The HP Mini 5103 may seem like the netbook that has it all — an all-metal case, 7200RPM hard drive, optional HD and touchscreen displays, an optional dual core CPU, hard drive sensor to prevent damage, and even a battery indicator built right into the battery. But you know what it doesn’t have? NVIDIA ION graphics. Fortunately there’s always a…

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The HP Mini 5103 is the latest business-class netbook from Hewlett Packard. Physically it looks almost exactly like the HP Mini 5101 and 5102 which precede it. The primary difference is that in the US the netbook is only available in a new dark brown “espresso” color. Under the hood, the HP Mini 5103 has all the things that made…

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Most netbooks are designed to be cheap and portable above all else. As such, most netbooks are made of cheap and have inexpensive and often tiny keyboards that aren’t really designed to stand up to a lot of wear and tear. And then there’s HP’s line of netbooks designed for business and education customers. These netbooks tend to cost more than their consumer-oriented…

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The HP Mini 5102 may have just been introduced to the world this morning, but those crazy kids at Laptop Magazine have already published a detailed review (something tells me they managed to get their hands on a demo unit before this morning). The verdict? HP has made one of the best netbooks around even better. Basically the HP Mini…

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The HP Mini 5101 is a business class netbook with premium features. While that might sound silly, there’s no better way to describe the HP Mini 5101, which has a number of characteristics that set it apart from the crowd. Sure, it has a 10 inch screen and Intel Atom processor just like virtually every other netbook on the market….

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I could have sworn everything was supposed to be bigger in Texas, not China. But a cottage industry seems to have popped up around cloning Western netbooks and making them a little larger in China. Yesterday it was the 10 inch Dell Latitude 2100 that was blown up into an 11.1 inch model. Today’s it’s the HP Mini 5101′s turn….

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HP has been making netbooks for almost as long as anybody. HP’s earliest netbooks included sturdy aluminum cases and premium features like an accelerometer that shuts down the hard drive to prevent damage in the event of a fall. Late last year HP started producing cheaper, more consumer-oriented netbooks. But the company hasn’t given up on the idea of netbooks…

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Almost every netbook on the market today that has a hard drive ships with a 5400rpm HDD. A few have slower 4200rpm hard drives. And a very few have faster 7200rpm disks. Probably the most highly visible netbook to include a 7200rpm hard drive is the HP Mini 5101, because it ships standard with that feature. If you’re willing to…

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A few days ago HP started offering the opportunity to configure the HP Mini 5101 with Linux, high resolution screens, extended batteries, and other options. Unfortunately, the base price for the fully configurable netbook was $539, which is far higher than the $399 starting price for the pre-configured models of this netbook. In other words, if you wanted a 6…

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The HP Mini 5101 business-class netbook has been available for order for a few weeks now, and James Kendrick at jkOnTheRun has been handling a review unit for the past few days. I’m hoping to get a review unit within the next few weeks. But in the meantime, if you’re interested in this netbook you should check out a video…

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HP has started offering configuration options for the Mini 5101 business-class netbook. The pre-configured version of this netbook starts at $399, while the base price for customizable models are $539 if you want Windows XP and $498 if you choose the model with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop. Bear in mind, the only way to get those prices is to ignore…

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I’m hoping to get my hands on an HP Mini 5101 review unit in the next few weeks. But in the meantime, Laptop Magazine and PC Magazine have each published detailed reviews of this business class mini-laptop. The Mini 5101 is HP’s follow-up to the popular HP Mini 2140. Like its predecessor, the Mini 5101 has a few special features…

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