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Anyone who wants a low-priced laptop to take to the park on a sunny day.Anyone who’d enjoy having a petite laptop around the house for quick Web searches while watching TV, looking up recipes or grocery shopping online in the kitchen, or quickly checking e-mail and news headlines at the breakfast table.Students who want a small computer for taking notes in class or carrying around campus.Realtors and other professionals who often travel to nearby locations for meetings are also good candidates. Mobile professionals who need an ultra-compact computer for note taking, e-mail, and basic Web searches during meetings.That said, I believe mini-notebooks are worth considering if you fit into one of these categories: They weren’t designed for that role, nor can they fill it. I doubt that anyone, except perhaps a child, would want a mini-notebook as their only computer. Some mini-notebooks such as HP’s 2133 and the Aspire One offer optional, higher-capacity batteries that reportedly last 4 to 6 hours. In my informal tests, the Acer Aspire One’s standard three-cell battery lasted only 1 hour and 45 minutes (with the screen’s brightness level at 100 percent and Wi-Fi turned on).
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PC World testers have gotten about 2.5 to 3.5 hours on a charge, depending on the model. You’d think such a small, unambitious computer could go forever before its battery expired.
And their small screens (7 to 10 inches) can tire your eyes after an hour or so. Depending on the model, a mini-notebook’s keyboard may be too small for big-fingered touch typists.
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Because mini-notebooks lack optical drives, watching a DVD movie on a long plane ride is out of the question. For example, YouTube video playback can be frustratingly stop-and-go as the low-level processor and modest system memory struggle to meet streaming video’s demands. Unlike a general-purpose laptop, a mini-notebook comes with compromises. Prices for the top of HP’s 2133 line, a model with Windows Vista, recently started at $719 online. But be aware that high-end models can cost a good deal more. The majority of mini-notebooks fall somewhere between $350 and $500. The 2GB version of the Linux-based Asus Eee PC was recently selling for as little as $250. Some mini-notebooks don’t cost much, as laptops go. The OQO Model 02 was recently available online for $1785 and up. And compared to mini-notebooks, handheld PCs can be quite expensive. While these are fully functioning Windows machines, their keyboards are closer to what you’d find on a BlackBerry than on a laptop. But they typically only offer on-screen keyboards.Ī few ultra-ultra-small computers, such as handheld PCs from OQO, are extremely tiny.
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More recently, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs) from Samsung and others offer super-light and portable designs. You can read about my experiences using Windows CE laptops in “Handheld PC Redux,” Part 1 and Part 2. Also, the Windows CE laptops were quite expensive, usually around $1000. You couldn’t load standard Windows programs on them. But those systems ran a version of the Windows CE operating system, making them, in essence, oversized PDAs. By comparison, Hewlett-Packard, NEC, IBM, and other makers sold devices during the late 90s that were similar in size to today’s mini-notebooks.
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