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I Bought One

So, I finally decided to stop waiting for new processors and just buy an HP Mini-Note. I've had it for about a week now, and I'm very happy with my purchase. It's a bit slow playing flash videos sometimes, but for the most part it seems perfectly adequate in terms of speed.

I bought the $549 version, with the 1.2GHz processor, 120GB hard drive, and 1GB of RAM. I've ordered a solid-state drive for it, but it's back-ordered at the moment. I expect that'll provide a bit of a speed improvement. If it helps the battery life, too, that'd be nice, but I'm not expecting it to. The battery life seems to be about the advertised 2 hours, which is fine with me.

The screen is gorgeous. Everyone who sees it is impressed with how great it looks (even my hard-of-sight father). Text is a bit small, but I'll take that over not being able to see a whole webpage. The keyboard is also as great as expected. I can type on it comfortably, with very little adjustment.

Overall, I highly recommend this notebook to anyone looking for something small. It's more expensive than an Eee or an Aspire One, but for me the screen and keyboard are well worth it. If HP puts the Nano in it, I expect it'll kill all competition.