14 DAY TRIAL // The recent CES 2012 fair has witnessed the arrival of an important number of Intel Cedar Trail-powered netbooks, and some of these have already been listed by online retailers, including Acer’s Aspire One AOD270, which has just popped up on Amazon.
Acer’s creation doesn’t differ all that much from all the other Cedar Trail netbooks introduced so far by Asus and other makers and is based on the same Atom N2600 CPU.
Sporting a dual-core design and a 1.6GHz operating frequency, the chip is paired together with a wimpy 1GB of system memory and a 5,400RPM hard drive delivering 320GB of storage space.
Just as the rest of its hardware configuration, the 10.1-inch LED backlit display used by the Aspire One AOD270 also fails to impress as it sports a low-res 1024x600 pixel panel.
Moving to the connectivity front, we get the usual multi-card reader, Wireless N WiFi and USB 2.0 ports, but also an HDMI output.
The rest of the specs list is completed by a 0.3MP webcam and a 6-cell LiIon battery that Acer says is able to provide users with up to 9 hours of autonomy. The whole system weights 1.3kg (about 2.86 pounds).
The Cedar Trail platform that stands at the base of the AOD270 comprised Intel’s Cedarview processors and the NM10 chipset, basically the same controller used for the previous Pine Trail netbooks.
However, unlike its predecessors, the new Cedarview CPUs are built using the 32nm fabrication process and feature a unified architecture that pairs the two computing cores present with a GPU based on a PowerVR design.
Thanks to this graphics core, the Cedar Trail platform features hardware decoding capabilities for a wide range of HD formats including MPEG2, VC1, AVC, H.264 and Blu-ray 2.0.
The Aspire One AOD270 spotted by liliputing is priced at $284.61 (222 EUR) on Amazon, but no information regarding its shipping date was provided.