Review of HP mini netbook

A great cheap netbook for touch typists.

This glossy black netbook is a joy to handle. With one of the best keyboards I’ve come across in a netbook – or for that matter in a laptop – I was happy to type on this great little machine for hours at a time and still come out the other end refreshed.

The  screen was a pleasant surprise, with its great 1024×600 resolution, and after watching a couple of movies on it I can confirm that it’s a great multimedia netbook as well. The stereo speakers are cleverly hidden in the netbook’s hinge, so out of sight but perfectly placed for great sound. And of course there’s a headphone socket if you prefer to listen to your music or movies in private.

The webcam isn’t the most detailed I’ve seen, but fine for Skype calls and teleconferencing and everybody I spoke to over the HP mini was quite satisfied with the way I looked! And the sound over the built in mike is good too.

The HP mini 1000 netbook comes complete with Windows XP and its Intel Atom processor will run all the usual applications with an impressive speed, and I worked on some of my larger spreadsheets quite happily.

So if you want a great screen and a superb keyboard, you won’t go wrong with the HP mini 1000 netbook.

Orange Fujitsu amilo netbook gets admiring glances

I’ve always had an eye for fashion, and that’s why the Fujitsu amilo netbook first appealed to me, with its sleek lines and custom colours.

So I was particularly pleased when the other day, sitting over my skinny latte in the local coffee shop and catching up on my emails on my netbook , this guy interrupted me and said he couldn’t help admiring the great orange netbook I was using. It might have been a great pick up line, but he seemed genuinely interested. And once he’d got over the colour (a clip on cover, so it was blue yesterday!) he was truly wowed by the non-glare screen.

Most cheap netbook screens these days have that glossy finish that makes them ultra reflective but the Fujitsu has this great non-reflective screen which means you can use it in any lighting conditions.

The screen and the orange cover made his own cheap netbook look dowdy, though you do have to be a bit flamboyant to get away with bright colours on your netbook. But I’m not as simple as you may think, so I wonder what he’ll do when he tries to contact my netbook on the Skype address I gave him and finds he’s talking to the local wheely bin cleaners instead!!

see you later

Sarah

Acer Aspire One netbook rules in cheap netbooks war

Acer expects to sell over 13 million Aspire netbooks in the US in 2009, along with 8 million to the EU. The cheap but powerful Acer Aspire One series has been a roaring success and these netbooks have been falling off the shelves as fast as Acer could supply them.

In these credit crunch days, with the recession being felt worldwide, it makes sense to get as much bang for your buck as possible and the Acer Aspire One series netbook gives just that. It’s cheap, but looks anything but cheap and performance is up there with the best of them.

The Aspire One is compact, and offers the choice of 16GB flash memory for outstanding lightness and battery life , or 160GB Hard Disk for the ultimate in storage when you need to take masses of video and your whole MP3 collection with you to the far flung corners of the world.

So if cheapness and lightness is all, you have the A110 model, but for just a little extra you get all the oomph of the big disk A150 netbook.

I for one wouldn’t be without my Aspire One netbook, and it goes everywhere with me. Cheap, yes but only in price.

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