HP includes the Corel Home Office software instead of the usual Microsoft Office trial version, but we're not sure why it's been chosen as an alternative rather than the free OpenOffice suite. HP also includes a fairly standard feature of full-size business laptops -- a hard-drive accelerometer called, in this case, HP 3D DriveGuard.
Performance caveats
Intel's new single-core, 1.66GHz Atom N450 CPU is the latest standard for netbooks, and, while it doesn't really offer any performance improvement over the previous-generation Atom N270 and N280 processors, it does deliver greater power efficiency. Our standard admonitions about netbook performance apply -- keep your expectations modest, and stick mostly to Web surfing, emailing and working on office documents.
The 5102 ran for 3 hours and 19 minutes in our video-playback battery-drain test. That's not in the upper echelons of netbook-battery scores, but certainly enough for most on-the-go tasks, especially as the system should last significantly longer with casual use. An optional six-cell battery should push you closer to the 6-hour mark.
(Shorter bars indicate better performance)
(Shorter bars indicate better performance)
(Shorter bars indicate better performance)
(Longer bars indicate better performance)
Conclusion
With the competition regularly offering HD displays and Nvidia Ion
graphics for very reasonable prices, we would have liked to see HP make
some bolder steps with the Mini 5102. As it is, this sequel to one of
our favourite 2009 netbooks feels like just that - -a 2009 netbook.
Additional editing by Charles Kloet
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angry potato 4 March 2010
Good: sturdy build quality, great keyboard,great finish
Bad: design a bit less sleek than competition,easily picks up fingerprints on touchpad and rubber hand rest
Comment: Overall I am really pleased with this netbook - it certainly has a solid feel about it and the HP software/hardware combo to secure the HDD against shock is a plus for the pro user. Battery life is very good and it has what you need without some of the more useless buttons on many net/laptops that are rarely used and get in the way.
For the professional user this is worth the money.
The finish and performance is the best I have seen on a laptop for a while.
exceldigital 25 February 2010
Good: sharp
Bad: color
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