I purchased the Aspire One D250-1610 because of the good reviews on this site and I have not been disappointed. I needed a netbook solely for connectivity....as an extra link to the Internet at home when all the desktops were in use by the kids, or as a way to check my e-mail when traveling, and this little beauty does everything quickly and easily. I was amazed how simple the setup was, and the netbook immediately recognized my home network. The connection is very fast.

I've only had the Aspire for 4 days, but I love it already! It's a great netbook for the price you pay!

Although this unit is priced right, the processing speed is a little slow. I have 2 other computers on my wireless network that run much faster than this unit.

The computer works as advertised. Keep in mind it's a netbook and not an Apple or PC. At one sixth the cost, I feel you get 1/2 of the performance of a conventional computer.

Great little netbook. Fast, lightweight, competetive pricing. Two things I'd like to see improved - the keyboard is cramped and causes a lot of typos. Other models have better spaced keys and a larger touchpad. Also, it comes pre-bundled with McAfee AV which really slows the OS. I removed it and installed a better AV which doesn't impact performance.

I'm so happy with this netbook, the few days that I've been using it, I have not disappointed.

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I am new to laptop computers. I just got the Aspire one D250-1990 by Acer. It charged up very nicely. Seems to work just fine. Battery life is good. Just don't plan plugging a external CD/DVD RW in and expect the battery life to last a long time. I got the Asus SDRW-08D1S-U USB external drive also. It pairs up and looks nice together. I haven't used the burning feature yet, so I can't say much about it at this time. I am using the Cyberlink software that come with the drive. I am used to Nero for all my other computers. I also updated the ram memory to 2GB. Not sure it is needed. Installing software went in fine I don't like Microsoft Works at all. I have a old copy of Microsoft 2000 Office Pro that I put on the Aspire. Works great. A disadvantage I found was when I tried to put a older copy of Adobe CS2 on the machine. I got a message saying that the Video card and monitor wasn't sufficient for CS2. Lucky I had a older copy of CS and it went in Ok and works well This isn't a big time graphics computer. So don't think it is. It will work great for what it is intended for. It came with Windows Xp Home. I didn't want all the little Lite software that comes with it already installed.

Please don't take the following the wrong way. I went to my local computer shop to buy this one. Only reason was, if I had a lot of problems, I had someone local to fall back on. Amazon is a class act. I have used them for years and had no complaints with them. Just a little hesitant this time for the first time around.

The only con is the small size of the screen. I use a 24 inch wide screen on my other computers. Just not used to the small size. You can change the type size on the internet, and it works well on that. I hope you like it as much as I do.