The netbook, Acer Aspire One D250 provides buying satisfaction for its economic price range, within $30. Particularly for touring business people, this thin and light netbook is sufficiently power packed to do all that shouldered by a secretary. It is versatile as regards to the connectivity, and multimedia section is It is designed sensibly and a reliable companion.

• The design- The netbook is quite thin piece at 1.0 inch thickness, its width and depth go for 10.2 inches and 7.2 inches respectively. The weight is 1.1 kg for three-cell version and 1.27kg for six-cell battery. Though there is not much in the design to make it a swanky model, beautifully brushed aluminum palm rest speaks of a taste. Beside memory card slot, power jack, there are two USB ports on the right side. For headphone and microphone, VGA out put and Ethernet jack, connections the USB port is housed on left side.
• The keyboard and touch pad – It is though constricted keyboard, he shift keys is full sized. It is easily a touch-n-type keyboard, except for a few keys that give a bit clumsy feeling to press, specially the ones around the periphery. The ‘virtual scrolling’ is very good, needing just moving finger in circle around the touchpad. The mouse button is quite immobile type is immobile in the middle and doesn’t give flexible movements. Touchpad is, however, quite small and makes it difficult to use for limited finger movements.
• The display – Everything is to be managed within small 10.1 inches LED backlit screen of 1024x 600 resolution. On the image front, the things are bright and readable from wide angle. In the multimedia department, it is weak as the video is slow and wavy; microphone sensitivity appear abruptly dropping after certain distance, which should be gradual.

The featured inputs on this machine are composed of Intel Atom CPU with 1600 MHz speed. Windows XP Home makes its Operating System. Hard disk is of 160 GB capacity while the RAM goes for 1024 MB. It gives a value for the price with reasonable performance for computing and connectivity for communication.