versions.  We've already seen an introductory model with a small SSD (8 GB), and there are now two more, this time with 'big' hard drives on board.  They now ship with 120 GB drives in place of the 80 GB that had previously been rumored.  As for memory, the two laptops in question have different specifications, the first with 512 MB of RAM and the second 1 GB.

If you're interested, be careful not to mix these two laptops up.  While the processor, an Intel Atom N270 (1.6 GHz) is found in both systems, other features are different while the model number differs by just a single letter.  Here are the names of the two computers and their specifications:

Aspire One A150-AW	Aspire One A150-Bw1
120 GB Hard drive   512 MB RAM   Linpus Linux Lite 3 cell battery	120 GB Hard drive 1 GB RAM   Windows XP 3 cell battery

As you can see, the BW1 comes with Windows XP and not Linpus Linux Lite.  According to our friends at Cowcotland, installing Microsoft's operating system on the basic 8 GB SSD version with only 512 MB of RAM had the machine on its knees.  Does the addition of a hard drive and 512 MB of extra RAM make things any better then?  A review in Laptopmag suggest it does, in fact.  The major speed problems seem to have been solved.  In their tests, they were easily able to run software like Office, use e-mail and even play World of Warcraft.