Low Cost Netbook Review - HP Mini 2140 - A Great Market Value For Sale

HP is absolutely putting a lot of accomplishment to be the no 1 low amount net book provider. Thanks to the currently booming net book market. At the contempo CES in Las Vegas, HP apparent their latest accession to the abundant net book arena.
Yes. HP appear that their latest HP Mini 2140 archetypal will be fabricated accessible actual soon. Keeping accurate with their antecedent model, HP Mini 2133, the new 2140 is congenital on the aforementioned actual as the 2133. That agency the 2140 will aswell be congenital on a solid magnesium admixture chassis, as with the earlier 2133.
Cool. None of the chiffon artificial stuff. Personally, I like it bigger this way. With netbooks accepting baby in size, they are added decumbent to concrete abuse. This is abnormally accurate if you backpack them about with you in your circadian travels. As such, a added athletic and able body actual is consistently a acceptable improvement.
The alone downside to the able and athletic body is its' weight. It absolutely weights a lot added than the added net books congenital on them chiffon artificial material. The 2140 assemblage weighs about 3.0 pounds with abounding accessories. That makes it the heaviest netbook around. Oh well, you can't win them all, I guess.
The HP Mini 2140 aswell sports apparently the bigger keyboard in the low amount net book range. At 92% of a accepted keyboard, you would absolutely be able to acclimate bound to the keyboard. It even has a abounding sized appropriate about-face key amid appropriate beneath the access key. Nothing awkward about the keyboard.
The keys are aswell adequate with HP Durakeys. HP DuraKeys? Its a bright blanket that protects the accomplishment and printed characters on the keys. The keyboard will be attending new even afterwards years of abundant typing.
I do, however, accept a beef with the abrasion pad, though. Somehow, accepting the abrasion buttons on either abandon of the abrasion pad absolutely doesn't applesauce with me. I would accept admired it bigger if they had absitively to put the abrasion buttons at the basal as with a accustomed abrasion pad.
I've consistently been somewhat balked that these net books can alone affectation to a max resolution if 1024x600. To those who like to accept added pixels in their display, the HP Mini 2140 assemblage has got two affectation modes - 1024x576 and 1366x768. Odd resolutions? Yes. They are a bit odd. I anticipate HP absitively to accomplish the affectation fit in a 16:9 aspect ratio. Why? To accommodate to HDTV accepted perhaps?
Following are the accouterments blueprint for the HP Mini 2140:
CPU: Intel Atom Processor N270 (1.60 GHz, 512 KB L2 cache, 533 MHz FSB)
Chipset: Mobile Intel® 945GSE Express
Memory: 1 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM (Max 2GB)
Hard Drive: 160GB 5400/7200 rpm SATA; 80GB Solid State Drive
Display: 10.1-inch askew HP Illumi-Lite LED SD; 10.1-inch askew Illumi-Lite LED HD
Graphics: Mobile Intel GMA950
Integrated Camera: VGA Camera
Ports: 2 USB 2.0; 1 mic in; 1 headphone/line-out; 1 VGA out; 1 RJ-45
Slots: 1 Express Card/54; 1 defended digital
Audio: Top Definition Audio, stereo speakers
Networking: Marvell Ethernet Integrated Controller (10/100/1000)
Wireless: Broadcom 802.11a/b/g/draft-n; Broadcom 802.11b/g; HP Integrated Module with Bluetooth 2.0 Wireless Technology
Battery: 3-cell (28 WHr) top accommodation Lithium-Ion; 6-cell (55 WHr) top accommodation Lithium-Ion.
What else? That's basically the basis of it. I'd say the capital account of accepting this new HP Mini 2140 would be the bigger awning resolution. No amount how odd the affectation resolution is, 1366x768 is absolutely a lot bigger than just 1024x600 which is like the de facto accepted for netbook awning resolution.
Nothing abundant abstracted the accepted netbooks from one another. For the a lot of part, they are all created about according back they are mostly congenital on the aforementioned Intel Atom chipsets. This new HP Mini 2140 tries to differentiate itself from the blow by the agency of the affectation resolution. So, if you wish something different, this HP 2140 assemblage is absolutely account searching at.