Quote Originally Posted by baker123 View Post
had an hp mininote for a week. sold it after.

problem was the screen is to small and the fonts are smaller due to the 1024x768 screen resolution on a small lcd screen. gives me a headache after an hour of use.

2nd was the keyboard, its way too small. cant always press the right shift key without looking at it first. 3rd was the processing speed is too slow. it has the via cpu. not sure how the intel atom performs.

for video playback. dont multi task. it will degrade the performance and will show the video going frame by frame with lines hehehe


and oh yea. with just under and hour and a half of battery time, it sucks big time. even when i minimize the brightness setting.

i think its ok for student use. except when doing some presentation heavy stuffs.
The early Via CPU based HP mini was kinda slow as compared to newer Atom based netbooks.

Video playback, with my previous and current netbooks, both Atom cpu based, playback were very good even with more than one application running. It is possible you were using MS' mediaplayer which is very inefficient. 3rd party video and audio playback software are much better. Also I upgraded my netbook's to their max memory (Acer Aspire One = 1.5gig and MSi Wind U100 = 2gig) which helps in keeping performance high.

As for the battery, you can't really expect much endurance from a 3 cell battery. Getting a six or even nine cell battery gives a more usable battery life to any netbook. My aftermarket nine cell battery can last 7 hours ... probably under six hours if I was watching movies and videos with the screen set at 50% brightness.