Liliputing, June 2009

When last we spoke, I promised to report back on the Acer Aspire One D250 after spending a week lugging it around downtown Los Angeles. Let me tell you, after just the first day I was pretty much ready to declare this purchase one of the smartest in recent memory. Through a day of press conferences scattered throughout downtown L.A., I walked about five and a half miles with this thing nestled in a shoulder bag…and I barely even noticed it was there.
But it’s not just the weight that convinced me I’d made the right choice. It’s the battery life. Oh yes, the battery life. But I’m getting ahead of myself…

(So as not to hijack traffic from a live and monetized site, I’ll point you to the original source rather than reproducing the review here. If for some reason that link should stop working, though, you can refer to this PDF for a somewhat uglified version of the full review as published.)