Seeing a high end brand labeled on products outside of their market usually means you paid more for that cologne or set of luggage…in other words nothing of value was added. This changes things a bit.

The Acer Ferrari One Netbook switches things up by piling on some spirited hardware into an extremely tiny and portable system. HardwareZone takes it for a test drive:

In terms of performance, we could find no fault with the system. AMD’s newer Congo platform does deliver much better performance compared to the older Yukon platform, while handily beating the Intel Atom yet again. While it still loses out to Intel’s CULV processor based platform, it’s still a pretty decent effort on AMD’s part. Battery life wise, the Acer Ferrari One managed to secure a respectable uptime of 175 minutes, though power consumption at (much higher than either of Intel’s solutions) remained somewhat of a weakness of the platform.

For those with an even greater need for speed the system comes prepped with an ATI XGP (external graphics port) that will allow you to connect an even more powerful graphics card to the machine.