UK Netbook Review

Netbooked has an unboxing of the new 10.1” HP Mini 110 netbook.  This new netbook from HP/Compaq has a 10.1” 1366 x 768 display, Atom N280 processor, 1GB RAM, 250GB HDD, Windows 7 Starter, 3-cell battery. Peter’s first impressions: – Great, hi-res Matte display. – Annoying touch pad design with but flanked buttons. - Disappointed by the 3 cell battery, [...]

Brad, over at Liliputing, gives us this video unboxing of the HP Mini 311 – rebranded as the Compaq Mini 311C here in the UK.  This 11.6 inch netbook’s biggest claim to fame is it’s hi-res 1366 x 768 pixel screen, and the Nvidia Ion graphics chip to back it up.  It also helps that [...]

With Nvidia Ion LE, the Compaq Mini 311c (known as the HP mini 311 in the States) is already one of the best performing netbooks on the market. However, if you’re still after more performance and don’t mind trading some battery life, head over to the HP Mini Forums where they’ve figured out how to overclock the Atom N270 processor in the 311 to 2.1ghz. But they haven’t stopped there, it’s also reported that they have the Nvidia Ion chipset ramped up to 500mhz. So, how are they doing it? They use Asrock’s OC Tuner utility and make changes to that program’s config file in order to overclock the hardware.

Netbooked has the unboxing video of the new HP Pavilion DM1, which is up for pre-order at Amazon UK for £469.99.  This new CULV processored thin & light has the same chassis at the Compaq Mini 311 but swaps out the Nvidia Ion / Intel Atom combo for Intel’s dual core SU2300 CULV processor and [...]

The new Compaq Mini 311C is a cracker – it boasts Nvidia’s Ion graphics chip and a 11.6-inch 1,366 x 768 , competitively priced at the £349 price point. It’s new here in the UK, but it’s already been selling for some time in the States under the HP brand name. That means we’ve already seen the teardown pictures as well as a guide for turning it into an OSX hackintosh.