HP MINI 210
Price: Rs 19,900
Specs: 10.1" Hp Brightview LED; Intel Atom N2800; 2 GBRAM; 300 GB HDD; Intel Graphics 3150; Bluetooth, 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN,Wi-Fi, memory card reader, 3 USB, 1.4 kg weight.
From certain angles the HP Mini 210 looks like the miniaturemodel of some Italian sports car. The vibrant colours of the body blendseamlessly with the metallic parts, making it a stylish piece of equipment.
The attention to detail in design is also visible with the keyboardwhich doesn't seem to have any missing keys, as with many other netbooks. Wedid find some of the keys, like the 'pg up' and 'pg down' a bit too small, butthen there have been many netbooks which never bothered to include these in thefirst place. The trackpad below is small, as if to make space for the keysabove, and comes with an on/off button.
The 1024x600 native resolution of the 10.1-inch screen makesit good for watching hi-definition video, that is if you don't get distractedby the highway-like bezel around it. Then, just below the screen, the BeatsAudio logo caught our attention. So as the logo will have you believe, theDolbyenhanced sound was exceptionally good, especially since this is a netbook,a breed that isn't supposed to have good sound.
Running on the Intel Atom N2800, we didn't expect thisnetbook to vroom away like the sports car we compared it to earlier. But, thisis by no means a slow worker and can drag itself out of most of the sludge youwill put it through. But remember this is a netbook, just don't tax it toomuch.
An added advantage is the host of connectivity options itbrings along. As if three USB ports weren't enough, there is a VGA and LAN portthrown in for good measure along with a card reader. The Mini 210 can give youeight hours on a full charge.
