Acer Aspire One 571 - HD and Blu-Ray

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Physically, the Aspire One 571 seems to be just another model in Acer's netbook line. It even has a similar chassis to those used on the D150/D250 series. Internally, it has the same specs. Except for a few but significant additions - the screen is still 10.1" but it has a 1280x720 16:9 resolution. And while the Atom N280 still cannot reliably decode H.264 or HD video at that resolution, it's supported by the Quartics Q1721 Multimedia Coprocessor. It does accelerate decoding and encoding of H.264 and other codecs, and also adds hardware scaling and filtering. In addition, it has a Vmedia drive, which uses tiny Blu-Ray discs, protected in a plastic cartridge, with a diameter of only 32mm (Blu-Ray: 120mm) and a capacity of 1GB.