Acer Aspire AS1410-8913 11.6-Inch Ruby Red Laptop – 6 Hour Battery Life
Acer Aspire AS1410-8913 11.6-Inch Ruby Red Laptop – 6 Hour Battery Life
Weighing just over 3 pounds and measures 1.2 inches thin, the Acer Aspire AS1410-8414 makes it easy to move in the world with a powerful PC. It includes a 6-cell battery that provides up to 6 hours of continuous use and a brightly colored 11.6-inch LCD screen as well as an HDMI port for connecting to an external monitor or HDTV for viewing presentations and movies. Presented in an elegant ruby red case, the thin and lightweight Aspire 1410 also features a full-size keyboard and Technology Acer ComfyTouch, which uses an innovative Laminar Wall Jet engine design of fresh air to the processor and the notebook case.
At its thinnest point, the Acer Aspire 1410 measures less than 1 cm in thickness and AS3810 weighs only 3.1 pounds.
Elegant blue sapphire, the Aspire 1410 also takes power up to 6 hours of battery life.
The Aspire 1410 is full-sized keyboard (blue model shown).
A Multi-gesture touchpad lets you pinch, rotate and Flick the fingers on the touchpad for a more natural picture and video viewing and an intuitive navigation of websites. Multi-gesture touchpad lets you scroll, zoom in and out and browse the web pages, photos, spreadsheets and more. Integrated Acer Crystal Eye webcam provides smooth video streaming and high quality images for online chats and video conferencing company, even in low light.
Other features include a 1.4 GHz Ultra Low Voltage (ULV) Intel Core 2 Solo SU3500, 250 GB hard drive, 2 GB of installed RAM, Draft-N Wi-Fi, and a multi-format memory card reader .
Networking, connectivity and expansion
With its integrated Draft-N Wi-Fi network capabilities, this handset offers up to five times the performance and twice the wireless range with 802.11n-compatible router like you would with 802.11g networks. It ‘also compatible with 802.11b / g networks (commonly found in hotspots Wi-Fi router at home and elderly), as well as 802.11a networks (which has a higher throughput, but more limited range – ideal for environments office closed). This notebook also offers ultra-fast Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000).
* 3 USB 2.0 ports for connecting a wide range of peripherals – from digital cameras to MP3 players
* 1 HDMI output for connection to a compatible HDTV or home theater receiver for uncompressed digital video and audio via a single cable
* Analog video output: 1 VGA
* 5-in-1 card reader compatible with MultiMediaCard, Secure Digital Card, Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO and xD-Picture Card
* 1 headphone / line-out jack (with SPDIF digital audio support), 1 microphone jack
* Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000
11.6-inch widescreen display with 16:9 Aspect Ratio
The 11.6-inch LED-backlit display (1366 x 768 pixels) features 16:9 aspect ratio high-def resolution and fast 8ms (millisecond) response time for high-quality playback of media, and greater readability in low light conditions . And the technology of LED backlighting is 33 percent more energy efficient than standard CCFL LCD displays.
Video is powered by Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD, which uses shared video memory (providing up to 1700 MB of video memory as allocated by the system memory). This graphics card is built with Intel Clear Video, which offers a sharper and more detailed images by eliminating many of the jagged edges and video artifacts seen when viewing interlaced content and features powerful color control to ensure the video are too dark, overly bright, or washed out.
Energy Efficient Intel Core 2 Solo Processor
It offers the ultimate in ultra-low voltage processing power, single-core Intel Core 2 Solo SU3500 has a rating is consuming just 5.5 watts and a speed of 1.4 GHz which is coupled with a fast 800 MHz front – side bus (FSB) and extra-large 3 MB L2 cache. (An L2, or secondary, cache temporarily stores data and a larger L2 cache can help speed up system performance. The FSB carries data between the CPU and RAM, and a faster front-side bus will provide better overall performance .) L ‘Core 2 Solo processor provides exceptional performance for demanding applications of today, such as CAD tools, 3D and 2D modeling, video editing, digital music, digital photography and gaming. Intel Smart Cache technology and enables smarter, more efficient cache and bus design for enhanced performance, responsiveness and power savings.
Customer Reviews
By Dave (Portland)
Keep checking the netbooks coming into hardware lab where I work, searching for something to replace a good one I bought for my kids to play with, but they all just seem too small. As a result I searched the high end of the range Netbook / Ultra-low end of the range laptop for something more usable. The Acer Aspire 1410 series does a great job of bridging the gap between small low-cost “netbooks” and more expensive “Ultra-portable” (which is what the classes Acer, like this one). Manages to overcome many of the weaknesses about netbooks, without getting anywhere near the $ 1000 + price range most ultra-portable. Has some drawbacks, in particular the quality of materials: as a lot of Acer products molding plastic is attractive and the tolerances are tight. However, the quality of plastic is more in line with what is expected, a netbook (which means that plastic is less density and more likely to scratch or break). For me, it is reasonable that the overall quality of the components is less than what I had if I did not spend $ 1000 (display as Nice, finishing not as refined as non-responsive buttons, etc. ..). Still, overall this is a computer and put together a good build quality considering the price. While I do not end up buying one myself when it might be the right fit for you if you’re on a budget and you need a small laptop that can do more to browse Web pages that would be a very good choice.
Go beyond the specifications:
CPU: Core 2 ULV SU3500 CPU is a great choice and much more powerful CPU Atom found in most Netbooks. This is a single core (as opposed to the center two “Core 2 Duo”) Ultra Low Voltage CPU at 1.4 GHz allows the application to correct this CPU is about 3-6x more powerful than a typical processor Atom. It also has 3 MB of cache (cache is a form of memory on-chip high-speed) vs. the Atom 512 KB. 6x with the Atom CPU cache this is going to spend much more time running the instructions and much less time waiting for the sub-system memory. It also helps that the Core 2 ULV SU3500 memory bus is about 25% faster than it is on an atom. The Core 2 is technically more thirsty for power than the Atom, but during the execution of applications, the difference is not significant (5 watts for the Core 2 vs 1.5 watts to Atom). The main difference that occurs when in standby or sleep mode, where the atom use much less power than the Core 2 (because of the type of transistors on Atom “leak” less power than those used for the Core 2, when in those modes). So if you need long battery life while carrying the computer in standby around with brief periods of activity you might prefer the Atom based Netbooks (eg sales calls on the road). I believe that many users will probably prefer the Core2 – I know what to do. Update: There may be a dual core version of this out soon. E ‘in the list of arriving at his job, but that does not mean it will be sold in the United States.
Memory: 2 GB of DDR2 RAM is plentiful and the speed of 667Mhz memory is quite good (notebook faster go up to 1066MHz). The system runs Vista is more memory-hungry Windows XP or Linux Netbook found anymore 2GB, but I’m not gonna go as you might think. Still, as long as your not going to do any really serious gaming 2GB will handle the typical office application, without problems.
HDD: 250GB HDD is plenty of storage, since many users do not use more than 50 GB. Serious gamers and video encoders will need much more space than this.
DISPLAY: The 11.6 “1366×768 screen looks good and is much more useful than the 8-10″ screens found on most Netbooks. The resolution is much better than what you find on most Netbooks and is bright enough (200 + nits vs 300 nits on the upper end laptops.) I’ve spent on this model, because the viewing angle is limited (the manufacturer list the viewing angles, as 60vert/90horiz than 120v/140h on a display of high-end) and my children like to stay with me and watch YouTube videos. Limited viewing angles could be a selling point for someone to travel rather not share what is on their screen with others. So while Acer clearly saved bit ‘of money here is still a good display: unless you need a really high quality LCD I think most people will be quite happy with this screen (once again is far better than what you will find in most Netbooks.) For those few who have at heart is made up of AU Optronics and I think it B116XW01 model.
GRAPHICS: Intel GMA X4500HD Mobile does not impress any gamers, but if you’re running business applications that will do well. Update: they have loaded Autocad on this thing at work and was not enough. He could be a driver issue, but the render times were terrible. Not really a surprise, but do not buy this to run the CAD software. Of course for most users this will not be a problem.
AUDIO: laptops are not known for sound and great orator, this notebook will not break from this trend. Even in this case is better than most Netbooks, but not by much. Update: With headphones I found the sound good.
DRIVES: Like most netbooks and ultra-portable that has no CD-ROM or DVD. I recommend buying an external CD Drive. The software industry can begin to move as soon as the USB drive (Windows 7 will be sold on the USB drive), so this can not be a big deal for much longer. Today is a pain not to have a CD-ROM.
BATTERY: 6-cell battery for this notebook is perfect (thanks to low power components). This notebook is probably too small for a cell 8 to form clean, but the cell Netbooks found in 4 more just is not enough, even for an Atom CPU. This 6-cell battery will provide about 3-5 hours of use even if the real aggressive power-saving mode can be obtained more than six hours. Update: We have two of these in our hardware lab and was just pointed out to me that one (which is pre-release) had a higher capacity battery than the release version (5600mAH vs 4400m). I changed my numbers the battery life of up to reflect the release version. It is interesting to note that the non-US version of this laptop’s battery has more capacity. I can only assume Acer was trying to lower prices to compete in the U.S. market close Netbook.
WEIGHT: Coming in 3.1 pounds this is little bit heavier than the typical netbook but not significantly (Netbooks will vary from £ 2-3). Most notebooks are regular 6-8 lbs.
WIRELESS: The usual Intel 5100 a / g / N supports the most common standards ( “A” and “G”) together with the new “N” standard. You should have no problems connecting to wireless networks. This is quite normal even if a few laptop 3G support out of the box.
In short: while this notebook is not perfect, is well constructed and, unlike most Netbooks, actually has a decent CPU. E ’small and light, but big enough that you can actually use. If you have 1K-2K to spend, you can get a better Ultra-portable notebook (I have a soft spot for Sony and Apple’s offering in this segment), but in this price range there is not much competition.
By Y. Yamamoto
This laptop is just by far the best laptop for overall functionality.
Pro
1. Very thin and light. Just a little ‘bigger than today’s netbooks
2. Much faster than Atom-based netbooks
3. Bright and wide screen aspect ratio true HD. Resolution helpful.
4. 4G cap expandable memory.
5. Very good microphone and webcam
6. Amazing battery life even with Core2solo CPU. They last longer than my other netbook with the same battery capacity.
7. HDMI out! wow
8. Wireless N and Bluetooth
(Edited: 8/31/2009) No Bluetooth! My hypothesis Bad move by bluetooth and the indicator LED on the laptop. Sorry …
9. Finger Multi / touchpad gesture, like iPhone
10. Very usable keyboard
11. Fans and hard drives
12. Not get hot like my other netbook
13. Great speakers!
14. The Centrino architecture seems to be faster in response network compare with Atom-based netbook
15. Inexpensive for laptops and offer all the features
16. (Added on 8/29/2009) HDD 250G Wide
17. (Added on 8/29/2009) Free upgrade to Windows 7 from Acer. Nice! (However, it is somewhat ‘difficult to record with Chrome. I had to use IE. They may have solved the problem though …)
18. (Added on 8/29/2009) The lid opens wider (deeper?) That my netbook. This is a kind of important to me, using my lap.
Cons (I do not really care for these disadvantages, but here they are)
1. View. I like me XP
2. Shiny LCD screen is too reflective. This can only be me.
3. HD footage from Vimeo and YouTube are some ’slow (not because of the bandwidth of the network. It’s more like CPU power is not enough for Flash-based HD movies.
(Added on 8/29/2009) Even if the films are in the cache all the way, the CPU reaches 100% with Flash-based HD movies. SD movies are just fine. I kind of look better with this Flash movie HD my laptop netbook Atom though.
4. All applications preinstalled that I removed.
5. My wish for the design laptop to be a bit ‘as the MacBook or HP Mini series.
6. I thought the CPU was Hyper-Threading, as Atom. Task Manager shows a single thread. I know it’s “only”, but atoms showed two threads.
(Added on 8/29/2009) The CPU has HT (Hyper-Threading). I had some wrong info there. Even without the HT, this makes it very portable little faster than my netbook Atom.
Although I listed the other hand, are much less items that I do not want. Of course, not running like Intel i7 CPU-based desktop. However, for the size and ease of use, this is a sample of all laptops and desktops that I have ever owned. I will use the i7 desktop video and photo editing. Which may be only 5% of all my computer usage. The remaining 95% of the tasks can be done with this notebook small for me. I can not speak of the length yet, but seems to be well built. However, this is a great laptop with very reasonable price tag!
(Added on 8/29/2009) Some usual stuff I’ve done to make the laptop even better.
1. Usual tune up how to disable Vista Aero and other graphic intensive functions.
2. Removed some pre-installed applications, mainly Office and test anti-virus software.
3. Deactivated start up unused programs
(Added on 8/30/2009) Tests
1. HDMI output for HD TV
1080p resolution worked perfectly including the sound configuration is not much. Resolution 1080 gives all too small to read for my setup. I switched to 720p. The TV does not adjust automatically, so I had to adjust its size using the Intel TV Wizard (This application can not be used with dual monitor configuration. Transition to digital TV-only mode allows.). I adjusted through the application to 720p. The app works, but the screen is refreshed each time the button adjustment has been clicked, I had to press the adjustment very slowly and with patience. When I clicked too fast, the application has frozen with 100% CPU for a long time like 10 min. I had to reboot. Other than that everything worked perfectly!
2. Web cam and digital microphone using Skype
I wanted a small laptop with webcam, so you can put next to my child and her show with my parents in Japan via Skype. My other netbook work, but in situations of low light, the video was so dark they could only see the white eyes. Mic was also giving them echo. When I tried with this laptop, it was day and night literary. This notebook webcam is optimized for low light conditions. They could clearly see my baby. The microphone is clear and no echo. The only minor problem is that the picture is a bit white colored with the default setting. My wife thought I was smoking … haha. I had to change a bit ‘in config. However, the webcam and microphone worked well for Skype. FYI: It will not work as high-resolution webcam, after market, but the built-in webcam meets my needs very well.
By Jack (Boston, MA)
This notebook is one of those cases where you say to yourself, “Wow, is as good as I expected, and much more.”
I avoided buying a netbook because of low resolution and poor performance prevents me from multi-tab web browsing, not to mention smooth scrolling with Office documents. When I saw this notebook, I was very excited because it is something that the older generation of netbooks are lacking:
- Good resolution (1366×768)
- Decent performance
- The battery life even better (6 hours)
Except, actually exceeded my expectations.
LCD: Very strong, and very bright. I am surprised that Acer can squeeze in a 1366×768 screen of 11.6 inches, and still keep a clear and defined. It ‘very easy to view, and I do not feel any different from the view of my old 14-inch LCD.
Performance: In terms of word processing, web browsing and software installation was smooth as my old laptop dual-core. This notebook has upgraded the CPU and chipset of the previous generation of netbooks, which contributes to the performance I am seeing.
Keyboard / touchpad: It’s full size keyboard, and is convenient for the type. I’m still trying to get used to some of the main positions, and the lack of home / end buttons. But it is certainly worse than my laptop keyboard others. Acer has also learned the lesson from Aspire 751h, so that the touchpad is centered by touch-typing on the keyboard, and has two buttons. However, the board touchpad is difficult to distinguish.
Battery: From what I read, one hours Acer Asus is generally less than an hour. This notebook has proven me wrong. Run in the high performance and still gives me about 6 hours of battery life. Running corporate VPN and Remote Desktop seems to reduce to about 5 hours.
Size: Although slightly larger than the previous-gen netbooks do not think it is more cumbersome. At 3 pounds, is very light, but may still be losing weight.
Temperature: not much warmer, you can use on your lap all day.
Other Pro: 250 GB HDD, 2 GB RAM, 1 Gb LAN, 802.11n, webcam, microphone, no-latch lid
Cons:
- No separate Home / End buttons. Unfortunately I think that most netbooks make this sacrifice.
- Charging is slow (I estimate about 4 hours). The downside, the charger is small and light.
- Still requires a fan to dissipate heat, though quiet.
- Other: no bluetooth
As I said, the moment I started using it, all I could say was “Wow.” I could not believe Acer could come up with something that overshadows Asus (and the rest of the computer industry). For all the laptops I have owned (5), none of them impressed me as this one does.
Update 2009/09/07:
I went on a business trip right after you bought this laptop. E ‘proved to be very mobile. I load the laptop overnight, and bring it to work with me in the morning, without the charger. The keyboard feels very natural, and the overall work is smooth sailing.
At night I use this laptop to play game demos and watching some videos (I had the foresight to snatch a few ISO). DVD greatest game, but there was no one who does not play smoothly, so I guess that depends on the DVD encoding.
Overall love this laptop portability. The battery ensures that the laptop is always ready when I need to use it.