Comments on: HP's new business Netbook: the Mini 5101

One of our all-ime favorite Netbooks is the HP Mini 2140. The revamped, and actually quite different, Mini 5101 trades the silver metal look, with a slight curve to the lid, for a more squared-off design, in black brushed aluminum.

[ednerdtheonly]

At least the styling is now more in line with their elitebooks, I'm actually surprised that they took so long. I assume that they were waiting to make sure that netbooks would be well received before commiting this look to them, as Dell has done with their Latitude netbook. That said, why doesn't this come with the Nvidia Ion chipset instead?

[Jayayess1190]

I love this netbook, except for the bezel.

[Massracin]

Looks like a DEC Highnote Ultra to me...........16 years later! They were ahead of their time :^)

[FiKill]

Looks like ZX Spectrum with LCD :o)

[sherbisness]

The new HP Mini 5101, looks very nice, well thought out design, I am so thankful that this is a move away from shiny black hardware. I hope that all hardware manufactures get my message "shiny black is so yesterday, should have never been used, shiny black was just a bad impractical fashion statement".

[q335r49]

Craaaave ...

I think the next phase in design should be the 'militant'. People have been throwing functionality, or rather, the appearance of functionality, out the window. Macbooks mostly cater to wussy art school students and teenagers. When they come out with a 'militant' looking laptop, something that just screams simplicity mixed with functionality and efficiency ... like the one above, but more so ... i would be just as spellbound.

"Militant" is just the next phase, after "business". You hear me, HP?

[cafemobility]

oh yes, it's july now and yet nowhere can we see any shadows of HP Mini 5101 in the retail sheleves. do we have the new REVISED release date on this?

[yeomanrycavalry]

Not yet at least. This is the business model netbook and so you won't see these particular models flood the shelves at your local Best Buy or Fry's. You have to either order through Amazon or HP itself. Given the popularity of this netbook I would expect to see more in the coming months.

[yeomanrycavalry]

I purchased mine about 3 weeks ago and love how it weighs less than my previous HP netbook and it looks much nicer than the lesser home versions of the netbook with its ruggedized design per se. What I don't like is the lack of being able to playback realplayer and especially iTunes video files without clipping. Given that netbooks have been out for a while I am really disappointed with video playback even on the most advanced netbooks available. It's really pathetic when a Smartphone can playback the exact video with no problems and yet a newer netbook chokes on it.