The much awaited and anticipated netbook is finally announced by the Acer. The company is going to launch its new 10 inch Aspire One in February 2009. The new netbook is expected to feature awesome computing capabilities, stupendous styling and great functionality, all at a price of £299.

The 10 inch Acer Aspire One will sport some familiar tech specs. It is built around 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor. The 10 inch display supports great resolution up to 1,024 x 600 pixels. Apart from this each unit will be powered by a three cell battery and contain 160GB hard disk and 1GB RAM, which is more storage space than most Acer Aspires currently on the market, including the Acer Aspire One A150-AW. There will be no WiMAX initially included in the new Aspire One but the company’s official said that it can be opted as an extra feature later on. Acer will also launch a 3G model very soon that will be independent of carriers. This is good because you can simply slide in any data SIM you have got.

The company also unveiled that the new Acer netbook will be available in four high-gloss colours including white, blue, red and black. The overall finish of the netbook is so good that you just can’t ignore it and move on. The 10 inch Acer will give tough competition to Samsung’s NC10. According to Acer the new Aspire One is 4mm slimmer and much lighter than NC10 as it replaces the six cell battery with the one containing three cells only.

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So far the One Laptop Per Child or OLPC project has been popular in developing nations and a few days back it spread its wings to the developed nations (especially USA) as well via Amazon.com. At Amazon citizens of developed nations were offered the OLPC XO laptop, but for the price of two, so that one can be donated to a child in developing region. The good news is that now the OLPC will be coming to the UK also this December.

According to a listing on Amazon.co.uk, UK citizens will be offered XO laptops via the same scheme. This service will be launched on the 16th of December this year, but consumers can pre-order their laptops. The laptops will cost £275. While this is more than, say, the Acer Aspire One, the purchaser is actually paying for two laptops, one of which is sent to a child in a developing nation. Apart from this they will also have to pay a sum of £50 towards packaging and postage. However this charge is set up by OLPC and not by Amazon.

The OLPC XO laptop offers a variety of applications and a good hardware configuration. The one that will be available on Amazon.co.uk will have 1GB NAND flash storage and 256MB DDR RAM. It will be running on the Linux based Sugar operating system only. Neither the Microsoft version nor the dual boot one will be available as those models are meant for the developing countries only.