Hi guys,

Some of you might remember that I use a laptop in my job. Well, on Thursday I had it upgraded! It's a really good spec now.

It used to be some Pentium M rebrand chip at 1.86GHz, with 512MB of RAM. Now I am running a Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz with 2GB of RAM. Pretty sweet eh? I'm trialling it and making sure that it runs OK as it will soon become a standard spec laptop, or so I hear, and they want to iron out the bugs on a select few people before rolling it out to hundreds.

Nice laptop.

Very nice. What are it's other specs? (HDD and size, mainly)

Well, it has an 80GB HDD (compared to the 40GB I had the last time) and it has a 13.3 inch screen. I would have preferred a lower spec model with a much smaller screen but hey I didn't even ask for this upgrade.

ah, it's still a pretty small laptop. Like you I'd probably prefer a 12" if I was carrying it around a lot.

I like the HP 2133 Mini-Note.

Wow, looks nice, 12"?

No it's an 8.9 inch.

Screen or physical, seeing as the screen is much smaller?

The actual screen is 8.9 inches.

Ah, OK, so probs just a bit smaller than a normal 12" laptop?

Quite a lot smaller actually.

Check out this picture:

Compared to a MacBook Pro 15":

Wow, that's pretty sweet, actually. Bet they cost a fair bit.

They are very cheap!

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/sm ... 25093.html

Wow, that really isn't bad. Should have guessed considering my HP ultraportable (12" tablet) didn't follow the trend of being ridiculously expensive.