UPDATE: The Acer Aspire One D260 netbook won’t be sold with Android installed in the UK, just Windows 7. An Acer spokesperson told us that “there was no demand” for the Android dual booting D250 last year, so if you’re looking for the version with Google’s OS on, you’ll have to import.
We first broke the news that the Acer Aspire One D260 dual booting netbook with Android installed was on the way, and now it’s official. Check out all the photos and details right here.
If you’ll recall Acer’s Aspire One D250 netbook launched late last year was one of the first Android laptops to go on sale in the West, and now it’s been replaced with the Acer Aspire One D260, a more pleasantly coloured version with bumped up specs.
Hardware wise, the Acer Aspire One D260 sports the latest Intel Atom N450 processor, optional 3G for getting online when you’re out and about, up to 2GB of DDR3 RAM (Fairly unusually in netbooks and a big plus), three USB ports, b/g/n Wi-Fi, and a battery good for eight hours of use. Conveniently, Acer’s shrunk the power brick into the mains plug unit itself, similar to the cable on the very first Asus Eee PC that kickstarted the whole netbook trend in 2007.
Read our Acer Aspire D250 Android netbook review now
As with the D250, the Acer Aspire One D260 dual boots between Android and Windows 7 – we’ve asked Acer for clarification as to which version of Android, but we’re not hopeful of anything later than Android 1.5 at the moment. While the Acer Aspire One D260 is a decently specced Windows machine, we’ve still to be convinced that Google’s OS can make a decent little laptop: HP failed using a low power ARM processor and, well, there’s a reason Google is making Chrome OS.
Still, we’ll be grabbing a hold of an Acer Aspire One D260 to review and find out. It goes on sale on 1 July, but in the meantime, check it out in photos right here, right now.
Out 1 July | £TBC | Acer
