Pine Trail-based netbooks with touchscreen from HP

13th January, 2010 by Adina
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The most significant HP unveiling at CES was the update of the Mini netbooks to provide them with Intel’s Pine Trail platform. The flagship of the series is the 10-inch Mini 5102, HP’s first touchscreen netbook. It sports native multi-touch Windows 7, has an aluminium chassis similar to the EliteBooks and also a Broadcom high definition decoder able to process 1,080-pixel video. The netbook is addressed to relative high end. It can come equipped with the unreleased 1.83GHz model and up to 2GB of RAM. The storage can be 320GB and the screen is normally 1,024×600 or even 1,366×768 pixels. The battery life is up to ten hours. Corel Home Office is provided to allow full editing out of the box. The Student Edition includes the Digital School Collection from Adobe, for classroom applications. The price of a Mini 5102 with a 1.66GHz Atom processor, 1GB of RAM and a hard drive of 160GB will be $399 and will be available this month.

Other models are the Mini 210 for home and the Mini 2102 for work. They both have a more familiar design and do not sport touch, but the processor options are the same, as well as the storage picks, although limited to 1GB of RAM, and the Broadcom HD decoder. When it comes to software, this is the distinguishing point as they are provided with a ZumoDrive-based online storage service, an instant-on Linux boot mode and remote media streaming and sync. The more economic of the two systems is the Mini 210 and will cost $299, while the Mini 2102will cost $329, both of them being already available.

Hewlett Packard also included in the presentation a new budget model, the Compaq 102, which runs on a 1.6GHz Atom of a previous generation, the usual 1GB of RAM and a hard drive of 160GB. The company did not give any details about the price or release date for the Compaq system.


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