HP Compaq Mini 701eg
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Average of 9 scores (from 9 reviews)
Reviews for the HP Compaq Mini 701eg
Hoidy-Toidy. If you are familiar with the term "netbook", the first thing you probably think of is the Asus Eee PC. Actually, there is a whole series of netbooks from other brands that also have their good qualities. For those who like well designed netbooks, the HP Compaq Mini 701eg should stand out in front of the crowd, since it looks, in comparison to some more clumsy colleagues, extremely good. How the chic netbook scored in an extensive review, you can read here.
Source: Trusted Reviews Archive.org version
There's an interesting sub-plot to the netbook craze that 99.9 per cent of consumers have no idea about. It all concerns market share and a battle between what we can now consider the big three of PC manufacturing: Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Acer. Acer, the challenger to HP and Dell's hegemony, has gone into netbooks in a big way, leading the market as a result. And, though Dell and HP have made a lot of noise, they actually hold a relatively small part of this market. This is partly deliberate, large manufacturers have been wary of cannibalising sales of more profitable mainstream notebooks, but with netbooks seemingly here to stay, both have started to treat the segment a little more seriously. An attractive netbook with an outstanding keyboard, the HP Compaq Mini 700 is only let down by compromises that aren't present in similarly priced and better featured competitors. It is fine for casual use, but more demanding users will find it a little half-baked.
70, Preis 70, Leistung 70, Ausstattung 70
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 03/06/2009
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 70% performance: 70% features: 70%
Foreign Reviews
Source: Notebookinfo DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/02/2009
Rating: Total score: 70% performance: 36% features: 54% display: 87% mobility: 74% workmanship: 88%
Source: e-media - 10/09
Comparison, , Long, Date: 06/01/2009
Rating: Total score: 80% display: 60% mobility: 40% workmanship: 100% ergonomy: 100%
Source: Chip.de DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 02/27/2009
Rating: Total score: 73% price: 60% performance: 70% features: 70% display: 92% mobility: 61% ergonomy: 93%
Source: Notebookjournal DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/26/2009
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 60% performance: 50% features: 10% display: 50% mobility: 30% workmanship: 70% ergonomy: 40%
Source: Notebookcheck DE→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 01/16/2009
Rating: Total score: 84% performance: 52% display: 78% mobility: 86% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 84% emissions: 80%
Source: mobile Zeit - 2/09
Single Review, online available, Length Unknown, Date: 01/01/2009
Rating: Total score: 50% price: 90%
Source: Notebook Italia IT→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 12/22/2008
Rating: emissions: 90%
Source: PCM NL→EN Archive.org version
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 02/27/2009
Rating: Total score: 80% display: 50% mobility: 60%
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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on Mobile Intel 945GM chipset. It is a faster clocked version of the GMA 900 and supports no hardware T&L (Transform & Lightning) accelleration (which is required for some games).
These graphics cards are not suited for Windows 3D games. Office and Internet surfing however is possible.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Atom: The Intel Atom series is a 64-Bit (not every model supports 64bit) microprocessor for cheap and small notebooks (so called netbooks), MIDs, or UMPCs. The speciality of the new architecture is the "in order" execution (instead of the usual and faster "out of order" execution). Therefore, the transistor count of the Atom series is much lower and, thus, cheaper to produce. Furthermore, the power consumption is very low. The performance per Megahertz is therfore worse than the old Pentium 3M (1,2 GHz on par with a 1.6 GHz Atom).
N270:
Power efficient, cheap and slow Netbook single core CPU. Because of the in-order execution, the performance per MHz is worse than Core Solo or Celeron M processors.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.10.20":
This is a standard display format for tablet computers or small convertibles. You see more on the screen than on a smartphone but you can't use big resolutions well. On the other hand, mobility is not a problem.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.HP: Founded in 1939, the US company is a major server and printer manufacturer and one of the leading IT companies in the world. Until 2015, the company was called Hewlett-Packard Company. After a split, the computer division was renamed HP Inc.
In 2023, HP had an approximate market share of 22% of global PC sales, making it number 2 after Lenovo.
73.44%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.