Acer Aspire One D270 up for grabs on Amazon

The Acer Aspire One D270 is one of the newest entries in Acer’s line of affordable 10 inch netbooks and one of the first in the series to come with the brand new Cedar Trail platform. After the frenzy we had during CES just a couple of days ago (make sure to check out the Latest News section on the website for our live coverage of the event, including many, many hands on video previews), it was time for some of the devices presented to start popping around on retail websites.

Netbooknews.it informs us that the Acer Aspire One D270 is available for preorder on Amazon, for US customers, for as low as 279 bucks. Sounds quite exciting, but you might lose some of that oomph if you’ll hear that the D270 is pretty much identical to the water drop designed Acer Aspire netbooks that we had last year, so in terms of design it’s pretty much a blast from the past.

The truly exciting novelty is under the hood, where the netbook hosts a brand new, Cedar Trail dual core processor, namely the slower N2600, running at 1.66 GHZ, while versions packing the superior N2800, clocked at 1.86 GHZ, seem not to be yet available. Actually, the entire netbook seems very entry level, as it comes with only 1 GB of RAM and a slow, 320 GB HDD.

There’s no USB 3.0 or HDMI ports, features we were hoping (OK, maybe mainly dreaming) that will become standard on Cedar Trail powered netbooks. After all, if you have a CPU able to decode HD videos, you’d like to be able to connect the netbook to an HD TV, and not settle for rusty VGA connectivity, right?

Same bodywork, different guts- the D270 packs Cedar Trail hardware

Anyway, D270’s set up is rounded up by 3 USB 2.0 ports, a 1024 x 600 10 inch screen, a battery said to go on a single charge for about 8 hours and Windows 7 Starter, while color versions include seasoned classics like Aquamarine, Burgundy Red, Espresso Black and Seashell White.

Probably Acer will offer better equipped versions of this new netbook later on, but expect to pay over 300 bucks for those, as this model is probably thrown into the wild more to tease Cedar Trail enthusiasts that might just jump on the first Acer labeled machine with a Cedar Trail core.

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