Some good news came today; my Mini-Note has shipped! My order was originally placed back on April 12 and had an estimated ship date of April 18. That day came and went, and after calling HP I was originally told that my order was not going to ship until mid-May, what a bummer, but still I was prepared to wait.
This morning I received the welcomed “Shipment status EMail” from HP. I guess the Mini-Note will be arriving sometime next week. I did not order any special shipping, I just went with the standard shipping, only because after buying the notebook I was feeling cheap. Of course now that I know it’s on the way, I wish I had spent the few extra bucks. Oh well a few extra days will not hurt.
The Mini-Note that I ordered was the higher-spec’d model. The $749 model that features the 1.6GHz Via C7-M processor, 2GB of RAM, 120GB 7200rpm hard drive, built-in Bluetooth, a 6-cell Li-Ion battery and runs Windows Vista Business.
I went with this model, mostly because it had the extra (2GB) RAM, and also the larger battery and built-in Bluetooth. As someone who has used (and still owns) and Eee PC 701 and Everex Cloudbook (running XP) I hope the Mini-Note will be the notebook that I have been looking for.
This website while covering news about the Mini-Note and most likely some of its competition will also focus on my user experience and almost act as a long-term review type of journal.
