HP Home & Home Office has now made available the 11.6” Mini 311 notebook and 10.1” HP Mini 110 netbooks with Windows 7.
For the HP Mini 311, upgrading to Windows 7 Home Premium from XP Home is a $50 upgrade. For the HP Mini 110 series, the upgrade from XP Home to Windows 7 Starter costs $30. You can also upgrade to a 250GB HDD if you choose Windows 7 Starter.
There’s also the HP Mini 110 Tord Boontje Edition which only ships with Windows 7 Starter.
There’s also a whole other bunch of HP products with Windows 7. No sign of the 11.6” HP Pavilion DM1 though…
The HP Mini 311 (or Compaq Mini 311C in Europe) comes with 1GB of RAM soldered to the motherboard. At first glance, that might make this NVIDIA ION-powered laptop a bit less attractive, since it somewhat limits your upgrade options. But Blogeee reports there’s good news: There is another RAM slot that users can take advantage of to upgrade the RAM.
All you have to do is pop open the back and slide in a 2GB module to upgrade the memory to 3GB.
That makes the HP Mini 311 one of the most versatile low cost 11.6 inch mini-laptops around thanks to its low power Atom processor, 6 hour battery life, NVIDIA ION graphics, and even Hackintoshability.
September 18th, 2009
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HP announced today its intent to release an 11.6-inch netbook featuring the Nvidia ION chipset. The netbook will be known as the HP Mini 311.
This is the largest HP netbook to date. The Nvidia ION will really be able to work its magic on this machine, which has a 1366 x 768 pixel LED display.
Nvidia has stated before just what the ION has to add to the netbook world:
“By processing data-intensive applications in parallel with the CPU, ION-based Netbooks offer many of the same capabilities of full-sized notebooks including support for all versions of Microsoft Windows.”
We’ll be on the lookout for more info concerning the HP Mini 311 netbook, so check back soon.