yeah, and i find that i oftenly wanna leave my laptop at home when i travel just because that brick is a pain to carry.

when you travel a lot, a 2kg brick laptop weights more like 10kg. and a 1kg lappy weights like 100g.
not everyone needs a large screen a high performance GC. because not everyone game on their lappy.

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Added on January 6, 2009, 4:35 pmthe Asus N10J is my first choice if it weren't for the weight. it's a wee bit more than 1.5kg and goes over 1.6kg with the adapter and mouse and yada yada.
this new Mini 2140 is perfect (or near perfect) for me. need to know if there's 6 cell available for it. hopefully won't be as heavy as the N10J.

This post has been edited by paskal: Jan 6 2009, 04:35 PM

the official HP site for the Mini 2140

looks very nice.

LoL
this baby trumps everything including the NC10.

you use BT a lot? i don't. heck i've never used BT for anything. it only sucks battery in my laptop.
i've once tried BT wireless mouse. my butt-o-meter says it sucks battery faster. so switched to normal RF wireless mouse and lose one usb port. never used the BT for anything ever again.

you guys are not insane. you guys are just.. erm.... rich.

with the current technology? i don't think a better replacement would come that fast.
there's a benchmark that i've read somewhere putting the new dual core atom (4 virtual cores with HT) against this N270 single core atom (2 virtual core with HT). not much performance increase with 25% less battery time. even intel admitted for people to expect that it sucks 25% more battery. and the new dual core atom losses in office benchmark.

the newer N530 uses max 2W of power. N270 uses max 2.5W. the newer Poulsbo US15W chipset (that does HD decoding on chip) doesn't support 2GB ram and is limited to PATA interface.

so something better than a magnesium alloy cased 2140 with 16:9 wider screen? could be. definitely. but not with the upcoming models that i've read about.

high resolution on an 8" screen.
10" is the bare minimum that my eyes could accept. and since i really need to type on the netbook, the keyboard and key location has utmost importance.

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Added on January 8, 2009, 9:00 pmreliability? against the sony? i wouldn't really put 'HP' and 'reliability' together in the same word. 'reliability' of the new HP business laptop is somewhat degrading.

experienced it first hand with 3 of my HP 'business' laptop. maybe it's just me, but guess my friends also got unlucky too.

This post has been edited by paskal: Jan 8 2009, 09:00 PM

i'm sure i've seen separate line in and outs on the 2140. er yup, it does have a headphone jack and a mic jack.

i'm sure he's referring to the Mini 2133

that's quite reasonable. considering that other netbooks are also retailing at around $450-ish.
the $499 comes with 3 cells. $529 for the 6 cells. RM1999 when it comes here?

wow both are using the same case. even the battery is interchangeable.

ditto. i'm guessing it won't be at the same price as the Mini 1000.

not feeling nice to do some bulk charity for the good of mankind?

auww you would do all of that for the 2140?
very touching..

does it look so different? i thought the casing is the same or nearly the same, no?
my eyes can't differentiate any visible difference from comparison pics between the 2133 and 2140 on the net. have you even seen the 2140?

that's why i just don't get it. the mini 1000 has the fancy design. the 2133 has the ever boring dull brushed aluminium. and the 2140 follows the same boring dull no fancy looking brushed aluminium.

i can't see any imprint on the 2133. same ol dull brushed alu

i guess you don't even care to find the specs for both and compare, right?
because imprint fancy design == good.
brushed alu, alu construction == not good.

if only the mini 1000 comes with the same 1.6 ghz proc and ram as in the 2140...

if only the mini1000 comes with the same spec as the 2140. like 1.6ghz atom proc. 1gb ram...

here you go.

AFAIK, netbooks running with 1.6GHz Atom and 1GB RAM has no problem running DOTA.
i've read about it quite a lot in netbook reviews for different models all across the net