I bought a HP Mini at the beginning of March. I’ve been extremely satisfied with it. It is light, small and… well… pretty. I’m satisfied with the speed. I don’t do anything extensive on it so 1.6GHz processor is fine for me. The keyboard is great. It takes some getting used to because I’ve never owned a laptop before. The video processor is good too. I don’t plan on gaming but this puppy can run Second Life. Sure Second Life crashes after awhile but it impresses me.

The power connection does not fit properly into it’s hole. It constantly slides out and seems like it wasn’t made properly to sit in the slot. It also has too many lights on it. They blink and glow really bright at night. I haven’t really looked to see if there is a way to disable the lights. I’m not sure if I want complain about the screen size. Some popups get cut off and it’s hard to grab a hold of them to resize them. Finally, this thing gets SUPER hot. I’m looking for something to put on my lap so that I won’t get third degree burns from this thing.

Even with all my nitpicks, I love the HP Mini. I’d recommend it to anyone wanting to lighten their daily load of gadgets.

Visit the HP site to see the HP Mini XP Edition.

Specs:
# Operating System: MS Windows XP Home
# Processor Name: Intel Atom N270
# Processor Speed: 1.6 GHz
# RAM: 1 GB
# Weight: 2.5 lb
# Screen Size: 10.2 inches
# Screen Size Type: widescreen
# Graphics Card: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950
# Storage Capacity: 60 GB
# Networking Options: 802.11g