Acer Aspire one for emulation?

[tmc]

Would the Acer aspire one (windows XP,120gb HD and 1GB Ram version) be ok to run most emulation smoothly upto N64?

I've had no experience of using a netbook before and was thinking of it as a semi-portable retro-gaming machine and ditching my 1.5 PSP for it. However i'm very unsure as to whether netbooks are only designed for light web browsing etc?

could somebody please help advise me if this netbook would be suitable for the following emulators:

NES
SMS
SNES
Genesis
N64
SCUMMVM
Amiga
MAME
CPS1/CPS2

Many thanks.

[UK Collector]

I should think you will be fine for most of those, but the specs you give are very vague. Anything 16-bit or under i should think that will be perfect. Over that, it depends on the specs (but most should be fine) and the current emulation standards (although most are fine, for some reason amiga sticks out as being difficult??? probably wrong. But to be honest the worst thing about emulation on that system would probably be the method of control. Sort out the right control (maybe USB versions of the real controllers) and you SHOULD (no guarantees, YMMV) be OK.

[Poofta!]

should be fine. i remember emulating ps1 on my pc like 5-6 years ago. which couldnt have been THAT powerful. so i think you'll be fine. just make sure you get a 360 wired pad for a controller

[jupitersj]

Ehhhh....the two acer aspire one notebooks are a pain to get exact specs on; I tried some searching for you.

It seems it's pretty sure they use

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Graphics-Media-Accelerator-950.2177.0.html

that for the videocard.

With those specs I'd say you'll be fine for everything you listed except maybe very few specific arcade games....

AAO uses an intel atom 1.6ghz proccessor but I haven't kept up mobile chips to know what core(s) it resembles.

[ScourDX]

I picked up AAO and it works fine with emulation. I was able to play PC games as well like

- Max Payne 1 & 2
- Hitman 1 & 2
- Flatout 2
- Quake 3
- Jedi Academy
- Morrowind
- Neverwinter Nights
- Farcry
- GTA Vice city
- GTA San Andreas

It cannot run the lastest and the greatest games due to graphic card limitation, but it can still run games 2005 or older. Some people claim they got Crysis running on AAO. Check this website (http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2201) for more AAO game compatible list.

[Poofta!]

I picked up AAO and it works fine with emulation. I was able to play PC games as well like

- Max Payne 1 & 2
- Hitman 1 & 2
- Flatout 2
- Quake 3
- Jedi Academy
- Morrowind
- Neverwinter Nights
- Farcry
- GTA Vice city
- GTA San Andreas

It cannot run the lastest and the greatest games due to graphic card limitation, but it can still run games 2005 or older. Some people claim they got Crysis running on AAO. Check this website (http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2201) for more AAO game compatible list.


wow my 1.7 GHz centrino laptop from '03-04 couldnt run GTA. lol.

[kedawa]

I would just get a Pandora system, assuming it actually gets released this year.