Android Netbook Acer‘s Aspire One D250 is a net­book but can dual-boot* into Android and Windows 7. The com­pany launched the dual-boot D250 today. But the one weird omis­sion on the Android net­book is that the LCD is not touch-capable. Does Android work well with­out touch? Well, yes: you can use the track­pad or an attached mouse. But is that how you want to work on an Android net­book? Certainly not. You want to inter­act with it as you would a smart­phone: with your fin­ger. *You can’t boot into Windows 7 and you’ll need to select “Switch OS” from Android’s slide-out menu and wait for Windows 7 to boot up.

Specs Here are the quick specs of the dual-boot D250: 1.6GHz Atom N270, 1GB DDR2 RAM, Ethernet, SDHC slot, VGA, USB, 1024 x 600 res­o­lu­tion, small­ish track­pad and keyboard.

VM Please Register Hardware’s James Sherwood got to work with the Aspire One D250 at Acer’s prod­uct launch in cen­tral London on October 14. The Aspire One D250 is not a brand new net­book but Acer has mod­i­fied it to work on both Android and Windows 7 (32-bit). You can see the YouTube video (quite bor­ing actu­ally) that has been set so it is not embed­d­a­ble. The major ben­e­fit of Android is that you have near-instant boot. So what is Windows for? Probably Microsoft Office for when you actu­ally need to get work done. With vir­tu­al­iza­tion all the rage these days, I won­der how long it will be until Android is vir­tu­al­ized via VMWare or Parallels. That would be cool to play around with.

Source:

• “Acer Aspire One D250 Android net­book gets fon­dled and pho­tographed” – Engadget
• “Hands on with Acer’s dual-OS net­book” – Register Hardware
• “PHOTOS: Acer Aspire One D250 with Android” – Pocket-lint