This post was written by Maureen Jones
HP’s Mini 1000′s footprint is nearly identical to that of the earlier HP 2133 Mini-Note PC, measuring slightly wider and thinner, as per CNET review. The actual hands-on experience is the best of any Netbook tested so far, making it well worth a look for anyone interested in jumping into the Netbook arena, especially those who dread spending time typing on cramped keyboards. HP may have arrived late to the consumer Netbook game, but by lifting the generous keyboard from last year’s business-oriented model, the Mini 1000 easily joins the category’s top tier.
Hewlett Packard has listed a budget business laptop called the HP 550 on its product site. The HP 550 laptop has inexpensive Core 2 Duos and Celerons as its processors, apart from an Intel GMA X3100 graphics, an option between a combo optical drive or DVD burner, a 15.4-inch diagonal WXGA Brightview display and a maximum of 4GB of RAM and 250GB of hard drive storage. Apart from these components, the HP 550 also features an 802.11 Wi-Fi, an Ethernet LAN and a built-in 56K modem.
Hewlett-Packard, a leading global IT company has recently announced the launch of its two, 12-inch EliteBooks for business travelers. The company launched its pint-sized business laptops – the EliteBook 2530p and the convertible tablet EliteBook 2730p and also a refreshed HP Compaq 2710p at Intel’s Developers Forum (IDF) 2008. Nowadays, frequent business travelers are also known as elitists, hence the name Elitebook is derived. Despite a miniature size frame and weighing at roughly 3.2 pounds, the model 2530p features anodized aluminum—the new business looks for the EliteBooks. HP also incorporated a 12-inch LED widescreen for its 2530p, new Centrino 2 processors, built-in DVD burner, which can be removed only to be replaced by a second 1.8-inch hard drive. As the primary drive is concerned, the 2530p has enough room for either1.8 inch or a 2.5-inch hard drive.