Acer Aspire One 571 with Oddball 1.2-inch Optical Drive?

Acer’s low-priced nicely configured Aspire One netbooks have a commanding netbook marketshare. I guess that’s one reason they can take the kind of chances in component choices like the ones for the…

Acer Aspire One 571

Two of the design changes look like winners to me:

– 10.1 inch LCD with a high definition capable (720p) resolution of 1280×720
– They’re also using a Qartics Q1721 Multimedia Coprocessor to make up for the Atom N280 processor which is not designed for high end multimedia use

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Then, there’s this head-scratching component:

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