HP has barely started selling the 10″ Intel Atom-powered HP Mini 2140, and already there are some updated options available to new buyers this week. They’ve added SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 as an operating system option – we knew back when they were announced … Read more
James Kendrick over at jkOnTheRun has had success in installing the Windows 7 public beta on the 10″ Intel Atom-based HP Mini 2140. The Mini 2140 is HP’s “business” or “professional” netbook (the HP Mini 1000 is their consumer product). Some have had an issue … Read more
lewdvig, a NotebookReview.com contributor, has put together a comprehensive review of the Intel Atom-powered 8.9″ HP Mini 1110NR. It’s runing Hewlett-Packard’s HP Mobile Internet UI, which is based on Ubuntu Linux (and apparently Gnome), and has an 8GB Solid State Drive (SSD) for storage. Specifications … Read more
Doug over at CrunchGear has written a commentary about the state of netbooks and display resolutions. It’s more of a plea to netbook makers, and I agree completely. We’ve reached a point where outside of a new platform (NVIDIA Ion) or new CPUs (dual-cores), there’s … Read more
CNET has published their review of the new 10.1″ HP Mini 2140. They gave it high marks for the keyboard, construction (metal), and for the full-size ExpressCard/54 slot. Many manufacturers would be tempted with an ExpressCard/34 slot, were they to even add a slot. The … Read more