HP Mini 5101

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Reviews for the HP Mini 5101

100% HP Mini 5101 10.1-inch Netbook Laptop PC
Source: Comp Reviews
HP's Mini 5101 is the successor to the very popular 2140 netbook. This netbook sports an all black look and a switch to a mixed aluminum and magnesium alloy chassis with a soft rubberized coating that gives it an extremely durable feel. HP continues their superb keyboard layout with a new isolated key layout that is still very comfortable to use. It would have been nice to see them continue to include an ExpressCard slot like the older 2140 but it isn't too missed. The Mini 5101 continues their trend as the best business netbook maker.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 08/25/2009
Rating: Total score: 100%

HP Mini 5101
Source: Small Business Computing
Love ’em or hate ’em, there’s no denying that netbooks are a trend to be reckoned with. In fact, these compact, affordable computing and communications companions could account for 17 percent of total notebook unit volume in 2009, according to market-research firm Displaybank, up from 11 percent in 2008. As with other netbooks, the HP Mini 5101 won’t replace your primary PC. It doesn’t have the power for heavy lifting like image- or video-editing. But if you need a take-anywhere Web/e-mail companion that can also be used for light office duty and presentations, the Mini 5101 has all the power and features you’ll need along with a design appropriate for business. 
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/11/2009
Rating: price: 80% performance: 70% features: 70%

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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).

Only older games can be played fluently with these graphics chips (if they were not too demanding). Shared memory graphic cores in this category got the advantage of less heat production and longer battery runtimes. For office, internet, image processing, and video editing tasks these graphics chips are still useable without any restrictions.

>> 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).

N280:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

10.1": The netbook/subnotebook has a quite small display format. Nonetheless, it is a common format for netbooks. The advantage is, that the subnotebook/netbook can be small dimensioned and can be carried easily. Further the small display has the advantage, that it needs few energy, which improves the battery runtime and in consequence the mobility. The disadvantage is that the reading of texts is a bit exhausting for the eyes. It is difficult to use high resolutions.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

1.3 kg: This subnotebook is one of the most lightweight of all notebooks and can be carried very easily. There exist only few sub-notebooks, which weight less. 10 inch displays are normal for this class of weight.

HP: The Hewlett-Packard Company, founded 1935, commonly referred to as HP, is a technology corporation headquartered in California, United States. HP specializes in developing and manufacturing computing, storage, and networking hardware, software and services. Major product lines include personal computing devices, enterprise servers, related storage devices, as well as a diverse range of printers and other imaging products. Other product lines, including electronic test equipment and systems, medical electronic equipment, solid state components and instrumentation for chemical analysis. HP posted US $91.7 billion in annual revenue in 2006, making it the world's largest technology vendor in terms of sales. In 2007 the revenue was $104 billion, making HP the first IT company in history to report revenues exceeding $100 billion. Market share regarding sales of personal computers in 2007 (market research IDC): HP 18.9 %, Dell 16.4 %, Acer 9.9 %, Lenovo 7.5 %, Apple 5.7 %

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100%: This notebook model is regarded by the reviewers to be exceptionally good. There hardly exist laptops, which are rated so good. If this rating can be taken seriously, this is a clear recommendation for purchase.

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