HP Mini 110 vs. HP Mini 1000 vs. Samsung NC10; Mini 1101 specs

HP moves forward slowly in the market of netbooks but, its move is steady and continual. I can say that HP has released least netbooks compared to Asus and Acer and MSI. Well, So far its netbooks have been bundled up with very good and bad features such as stellar keyboard and sturdy fashionable chassis as well as overly glossy screens, sluggish hard drive and lack of VGA port meanwhile costing more than their counterparts in the market.

HP has unveiled its two upcoming Mini 110 for consumer- oriented (and the Linux- based Mini 110 Mi) and Mini 1101 for corporate- oriented.

The very first feature of Mini 110 and Mini 1101 that takes attention is their starting price. Compared to their predecessors, these two upcoming netbooks offer more aggressive starting price. Starting at $279 for the Linux-based Mini 110 Mi, $330 for the XP-based Mini 110 and Mini 1101 is a big improvement about HP netbooks.

The second feature that takes the attention immediately is design and the chunky way it looks. Mini 110 is not as thin and lightweight as its predecessor. The new netbook is 0.2 pound heavier with the (weight of 2.6 lbs) and 0.3 inches thicker (with the depth of 1.3inches) than its predecessor.

Confidently, HP has made a better revamped version of Mini 1000, He has kept the good side of the Mini 1000 and has tried to turn the bad sides or weak features to the good ones.

Here you will learn about the differences between Mini 1000 and Mini 110, and comparison between their benchmark results.

One of the important contenders of Mini 1000 and of course upcoming Mini 110 is Samsung NC10 netbook. Here you will learn about their differences and the comparison between their benchmark result to get better idea about the improved performance that Mini 110 offers upon its predecessor and its major rival.

I have compiled all the benchmark results and figures from reviews done by Laptop Magazine.

HP Mini 1101 netbook:

This mode meant business users and it is very customizable. It can be available preinstalled with one of Windows XP Home, XP Pro, or Vista and a choice for freeDOS if you are interested in installing it on your netbook by yourself. This netbook offers options for a 32GB SSD or 160GB or 250GB hard disk, and EV-DO/HSPA mobile broadband modem. The HP Mini 1101 will be available from tomorrow- June 1st with starting from $329.

HP Mini 110 vs. Mini 1000:

Cnet and Laptop Magazine have reviewed Mini 110 and compared it with Mini 1000. Here I have compiled the Pros and Cons were mentioned by these two reviews here all together.

(Pros):

Price: the starting price of Mini 110 is more budget- friendly than the starting price of Mini 1000, meanwhile offering better features.

Design: although the black Mini 1000 looks is slightly thinner and ligher than Mini 110, the nice swirl imprint design on lid of Mini 110 looks very attractive and it also hides the finger tips ( unlike the glossy finish of Mini 1000). Mini 110 is more comfortable to use because “it sits a little higher in back when placed on a desk”. Mini 110 is available in pearl white and fashionable pink, as well.

Keyboard: Mini 110 inherits the stellar spacious 92% keyboard of Mini 1000. There is a row of a dedicated function keys placed at the top pf the keyboard. Also the new netbook comes with the same awkward vertical touchpad buttons.

Performance: Mini 110 comes with the typical CPU and RAM available on majority of netbooks (1.6GHz Atom CPU and 1GB of memory). But, it offered faster spinning 160GB HDD with 5400 rpm that causes faster performance compared to Mini 1000.

Features: unlike Mini 1000, an additional USB port and VGA port are available on Mini 110. So, this netbook comes with 3 USB ports, a VGA out and 5-in-1 media card reader and Lan port.

Display:If you suffered from the overly glossy 10.1-inch screen settled on Mini 1000, HP happily has removed this display and has used the traditional LED Matte antiglare 10.1-inch display but with the same 1,024x576 resolution. Promisingly, an option for high definition display with 1366 x 768 resolution will be available from July 8^th. This option will only add $30 to the basic price.

Video Play back: an additional $30 Crystal HD Enhanced Video Accelerator choice, will come soon in July and will allow users to watch 1080p video an external display.

Heat: definitely Mini 110 is much cooler than Mini 1000

Audio: The speakers are impressively laud and apparently better than the one used in Mini 1000.

- Choices or options for 32GB SSD, a mobile broadband for extra $125. The Linux-based Mini 110 Mi starts from cheaper price of $280 and can be configured with up to 1GB of RAM and 160GB HDD.

(Cons):

- Lack of HDMI port for playing HD movies on an external display

Software: the Syncables software is difficult to use. This software is supposed to help out the user to “connect different machines on your local network, allowing you to easily share documents, photos, video, and music, and even sync Outlook and Thunderbird e-mail accounts. The program even claims to work on Windows, Mac, and Linux systems.”

Battery: 3-cell battery is used on Mini 110 as default and it only lasts for 2 hours and 45 minutes which is really short for a netbook. In the market the average battery is not less than 3 hours. However, Soon Mini 110 will offer a choice of 6-cell battery adding $40 to the basic price to prolong about 5 hours and half which is yet short compared to Eee PC 1008HA and 1005HA, Samsung NC10 etc.

- “This video accelerator won’t help you transcode video faster or play mainstream 3D games.”

Benchmark results:

-Boot time: Mini 110 boots up for 45 sec while Mini 1000 is more sluggish and its boot time is about 64 sec.

-PCMark05 test: Mini 110 scored 1578 while Mini 1000 scored 1370

- laptop transfer test: Mini 10 recorded a rate of 14.6 MBps ( lasting about 5 minutes) for coping a 4.97GB folder of mixed media and Mini 1000 scored a rate of 9.1 MBps that lasted for 9 minutes and 21 sec.

Mini 110 vs. Samsung NC10:

I am comparing the Samsung NC10 with the price tag of $420 (at Newegg) and feature set of 10.2-inch antiglare Led display, 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 160GB HDD with 5400 rpm, 6-cell battery, 3USB port, VGA out, 3-in-1 media card reader, 2.8 lbs of weight, 1.19-inch thickness, Bluetooth, and 93% keyboard, .

Comparisons:

Price: Samsung NC10 is some more expensive than Mini 110 even by considering adding the two features of 6-cell battery and Bluetooth to Mini 110. If we add the $40 extra for 6-cell battery to Mini 110 the price will jump only to $370. ( however I think NC10 deserves this price).

Design: Mini 110 comes with more attractive finish design than NC10. However, NC10 is a thinner netbook. It is natural that NC10 with 6 cell battery is heavier than Mini 110 coming with 3-cell battery.

Keyboard: both laptops have very spacious and comfortable keyboard that the positioning of keys are almost perfect.

TouchPad: The sizes of their touchpads are almost the same. However the length of touchpad on NC10 is 0.1-inch shorter.but the most important thing is that NC10’s touchpad is multi touch that provides a dedicated scrolling bar too and the buttons are horizontally positioned.

Features: The both netbooks feature the same amount of ports but Mini 110 offers 5-in-1 media card reader slot.

Display: both netbooks offer traditional Matte display with anti-glare. However, the option for HD display offering by Mini 110 is really nice.

Audio: The quality of speakers of NC10 are closed to the Dolby-powered speakers used in Eee PC 1000H. So, it is more preferred to the speakers used in HP Mini, although it is totally loud.

Battery: NC10’s 6-cell battery can last 6 hours and 34 sec when its battery manager is enabled. While Mini 110 with 6-cell battery will prolong about 5 hours and half which is not bad although it is shorter than NC10’s.

Performance:

Both Mini 110 and Samsung NC10 come with the same guts. So naturally they must have similar performance record and benchmark result. Both netbooks boot Win XP in 45 sec. They have similar transferring rate (Laptop magazine tested NC20 with 120GB 5400 rpm and it recorded rate of 12.4 MBps) and stay behind IdeaPad S10 with the rating of 17.4 MBps.

Conclution:

Surely, Mini 110 is a better netbook that its predecessor and with its competitive price, excellent keyboard, nice design (specially it doesn’t get tarnished at all), lovely options and enough ports and slots will be able to attract the market easily.

Samsung NC20 is a known netbook that has already been successful to take some proportion of crowded market of netbooks. It is famous for its keyboard and long battery life. But it is not available in the price range of $320- $370 that Mini 110 offers. This way it will lose some of its consumers logically.

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Asus Eee PC 1000HV with ATI Graphics Makes Considerable Benchmark Result

Asus Eee PC 1000HV has just been released only for Italian market. This netbook is identical to 1000HE. The only difference comes to graphics card. 1000HE sports the Intel integrated graphics card while 1000HV is equipped with a discrete ATI Radeon HD 3450 graphics card. Logically, Radeon HD 3450 is supposed to improve the graphics performance (3D and video playback) to the higher rate comparing to Eee PC 1000HE.

Eee PC.it had its hands on this netbook and did the CrystalMark 2004R3 test on this netbook. The result is noteworthy:

The result of graphics or OpenGL performance was about 15 times as high and fast as the figure that Intel integrated graphics in 1000HE scored.

The result in other parts like CPU were almost similar to the scores that 1000HE recorded.

The Eee 1000HV is the first Eee PC that uses the High Definition Movie mode in the Super Hybrid Engine. This facility helps out the user to overclock the CPU to its maximum level and achieves the best viewing experience while watching HD 1080p videos.

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VAIO P Mini Laptop Offers New Options, 2GHz Atom, XP and More

VAIO P created a lot of buzz when it was launched and it became favorite business mini laptop choice for many corporate users.

But for long time Sony did not add any options to this lovely mobile device. Fortunately, Sony is now updating the line up with adding many new appreciated options to its VAIO P mini laptop series.

The VAIO P50 sports bigger storage of 80GB and shorter 1GB of RAM memory and runs on Windows XP rather than Vista.

The other options available for VAIO P mini laptop series consist of choices for 2.0GHz Atom processor, a huge 256GB solid-state drive, lid with new color of champagne gold and, choice of dark brown hue on the palm rest and keyboard for black models.

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Eee PC 1005HA vs. Eee PC 1008HA; 1005HA in a Video Hands-on

Asus Eee PC netbooks especially, Eee PC 1000 line up are identical to each other and one is differentiated from the other one only with few changes either in design and size, weight or some components like graphics card, processor, and battery.

Eee PC 1005HA targeting European market and Eee PC 1008HA are identical and differ from each other when it comes to design, size, VGA port and battery.

Eee 1008HA or Eee PC seashell has a nice stylish design. It is slender and at front side has a razor-sharp edge. For keeping it totally thin Asus has used a non- replaceable battery opposite the Eee PC 1005HA.

It has the replaceable battery so; it is fatter and heavier and as a result looks less stylish than Eee PC 1008HA.

Fortunately, the screens and keyboard are the same. But VGA out put on 1008HA is a full port and it is needed to use a special VGA adaptor. In the following you can see a video hands-on about 1005HA.

If you are interested in seeing some cool pictures about this netbook you can go to see this link.

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Fit PC Nettop: The smallest Desktop in the size of a Hard Drive!

Fit PC latest model is a great portable desktop PC! Yeah, a very portable desktop that you can carry it on every where, you will just need to have a monitor, keyboard mouse in that place.

Fit PC nettop is slightly bigger than a 2.5” hard drive (measuring 4″ x 4.5″ x 1.05″) and is totally a fanless and quiet computer.

It comes with every component: motherboard, CPU, RAM, and a 2.5 inch hard drive and ample 6 USB ports, a DVI output, Ethernet and Wi-Fi.

This nettop is powered by an Intel Atom Z520 or Atom Z530 CPU and a 15watts power system controller.

The system features hardware decoding for 1080p H.264 video.

This budget friendly desktop PC come with price tags between $245 and $400.

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Windows Vista SP2 Available for Download Now

Windows Vista SP2 is available for download now at Microsoft’s website (348MB). However, the Vista users will get the SP2 automatically via Windows Update after a few days.

Vista SP2 adds new supports and some updates and bug fixes available on the current Vista OS including:

- updated support for Bluetooth V2.1

- updated support for directly record Blu-ray discs through Vista

- Fixxing the slow shutdowns

- Fixing the Wi-Fi issues happening after Vista awakes from sleep mode.

- boosting the performance of Vista desktop sidebar gadget and RSS feeds

- fixing 700 bugs and security updates effected vista’s overall performance

- To improve power management efficiency by 10%

- support for VIA Technologies' new 64-bit CPU

-Giving support for exFAT, “which can handle larger files and can also use UTC timestamps so you can synchronize files across different time zones.”

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Microsoft Abets Intel to Grip Netbook Market Against VIA

Majority of netbooks are based on Intel’s Atom platform. The Atom platform as well as the other standard key hardware features including 1GB of memory and 160GB HDD, all together have made these netbooks almost sibling of each other. Although, Intel has dominated the netbook market, VIA was able to obtain some shares of this market after achievement of successful move into the 12-inch netbooks such as Samsung NC20 thanks to its better benchmark result than Atom’s.

Naturally, Intel is concerned about it and feels intimidation from this rival- VIA.

Well, consumers love better products with budget-friendly prices, but the giant vendors like Intel and Microsoft have to think of their own benefits. Unfortunately, Microsoft and Intel have planned to impose some restrictions to netbook market after release of Windows 7.

Microsoft is going to disqualify netbooks coming with screens bigger than 10-inchs to run on Windows 7.

Intel was fined for its antitrust strategy in market against its tough rivals like AMD and also, Microsoft had the similar cases for anti-competitive practices. This cooperation between Intel and Microsoft reminds me the practice of anti-competitive actions but this time in netbook market.

What is your opinion? Do you agree with me? Please share us your ideas in comment section.

Source:

TGdaily

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Pay Just Extra $50 for ION, Play World of Warcraft with your Netbook

ION platform is only adding $50 extra to anetbook based on Tom platform but it will boost the graphics performance 10 times more while delivering decent battery runtime.

ION platform will experience its first launch by Lenovo IdeaPad S12 netbook in August onwards. Lenovo has claimed this upcoming netbook will promise 6 hours battery runtime and playing mainstream games like Spore, Sims, Call of Duty 4, and World of Warcraft (however, you will only sometimes suffer delay or small pause or missing one frame).

Senior product manager Matt Wuebbling explains the major advantages of ION platform in a conversation that he had with Laptop Magazine:

- ION platform sports HDMI because of its ability of outputting HD 1080p video. Even it is able to play back HD and Blu-ray movies through external Blu-ray drive, transcode video flawlessly and let the user surf the web simultaneously.

“However, ION won’t help when it comes to streaming HD video online.”

- “ION will allow users to benefit from graphics-accelerated video editing programs like vReveal.”

- IdeaPad S12 is able to play mainstream games like Spore, and World of Warcraft on its display with 1280 x 800 native resolution by the means of ION. However, “You might see hitching or a missed frame once in a while.”

Matt Wuebbling thinks that ION “turns netbooks to notebooks”.

DO you agree with him?

If he is right what will happen to AMD Neo and Intel’s CULV processors and what will happen to the future of the newly made ultra low-cost laptop category? I think AMD and Intel will insert these two CPUs into ION Platforms if it achieves the success of 10 times performance over Atom platform.

Do you agree with me?

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Dell Studio XPS13 with Pre-installed Ubuntu Available for $1099

Dell Studio XPS 13 is a 13.3-in known budget-friendly portable laptop.

Happily, Dell is offering this laptop with Ubuntu OS for the users who are fan of Linux-based OSes rather than Windows especially, Vista.

Although the Ubuntu-based XPS 13 and Vista-based Studio 13 have similar key specifications, they offer different options in terms of CPU, memory upgrade, and option for higher capacity battery.

Studio 13 running Ubuntu is powered by 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU and 4GB of RAM. However there is only option for faster 2.53GHz Core 2 Duo processor. Simultaneously, the Vista-based counterpart laptop (powering by the same 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU and 4GB of RAM) offers options for faster 2.53GHz and a 2.66GHz Core 2 Due procesors and upgrading for 6GB and 8GB of RAM memory and high capacity 9-cell battery.

Dell Studio XPS 13 either with Ubuntu or Vista starts at $1099.

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Microsoft Launches $80 Million Campaign to Battle Google

Mircrosft has started launching a series of Campaigns for a while to challenge its tough rivals such as Apple, and now this time Yahoo and mainly Google.

Microsoft outraged Apple with bunch of ad series few months ago and now is planning to repeat the same strategy about Google.

The reason is Microsoft is launching its latest revamped version of its Live search engine with the new codenamed of "Bing" instead of the previous name of Kumo that was used for a while.

PC World reports:

To get the word out, Microsoft is planning a massive advertising campaign to launch its new search brand. Bing's debut will feature a $80 to $100 million online, TV, print, and radio advertising campaign, according to AdvertisingAge.

Google is the top leading in search market and Microsoft has stayed far behind it in this field. Microsoft desperately tried to buy total Yahoo thanks to its search engine to challenge Google but it was an unsuccessful attempt.

So, it looks reasonable spending $80 up to $100 million while launching Kumo to raise the position of its search engine in the higher level (and maybe get closer to Google).

Electronista reports:

AdAge hears that Microsoft plans to spend between $80 million to $100 million advertising Bing, the final version of a radically revised search engine codenamed Kumo and meant to compete with Google, Yahoo and other top-tier search engines. At least initially, the ads created by marketing firm JWT won't target Google directly but will instead suggest something wrong with today's search engines and push Bing as the alternative.

The latest Live Search Engine from Microsoft; Kumo, is more improved in the media search section compared to the previous version- the result of search is closer and more matched to result of Google’s search counterpart. However, the text search in Kumo is not so much different than the previous one.

Campaigns and advertisements are always useful way to gain more share of market for a while, but in the end it is the outcome of the product will appoint its future success or failure.

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AMD Athlon Neo processor is more powerful and pricier than the Atom CPU used in netbooks and less powerful and cheaper than the Intel ULV Core 2 Duo and SU processors used in expensive Ultra portable laptops made for corporate users like ThinkPad X200s.

HP Pavilion dv2 is available in American markets with the starting price of sub-$700. Fortunately this low cost laptop is getting $50 price cut in some online retailers such as Staples and Amazon.

At Amazone the laptop was priced at $750 that now after $50 rebate is pricing at $700.

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Meomry: 4 GB RAM (maximum)

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Battery: 6-cell battery up to 3.5 hours

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MSI Wind U115 in UK; Wind 123 with Better Configuration in USA

MSI starts selling its new netbook Wind 115 in UK with the price tag of £499.95 inc vat. The MSI Wind U115 Hybrid is a nice netbook with striking feature to differentiate it from other current netbooks in the market:

- It is the first netbook in the market to be able to use Hybrid Storage Technology to combine HDD and SSD to enhance the performance and save the power

- The HDD can go off or be disabled by the user to same more energy and prolong the battery runtime

- The netbook is powered by a low-power 1.6GHz Z530 Atom CPU unlimke most netbooks in the market that are equipped with Atom N270

- This netbook can easily deliver 13 hours battery life with 6-cell battery and 25 hours with 9-cell battery.

The Wind U115 netbook features:

Processor: Intel Atom Z530 1.6GHz Processor

Chipset: Intel Poulsbo US15W

Memory: 1GB DDR2 533MHz (2GB max.)

Hard Drive: 160GB 2.5" SATA HDD pl us8GB SSD (Hybrid storage)

Display: 10" 1024 x 6 - LCD Panel

Integrated UMA GMA 500 Graphics

Others: 1.3M Webcam; keyboard with US Layout

Network: 802.11 b/g/n WLAN; Bluetooth

Ports/Slot: VGA (15-pin, D-Sub), USB 2.0 x 3, Mic-in, Headphone Output, LAN Port; 4-in-1 Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS Pro)

Battery: 6 Cells

Dimensions: 260 x 180 x 19-31.5 mm

Weight: 1.2kg approx

Operating System: Windows XP Home

MeanWhile, MSI has updated its Wind U123 in USA with slightly better configuration.

MSI Wind U123 is now powered by 1.66GHz Atom CPU, and sports 6-cell battery and 9-cell battery for option to deliver 8 hours battery runtime.

The basic configuration starts at $380 and features:

CPU: Intel Atom N280 Processor

Operating System: Genuine Windows XP Home Edition

Display: 10.2” Wide Screen Display

Others: Exclusive MSI EasyFace( Face Identification software) Inside; Big-Size Keyboard and Touch Pad; Built-in 1.3 Mega Pixels Webcam; Comprehensive Multi-Media Application Interface

Hard Drive with Massive Capacity

Audio: Built-in High-Performance 2 Channel Stereo Speakers, and Microphone

Network: Built-in 802.11b/g Wireless Lan

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