Acer Aspire One 532h-2326

Acer Aspire One 532h-2326 - Atom N450 1.66 GHz

Acer has become one of the most successful purveyors of Netbooks by relying on a simple premise: price beats everything. While HP, Dell, and others give lip service to low-end models while upselling you toward $500 Netbooks, the Acer Aspire One series embraces its $299 roots proudly. The very first Aspire One Netbooks looked and felt cheap, even if they had the same Windows XP/1GB RAM/Intel Atom combo as the competition. The newest version, the Aspire One 532h-2326, keeps up with the latest standard specs, such as an Intel Atom N450 CPU and a larger 250GB hard drive, to make it competitive with recent Netbook entries like the Toshiba NB305 and Asus Eee PC 1005PE. The current Aspire One has a decent keyboard, multitouch touch pad gestures (which you'll probably never use), and excellent battery life without a bulky battery. Add another $70-$100 for a system from another PC maker, and you can expect better construction and maybe Bluetooth. Add $100-$200 and you move into the realms of HD displays, faster processors, and Nvidia Ion graphics. But for the rock-bottom price of $299, it's hard to beat this bargain basement box.