Have you watched Black-Eyed Peas’ latest video for the new song “I gotta feeling?” Some sharp eyes were able to catch a part of the video where the lading lady was holding (or using?) the HP Mini Vivienne Tam Edition.
I’ve watched this video only once, and I don’t remember noticing the said HP Mini netbook.
The netbook appears at around 2 minutes 50 seconds.
How does an HP Mini 311 with NVIDIA ION graphics and loads of exciting features sound to you? This netbook is well worth around $1,500 so I don’t think nobody in this planet would not want to have it.
So, what are you waiting for head over to this site and learn how you get the chance to bring home one of these 12 (yes NVIDIA is giving away 12 units) HP Mini 311’s loaded with the following specs and extras:
Among the many netbooks that debut with Windows 7 OS at Amazon, it was surprising that many chose to purchase the HP Mini 110. The HP Mini 110 currently leads the hordes of Windows 7 netbooks up for grabs at Amazon, followed by three Eee PC 1005 netbooks with one of them running Win7.
Whatever made the HP Mini 110 tops the Amazon charts, were really don’t know. But in case you’re interested to follow others here’s what you’re going to get aside from a Windows 7 running OS from the HP Mini 311:
1.6GHz N270 Atom CPU
1GB of RAM
10.1-inch LED anti glare display
160 GB HDD
Wi-Fi
full-sized keyboard
6-cell battery
The HP Mini 110 currently sells fo $319.99 at Amazon. Relatively cheap which could probably be the reason why it is leading the bestsellers right now.
Verizon Wireless has added two HP Mini netbooks to its stable of netbook bundle offerings – the HP Mini 311-1037NR and the HP Mini 110-1046NR. These two netbooks shall come with Verizon’s Mobile Broadband network built-in and give Verizon Wireless customers the ability to access their email accounts or browse the web through Verizon’s Wireless Global Access service plan.
Obviously the reason why Verizon added these netbooks is to join the Windows 7 netbook craze that is just starting to heat up right now. Although only the HP Mini 311 has the Windows 7 installed, the HP Mini 110 could still be a good choice.
Anyway, here are the published specs of the HP Mini 311:
Genuine Windows(®) 7 Home Premium
11.6″-diagonal HD LED BrightView widescreen display (1366 x 768)
16:9 aspect ratio for full-screen HD content playback
If you’re looking to upgrade from XP or Vista on your netbook, or perhaps you already have, then here’s some great news for you. Some netbook makers have already updated the driver download pages to include Windows 7 drivers which should work better than Vista drivers you may be using instead. Most Asus netbooks now have drivers for Windows 7 from their support page.
Other companies have updated their support pages but, not all companies support many netbook models. There is support from Toshiba for the NB205, while Acer are providing Windows 7 drivers for the Aspire One 751 and AOP531h with AOD250 to follow. Dell are listing drivers for the Mini 10v and Mini 10 but not the Inspiron Mini 9 or 12. HP on the other hand have support for discontinued netbooks, such as the HP Mini 2140. They’ve also got support for the 110, 5101 and other models. Lenovo have also updated their support page to include manuals but, no drivers yet. This could change soon though.
With many netbooks already able to load into OS X it comes as no surprise that the netbook/CULV device from HP can also run OS X. One hacker over at the Insanely Mac forums, has successfully loaded into the Apple operating system on their HP Mini 311. Both the high resolution of the device (1366 x 768) and graphics (NVIDIA GeForce 9400M) are supported in OS X along with the card reader, Ethernet, webcam and bluetooth. Unfortunately WiFi and sound don’t work at the moment. Neither does the sleep/resume function but, this has been a case with many Hackintosh netbooks.
Somewhere in China appeares what seems to be an HP Mini 5101 netbook. But if you take a closer look, you’d immediately noticed that this particular netbook is actually different from the HP 5101. While the HP Mini 5101 only has a 10.1 inch display, this 5101 clone however got 11.6 inches of display goodness.
The said netbook was manufactured by a Chinese PC maker Phecda and includes not as good as the real HP 5101 specs such as an Intel Atom N270 processor, 1GB of RAM, 160GB of HDD, WiFi, 1.3MP webcam, 2450mAh battery and weighs 1.21kg.
If you are curious to know, the HP Mini 5101, the real one has Atom N280, 2MP webcam, a 7200RM HD and a higher capacity battery.
Price of this HP 5101 clone is around $300 US dollar equivalent in Shenzhen China. It is estimated to be available come November.
Over at LaptopMag the folks benchmarked the HP Mini 311 with 3DMark06 along with trying Far Cry 2 on the ION powered netbook. Users asked for more specific tests to be done which relate to very popular games. They asked for the netbook to be tested with Spore, Call of Duty 4 and World of Warcraft. Call of Duty 4 has already been demoed on the HP Mini 311 which you can view here.
Laptop Mag listened to their readers and have videos of the netbook playing both World of Warcraft and Spore. Overall they were pleased with the results. They even made use of the 1080p HD Video out and connected it up to a Samsung HD TV and the results are very impressive. While doing their tests, they’ve also played the HD trailer of “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs” back, which apart from some motion blur, had smooth playback. You can view their videos of the games and trailer tested here.
Of course you’ve heard about the HP Mini 311 right? Even though it hasn’t been out right now, this doesn’t stop HP from preparing some guides on how you can possibly upgrade its features in the future.
MyHPMini.com stumbled upon this vital documents relating to the upgrade features for the upcoming HP Mini 311. And from the looks of it, HP seems to be really prepping up the HP Mini 311 to become a powerful machine with excellent video handling capability.
Not convinced? Well, here are just some of the upgrades that you can do with the HP Mini 311:
NVIDIA ION, the FULL platform, only with Windows 7
Added 1GB RAM (plus 1GB on-board ram), total 2GB
Added 2GB RAM (plus the 1GB on-board), total 3GB
80GB Solid-State-Drive (SSD)
250GB Hard Drive, 5400rpm, only with Windows 7
320GB Hard Drive, 5400rpm, only with Windows 7
Windows 7 Starter, Basic, Premium and Professional options. (All 32-bit)
One hacker has already added a Broadcom HD video accelerator to the Intel Atom powered Samsung NC10 which worked well. Another hacker has tried the same hack on a VIA C7-M powered netbook and come out with good results. Chris over at HP Mini Note PC has modded his HP Mini 2133 with a Broadcom Crystal HD Enhanced Media Accelerator card. With it installed he’s been able to play 720 and 1080p videos on his netbook including Blu-Ray video. The Blu-Ray videos needed to be paused for a few seconds first though so the video could buffer.
Unfortunately Chris hasn’t provided a guide on how you can mod your own Mini 2133 but, you can see how successful his project was in the videos after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
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