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HP accepting preorders on overpriced Mini-Note batteries

Want a spare battery for your HP Mini-Note? You’d better have $200 or so to spare, because HP is charging $191 for a spare/replacement 6-cell 55Wh battery. Yep, a single battery will cost you almost 2/5ths the price of the cheapest Mini-Note laptop.But wait, there’s more. The 3-cell 28Wh battery actually costs more, with ridiculous […]

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Upgrading the HP Mini-Note’s RAM and hard drive

While the netbook market is about to get a lot more crowded, the HP Mini-Note remains one of the most attractive looking low-cost mini-notebooks. It’s got a slick, professional design that makes the Asus Eee PC look a bit like a kid’s toy. But it also has a sluggish VIA C7-M CPU, compared with the […]

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Side by side shots of the Eee PC, Cloudbook, and Mini-Note

And here I thought my house was starting to fill up with little computers. While I’ve got an Asus Eee PC and HP Mini-Note, Flickr user Robert Nelson has me beat. He’s got both of those computers, plus an Everex Cloudbook. So if you’ve ever wanted to see how the three computer stack up against […]