Comments on: HP unveils HP 2140 Mini-Note

By: DougC3

DougC3 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:43:20 +0000

I found some other interesting uses for ExpressCards at Wikipedia (here): Firewire 800, external SATA disk drives, SSDs, TV tuner cards, soundcards, memory card readers, and Asus's new XG Station graphics card. And then there's the ever-popular GPS receiver.

Even though ExpressCard slots seem to be less common these days on newer laptops, I think they can add a lot of versatility.

By: DougC3

DougC3 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:43:20 +0000

I found some other interesting uses for ExpressCards at Wikipedia (here): Firewire 800, external SATA disk drives, SSDs, TV tuner cards, soundcards, memory card readers, and Asus's new XG Station graqphics card. And then there's the ever-popular GPS receiver.

Even though ExpressCards seem to be less common these days on newer laptops, I think they can add a lot of versatility.

By: DougC3

DougC3 — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:49:49 +0000

Cool. What else do you know of, besides 3G cards, that we might want to put in the ExpressCard slot?

By: jamir

jamir — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:25:16 +0000

When and where its gonna be available in Jeddah, KSA? I'm about to buy the LG X110 this january but I heard about this HP machine…

By: Tommy Yoo

Tommy Yoo — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:36:57 +0000

It'd be interesting to see what the price of the higher-resolution model will be – that alone should send it above the rest of the market.

Also, it would be interesting to note who manufactures the high-res 10.1″ display.

By: DougC3

DougC3 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:05:57 +0000

I think this is going to be a formidable contender: good keyboard, great battery life, small & trim, and, to top it off, enough screen pixels on the 1366 x 768 version to have a document and full webpage side by side. I've never much liked the 9 x 16 aspect ratio, but I think this _more_ than makes up for the loss of vertical pixels. Now, if I can just wait until the 1366 x 768 job is released.

A smaller review at Computer Shopper (here), complains that typed print is not good and black, but gray and with a halo, on the 1024 x 576 version (I don't think they mentioned the other display), but if this is true on both displays, maybe it can be corrected by changing font type or print size.)

This one is at the top of my list now, until somebody comes out with something like it with a trackpoint

By: supportive

supportive — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:20:55 +0000

Intel Atom or VIA?

By: RustinHWright

RustinHWright — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:32:26 +0000

What I would like to know is, will anybody figure out a way to get just the guts of this to upgrade 2133s like mine?

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By: Anonymous Reader

Anonymous Reader — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:37:13 +0000

Nice computer. Like the fact that the Express Card gives you some many more options.

However, we are waiting for the Pixel Qi Screens to come out on a device like this, where we might see a lovable increase in battery use times per charge "by 5 fold" (according to Pixel Qi site). Now, with this unit with more than 7 hours with 6 cell battery if we multiplied times 5 fold what numbers would we see?

And on top of that the Pixel Qi screen would be using integrated touchscreen built-in that would be readable in DIRECT SUNLIGHT. With this case and design, then HP would be the winner. Now, with only 2 USB ports, and that shinny backlit VGA screen, it is nice, but not that nice. Very good unit, but could be much better!

By: Mikez

Mikez — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:18:18 +0000

Not enough USB ports?
Fixable. The ExpressCard has the USB bus wired to it and room for a
USB hub and four more (mini) USB ports on/in a plug-in adapter.