HOT! Acer Aspire AS1410-2285 Netbook $357 shipped @ Frys

Fry's.com has Acer Aspire AS1410-2285 Notebook in Diamond Black for $350. Shipping is $7. Thanks fibrepunk

Specs:

Intel Celeron Dual Core Processor SU2300 1.2 GHz
160GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
2GB DDR2 Dual-Channel 667MHz Memory, upgradeable to 4GB
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
Intel WiFi Link 1000 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N, 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN
Integrated Acer Crystal Eye Webcam
6-Cell Lithium-Ion Battery (4400 mAh)
Windows 7 Home

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Smoking hot deal on a dual core netbook! Don't know why this doesn't have more green.

Got one, looks like these sold out quick. But then, it was only a one-day sale.

Maybe because it's not available online or for instore pickup. Green anyway for OP!

Klingsor said: Smoking hot deal on a dual core netbook! Don't know why this doesn't have more green.

kirku said: I would love some Christmas help from FW on this one. I was given this computer for the holiday and I'm now comparing it to the 1410-8373, which appears to be a better computer. The main difference is a 250 GB HD and the processor. Can someone explain which processor is "better"? The 8373 has the Intel Core 2 Solo Processor ULV SU3500, 1.40 GHz with 3MB L2 Cache, 800MHz Front Bus Speed. I can't wrap my mind around which one is better. If someone can explain, I would appreciate it greatly!

Thank you!

Other than the larger hard drive on the 1410-8373, why would you consider it to be better than the one you own? Your 1410-2285 has a dual core CPU, which is significantly more powerful than the single core processor in the 8373. Even if you need a big hard drive, you're better off keeping your computer, buying a 500gb drive and installing that to replace the 160gb drive in your Acer.

OP, please change your product description to indicate that this netbook comes with Win 7 Home Premium, [edited and corrected].

VirtuaL said: lousygolfer said: OP, please change your product description to indicate that this netbook comes with Win 7 Premium, not Home.
There is no Win7 home, there is no win7 premium, there is only one single win7 home premium. Sort of. They still have both Home Basic and Home Premium. Home Basic is not available in the US though. But yeah, what lousygolfer wrote is very confused too.

By the way, I just wanted to say that it's a huge pet peeve of mine when OP adds "HOT" in the title. I think that's something that the community decides, not the poster. Just saying...

lousygolfer said: kirku said: I would love some Christmas help from FW on this one. I was given this computer for the holiday and I'm now comparing it to the 1410-8373, which appears to be a better computer. The main difference is a 250 GB HD and the processor. Can someone explain which processor is "better"? The 8373 has the Intel Core 2 Solo Processor ULV SU3500, 1.40 GHz with 3MB L2 Cache, 800MHz Front Bus Speed. I can't wrap my mind around which one is better. If someone can explain, I would appreciate it greatly!

Thank you!

Other than the larger hard drive on the 1410-8373, why would you consider it to be better than the one you own? Your 1410-2285 has a dual core CPU, which is significantly more powerful than the single core processor in the 8373. Even if you need a big hard drive, you're better off keeping your computer, buying a 500gb drive and installing that to replace the 160gb drive in your Acer.

OP, please change your product description to indicate that this netbook comes with Win 7 Premium, not Home.

Unless software is written to take advantage of 2 processors, it will only use a fraction of the second processor. The most intensive processing for many people is graphics. If the video software is processing a HD movie and not written to take advantage of two processors, given the same cache, the processor with faster clock rate may be better if it is pushing the limits. ( and with a processor some processors can handle multiple threads with are kind of like processors, things that can be done in parallel if the software is written to take advantage of them. However, that does not seem to be the case here - the 3500 doesn't and the 2300 did not indicate that on the following web page. )

Here is a site that can help get ballpark comparisons. The speeds of the two processors, dividing the dual processor numbers in half are pretty comparable, with the single process having a slight edge. However the 3500 has 3MB of cache verses 1MB of cache for 2 processors so some processes will be much faster than this benchmark indicates. (and a few might be slower - cache is a funny thing - the time taken to load up the cache does not always result in enough savings.)

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php

The single processor will probably will run loner on battery and run cooler and for some things faster unless a process uses two processors and doesn't have a big cache hit only having 1 MB of cache. (su2300-10w max, su3500-5.5watt max) Or the best thing might be to wait and see how the reviews come in to get a feel for how fast this dual processor 2300 is. Or maybe there is a good review already out there. I would not worry at all about either being fast enough for word processing or browsing and opening web pages.

http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=37133&code=su3500

http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=42779&code=su2300

I use linux but there is a way to check to see if what you are doing is using both processors in windows. I believe if you just do a ctrl-alt-del and select something like performance and then select something that shows the percent of utilization of each processor. Try that while viewing video. (Like Hulu HD-high definition if you have a fast internet connection or you pause and let the buffer fill up.)

jb2fw said: As for Win7, I find it interesting Microsoft says there are three editions: Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate, but yet I've seen ads for netbooks with Win 7 starter edition.That's because starter edition is not sold in a retail package.

@Kirku - It's pretty safe to assume that all software is written for multiple cores. I have had both laptops and I'd pay at least $100 more for the SU2300. It's so much faster when running multiple apps. If I'm scanning my PC for viruses, the SU3500 machine was near unusable yet the SU2300 was usable. The SU2300 has virtualization too. The SU2300 could have easily been called a Core 2 Duo SU2300. BTW, I no longer have my SU3500 machine.

17 reviews - overall quite good

http://www.Amazon.com/Acer-AS1410-2285-11-6-Inch-Windows-Premium/product-reviews/B002P3KVBI/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

about Hulu HD

Positive

"I'm able to easily output to my HDTV and watch streaming videos from Hulu. "

"The beefy graphics card and HDMI-out works great for watching HD movies on HULU or Youtube and putting them on a big screen TV with HDMI"

Negative

"I wish the HD video from youtube would be a little more fluent, but I really can't complain for the money." (on second page)

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Thank you quickfingerz, exactly the type of response I was looking for.

sinik said: Yelp said: Is this some sort of clearance item? Amazon doesn't have any in stock and hasn't for a while. Good price and no stock tends to indicate a clearance item. Wondering what new stuff might be coming out to replace it.Acer indicated that they'll be moving to some new chips soon. These might find their way into the 11.6 form factor. I'd be surprised if they were this cheap though--it seems like Acer underestimated the popularity of these machines at this price point, as evidenced by the MSRP of the Vista single core being higher than the model in this thread.

Acer for sure underestimated the popularity of 1410/1810 series with 11.6" screen. For example, higher end model with SU7300 ($599 MSRP) is almost impossible to find those days.

As for the price - this model is cheaper than Core Solo SU3500 just because of the price of the chip. As it was mentioned in this thread, SU3500 is about twice more expensive.

One other thing to keep in mind - SU3500 supports virtualization when SU2300 does not

dwkor said: sinik said: Yelp said: Is this some sort of clearance item? Amazon doesn't have any in stock and hasn't for a while. Good price and no stock tends to indicate a clearance item. Wondering what new stuff might be coming out to replace it.Acer indicated that they'll be moving to some new chips soon. These might find their way into the 11.6 form factor. I'd be surprised if they were this cheap though--it seems like Acer underestimated the popularity of these machines at this price point, as evidenced by the MSRP of the Vista single core being higher than the model in this thread.

Acer for sure underestimated the popularity of 1410/1810 series with 11.6" screen. For example, higher end model with SU7300 ($599 MSRP) is almost impossible to find those days.

As for the price - this model is cheaper than Core Solo SU3500 just because of the price of the chip. As it was mentioned in this thread, SU3500 is about twice more expensive.

One other thing to keep in mind - SU3500 supports virtualization when SU2300 does not

I could have sworn i saw a chart that said su2300 support virtualization

Went to Fry's B & M. It's not there. The store computer showed that at one point, the store had one in stock. ONE, as in 1, uno. I was not thrilled.

I was told that Friday there will be an 8 page ad with multiple sale items, blah blah blah.

cqlq said: I just bought a su3500 one. It's fast enough. I can watch 720p and 1080p HD smoothly, aslo online movie.

just no vista, vista really sucks,

cqlq, what player u used to play those HD contents? I used WMP came with W7 ultimate, but it's jerking, chopping a lot, it's unwatchable.

False alarm. My mistake.

try KMplayer. Best player I tried for Windows so far.

Aspire for a real notebook computer.