Aspire One D150

I own the black one. The color of the keyboard frame is metallic silver, very cool. There are other color beside black, red, white, dan blue. But I think the black is the best of all (according to the person sell it and I agree with him). I use this notebook for browsing the Internet mostly, typing and editing photo using Photoshop. Yes, you can use Photoshop with it. Although the view is not very nice, but I’m not complaining. After all, it’s a netbook, it has small screen. It’s a powerful stuff. I also use InDesign with this netbook. Once again, the view is very limited, especially when I view my page in full page.

Unfortunately, it came with Microsoft XP Home Edition. I prefer the Professional Edition instead. The Home Edition has limited features rather than the Professional Edition. I have to download the Tweaking Tools from Microsoft website to be able to configure things. Ok, enough about the operating system, I want to tell about Aspire One D150, not XP Home. Another thing to mention, since I bought it, I’ve never brought it outside my house except to J-Co at Mall Galaxy. I wanted to try the WiFi connection there and testing my netbook. The WiFi feature run smoothly.
The are lots of feature came along with this cute small thing. The Bluetooth is ok. I tried to transfer file from my Sony Ericsson using Bluetooth to this netbook, and the result is fine. You cannot demand the connection using Bluetooth to be as fast as using USB though. Just press the button at the upper left corner of this netbook to turn the Bluetooth.

I put SD card into the card reader slot and have never took it off from there except when I need to transfer the data to my PC. There are three USB port, one on the left, and two on the right. I use the left one for my 3G modem, Sierra 881u, and use one one the right for my mouse’s nano receiver. I put my flash disk or my external hard drive into the other USB port on the right.

Ok, before I forget to mention. I need to tell you about the WiFi, it started automatically when you login, meaning it turns on automatically. There is a light indicator that will be blinking, showing that the WiFi is turning on. I just don’t like this WiFi’s toggle button. The other thing that I don’t really like is the button at the touch pad. But, it doesn’t bother me again after I have had my mouse, the VX Nano.

About the keyboard, I still think it rather too small for my fingers. But, hey, it’s a netbook, what do you expect? An ordinary size keyboard?

This netbook came with 6 cells battery. Nice, I can browsing for about 7 hours using WiFi, and about 5 hours when I use my 3G modem (it consumes power to since I have to stick it into one of the USB port).

Overall, I love it. The design is great, the performance is great, the hardisk space is big enough, 160GB, the RAM is ok, 1GB, and not to mention the build-in webcam and microphone. Cool stuff.