HP Mini 210 Mini Laptop
I own a normal laptop, one of those 15 inch ones, and I asked a friend to lend me his mini laptop computer so that I could compare the two devices and talk to you about them. My laptop, as mentioned above, is a normal format 15 inch Intel Centrino Laptop with a Pentium M 1,73GHz processor, 1GB of DDR2 Memory, a 60GB hard drive and an integrates 128MB video card. It is probably one of the least powerful laptops of these days, but for my working purposes it is quite enough. It can run decent quality videos and with the help of the PCMCIA port, I managed to give it a surround sound card of the best quality that you can fit into this laptop, so basically it has everything I need. As far as the price is concerned, adding the cost of the professional sound card, the laptop cost around 300 dollars a couple of weeks ago, so it is quite cheap.
The mini laptop computer that I had for testing had a similar configuration and even after some benchmarks the results were pretty close. The total price of the mini laptop computer was around 400 dollars, but considering that it was new and my laptop was purchased as a second hand product, you can consider that the prices were the same as well. The only thing separating these two devices was the size. I can clearly tell you that the mini laptop computer was half the size of my laptop, and that is pretty small. Any smaller and you could maybe call it highly advanced smart phone prototype.
I am pretty sure that if I had 100 or so more dollars, I would have purchased the mini laptop computer because it was new, it has all the features that I needed and it uses so little energy that it can run around 8 hours on the battery alone. Comparing that with my normal laptop, the mini laptop’s battery last more than 4 times as much as my laptop’s. That is quite an achievement and I think that it would make for a great mobile device. In the future, the mini laptop computer will be even cheaper and you will get even more battery time from it. Even now, I think that it is the perfect device for people that are constantly on the road and need quick access to their private data an files.
