HP Mini 2140 Review

“That gets you a Mini 2140 with the abovementioned 160GB hard
disk, Windows XP Home Edition, and the same Atom N270 processor
seen in nearly every netbook at your local electronics outlet — a
1.6GHz single-core chip (well, one-and-a-half-core for applications
that can take advantage of Intel’s Hyper-Threading Technology) with
512K of Level 2 cache.

“One gigabyte of DDR2 memory is standard; the system maximum of
2GB is a $50 option, and also requires a change from Win XP Home to
another operating system — HP offers Windows Vista, Vista with a
“downgrade” to Windows XP Professional, and SUSE Linux Enterprise
Desktop 10. The McAfee online security suite and trial version of
Microsoft Office 2007 are preinstalled.

“On the HP’s left side you’ll find microphone and headphone
jacks, a USB 2.0 port, and a VGA connector for an external monitor.
A second USB port is at the right, along with an Ethernet jack and
Secure Digital and ExpressCard/54 slots — the former for a flash
memory card, the latter just right for a wireless broadband add-in.
That’s not to say the 2140 doesn’t have wireless chops of its own
— Broadcom’s 802.11a/b/g/draft-n adapter covers every WiFi
variation, and Bluetooth is built in as well.”

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