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This isn’t quite the minimalist’s mobile office, I could do without a few things but the goal was to travel light. Working full time, and being a student as well as keeping up with things on the go can require a lot of crap. Carrying a 15 inch laptop and a few text books around everyday gets old so I invested in the netbook phenomena.

The Netbook

I wanted to get something that offered a little but more build quality than some of the Acer/MSI machines that I saw at the local electronics store so I did some research and came up with the HP mini 2140. Like most netbooks it sports the 1.6ghz Atom processor and chipset. I ordered mine with 1gb of memory, the 160 HD, the HD Screen (1366×768) and 6-cell battery. This preconfigured model runs around $480 but your shipping and sales tax will probably add another $50 or so.

The screen is very bright and clear, and unlike some netbook screens where the resolution is 1024×600 or 1024×576, the high-res screen doesn’t cut back on any typical viewing problems. It is a glassy screen but it is also capable of being VERY bright so my outdoor useage hasn’t been incredibly hampered. While I like high-res screens some people might find the text to be too small. It does cut down to 800×600 without too much distortion if you find that 1366×768 is too much for you while still offering more horizontal resolution than it’s HP counterpart, the Mini 1000.
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