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5.0 stars
"Stylish design & great specs put this at the top"
Pros: HP have used every last inch of the wide body to fit in an incredibly useable keyboard and a beautiful, eye popping screen. Not only does it look professional but it is solidly built. And its still so portable!
Cons: Slightly less generous Hard Disc capacity but still plenty big enough for most. Also the power brick could be a little more attractive to match the beauty of the main unit
Summary: After looking at about ten of these netbooks all in a line in an electrical store the one that stood out from the rest was the Mini 1000. Its small, stylish and so useable.
I must admit that, coming from the Mac world, design is important to me. And this one is on the same level as Apple's designs. I thought I would never consider another Windows machine, but since Mac haven't yet got anything smaller than a 13" Macbook which weighs about twice as much as the HP Mini ... and costs 3 times the price..... I decided to take the plunge! For most things like surfing, email and so on there will not be much difference. And it comes with XP which is quite stable after all these years... I did try the iPhone for surfing in the coffee shops but its really not big enough screen wise for more than a few minutes of browsing or to look up the weather forecast. And I know I wont bother to carry a 5lb lump around... Its also good to have something like this to take on trips ...
Since I will be watching movies on it decent sound was important and this one is a stunner with high quality stereo speakers.
The actual specs are nearly all the same for the current bunch of netbooks. I researched all of them.... read all the reviews and tried them all out in the store. But this is the one I liked the best. All seem to have the same Intel processor and the same graphics chips etc. Some have a bit more memory and some have extra expansion slots. Some have less.
But this one gives me everything I could ever want in a most attractive package... and covers up the bits I never use (like the wired ethernet socket.....).
The only downside that I can see is the slightly smaller hard disc ... but then again I will never have so much data on this thing. And the power brick could have been more stylish to match the computer (Apple win on this type of thing).
