The two USB ports are one shy of matching the Eee PC's three, but the Mini-Note has an ExpressCard slot for devices like a 3G ExpressCard for cellular broadband. HP has informed me that the touchpad was used because the Mini-Note's intended audience-K-12 students-prefer it over a pointing stick. I'm surprised HP didn't use a pointing stick as it did on its Compaq 2710p, in which the mouse buttons are properly placed-below the pointing device. The other way would be to use two hands to surf (one to left-click, the other for the touchpad and right-click button), which is awkward. In other words, when navigating with two fingers (with the index finger on the touchpad and your thumb on the left-click button), you have to use a third finger to click on the right mouse button. The placement of the mouse buttons, however, is questionable because they are adjacent to the touchpad. Typing up this review on the Mini-Note was almost as comfortable as it would have been on a mainstream laptop with a full-size keyboard and is hands-down better than the Eee PC's keyboard. There's barely any spacing between each key, giving the illusion of a bigger keyboard.
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HP did a nice job of masking the fact that the keyboard scale is 92 percent, not full size. By contrast, the HTC Shift sports an 800-by-480 resolution, but because of the Shift's smaller screen size, HTC had to put in a resolution toggle switch (to 1,024-by-600), allowing users to fit more content on the screen. Further, the size of the screen keeps text or images at its native 1,280-by-768 resolution from looking unbearably tiny. "Frameless" refers to the glossy coating on the screen that extends to the screen's borders, making it look like a miniature HDTV, complete with a pair of speakers along the sides. The 8.9-inch screen is bigger and brighter than the Eee PC's 7-inch display. The masterful design is carried over to the interior, where a frameless screen and a wonderful keyboard reside. Although the Mini-Note isn't pocketable like the Fujitsu LifeBook U810, carrying it around the country or the city is still an absolute joy.
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Not as light as the 2.2-pound ASUS Eee PC 4G, it weighs 2.8 pounds with the three-cell battery and 3.2 pounds with the six-cell battery that my test unit came with. The Mini-Note is about as well made as the HTC Shift but costs only half as much. It makes this tiny laptop look like a darker, miniature Apple MacBook Pro. The anodized aluminum that HP draped all over the exterior is absolutely gorgeous.
The Mini-Note is designed to look like a $2,000 machine. My configuration was relatively expensive others start as low as $499-a price that HP had to nail down in order for the Mini-Note to fly. Even more compelling, however, is that this miniature device can be used by kindergarteners or top-level executives alike, and is affordable to most families with schoolchildren. It sports a sexy, 3-pound design, has features similar to the Eee PC, and offers a variety of operating systems to choose from. The HP 2133 Mini-Note PC ($749 direct) has the potential to be just that. Now, manufacturers are mobilizing to create an Eee PC "killer," so to speak. The Eee PC is a sleek, 2.2-pound ultraportable that costs less than $400-something the UMPC platform had promised but failed to deliver. It didn't take long for PC makers to realize the gold mine ASUS struck with its Eee PC 4G.
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