Daily Archives November 17, 2010

My HP Mini

Very recently I bought a brand new netbook. For the uninitiated , a netbook is class of low cost utility laptops that do much of the work that we use our high end laptops for. Tasks like browsing, watching movies and playing music. To be very frank , I was a bit skeptical about how productive I would be on my netbook given its small screen size , cramped keyboard(not so cramped actually- 93% of standard size) and low powered processor. But the device has been a pleasant surprise.
I was able to install Visual Studio 2008, Office 2010 and linux VM on it and everything works fine. It battery runs for an amazing 7 hours, is ultra portable has 2GB DDR3 RAM and a 320 GB 7200 rpm HDD and Windows 7 comes preinstalled. And it cost me just 22K. Now that’s value for money...
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