The Acer Aspire One Happy 2 review

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Acer always seems to bring something new with their netbooks, and it's no different this time around with the Acer Aspire One Happy 2 netbook. This unit comes with a distinctively eye catching colour choice, features the Intel Atom N570 processor and has a dual boot feature allowing the user to boot either to the Windows 7 Starter edition or Android 2.3.1 OS - booting to the latter OS would be a useful option when you want to quickly perform a basic task, such as Web browsing, without having to go through the longer process of having to wait for the Windows OS to start up to access the required functionality.

Design

The Acer Aspire One Happy 2 model comes in four 'fruity' colours, namely Banana Cream, Strawberry Yoghurt, Blueberry Shake and Papaya Milk - one could be forgiven for thinking that Acer had a tie up with some fruit juice manufacturer for releasing this netbook. The review unit I received had the glossy Papaya Milk shading, which covers the back-lid, the power button and the touchpad and mouse button, with the rest of the netbook retaining a white matte finish - the screen bezel had a white glossy finish. As is to be expected, the glossy areas do attract a lot of smudges and finger prints - but on the sections coloured in Papaya Milk, the shading does offset the visibility of these smudges to an extent from certain viewing angles. Also, just like the Acer Aspire One 722 netbook that we had reviewed earlier, this netbook also features the attractive droplet design on its backlid.

The power button is located at the top left corner right under the left hinge. Just like the Acer Aspire One 722 unit, this netbook's central section at the rear of the chassis - the area in between the two hinges - is slightly elevated and, as with the screen bezel, has a surface with a white glossy coating.

Features

The AO Happy 2's chassis is smooth-edged around the edges and corners and weighs in at 1.25 kg. While the netbook has a plastic finish, it has an overall good build quality. There was no noticeable flex on the main chassis body. Under a bout of intense typing, there was some slight flex felt on the keyboard area: although, not to that large an extent as what was seen on the Acer One Aspire 722. This shouldn’t be taken as a downside, as when typing normally you don’t notice any flex on the keyboard area.

There is a webcam located at the top central section of the screen bezel. The speakers on the netbook are positioned along the left, central and right side of the frontal base.

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Performance

The Acer Aspire One Happy 2 netbook recorded a score of 32 on the Worldbench 6 benchmark. Given this score, the AO Happy 2 netbook should be able to get you through handling daily activities such as Web browsing, basic productivity work and listening to music without any issues. During synthetic testing, the netbook's hard disk recorded an average read speed of 64.3 MB/s and the netbook recorded a PC Mark 7 score of 604.

While the Happy 2 unit did have problems handling 720p and 1080p videos, this should not be considered a major drawback to this unit given its intended usage. Playing YouTube videos, as well as streaming 480p videos, should proceed without any hiccups.

The AO Happy 2's speaker output levels are appropriate from a personal entertainment point of view - the overall sound is clear and pretty loud, but the bass levels are, as expected, low. Listening through a headphone would be the best option.

During testing, the Aspire One Happy 2 did tend to heat up, although not to that high an extent as the AO 722. You notice the heat while touching the left base of the laptop that is adjacent to the exhaust vent - You don’t feel this heat on the palmrest area. The netbook gives a better account of itself in the system noise levels area - it was barely audible during operation.

The laptop's six-cell battery lasted for three hours and forty three minutes through one of our battery tests, at high performance mode, and having the wireless internet mode enabled. This result is an expected statistic - it was slightly higher than the battery result clocked by the AO 722, which stood around some 3 hours and 9 minutes. Having said that, you should be able to extract around 5-6 plus hours out of the AO Happy 2's battery - at a conservative power scheme - for doing lighter every-day work such as browsing the web and listening to music.