HP Mini 2140 Netbook, is the Price Right?
Small Wonder. Big Possibilities.
The HP / Mini 2140 Netbook / KS146UT#ABA is the ideal companion PC for the highly mobile professional, this fully functional HP Mini comes with all the features to keep you ultra-productive while staying ultra-mobile.
Stay connected where you need to work with integrated Wi-Fi Certified WLAN and optional Bluetooth wireless technologies. Access the Internet, email, IM, or chat—at school, at home or at your favorite hotspots.
The HP 2140 Mini Notebook features 2 GB of RAM and a 160 GB hard drive.
Ecomelectronics is asking for $546.67. Worth it? (…Read Some More…)
Taking a Look at the Toshiba mini NB205 – A Netbook Review
Netbooks, or mini laptops, are coming down on the mobile consumer like rain. They are beginning to be manufactured on the scale of cell phones. For the sake of this dear Earth, I hope there’s a recycling program available for these mini’s as well. The Toshiba Mini NB205 is a purse computer that is selling at the $400 mark. However, the performance doesn’t compete well with other netbooks product lines that have already been well established in the market. This mini, because of its price, will surely not do for Toshiba what the Palm Pre did for Palm. For $400, more is expected but that depends on the value of your dollar in relation to the performance and your love for Toshiba.
Compliments: The design stands out from the rest; Touch pad is spacious; Can be charged by USB when off; Long battery life – 8.5 hours; Keyboard; Easy to Upgrade
Complaints: Speakers make you think you’re losing your hearing; Boots as fast as a slug; Battery pack is a bit bulky; Price (…Read Some More…)
Averatec Gives us Their Aluminum N3400 Netbook for $799
Inside the Aluminum N3400 is a 2.16GHz Intel Pentium Dual Core T3400 processor and 3GB in RAM. The hard drive is 250GB SATA. There is also Bluetooth and an Intel GMA X4500HD graphics chip. The WXGA screen is 13.3″. It comes with Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium for the OS, a 1.3 megapixel webcam and microphone, external USB Super-Multi 8X dual-layer DVD/CD reader and burner, and 802.11n wireless.
Laptop Drives Reach 1TB in Hard Drive Storage
Laptop hard drive memory has just been raised from 500GB to 1TB, thanks to 333GB per platter technology and Western Digital with their release of the Scorpio Blue 1TB and Scorpio Blue 750GB. The largest desktop currently stores 2TB with a 3.5-inch drive compared to 2.5 inches for a laptop drive. This new drive is 3mm thicker than other laptop drives with their normal thickness of 9.5mm. Both Scorpios come with 8MB of buffer memory and rotate at 5,200rpm.
High capacity storage isn’t all that this drive has to offer. Expect quiet computing with WhisperDrive, Protects against clumsiness with ShockGuard, and the recording heads are ensured not to touch the disk surface with SecurePark.
The Velocity NoteMagix M10, Customized to Suit
Do you want your netbook in red or black? You want a 2048MB Corsair PC5300 DR2 SODIMM (2×1024) memory or, minus $20 off the price, do you prefer it to be 1GB DDR2 SODIMM (1 x GB)? What about the mobile hard drive? With the Velocity NoteMagix M10 Customized Edition, you have plenty feature choices of which to add to a price of $349 that a standard, and bar naked, NoteMagix M10 will sell for and customize it to a price of up to $1313 when everything is added.
