HP Mini-Note gets unboxed, causes extreme jealousy

We can't all be as lucky as reader Robert, who's somehow (we suspect by using money) gotten his hands all over a brand new Mini-Note. At least Robert is a kind man, evidenced by the fact that he's sent us some terrific shots of him unboxing his new toy. Check the gallery after the link to see it all go down, photo-style.

Gallery: HP Mini-Note gets unboxed, causes extreme jealousy

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[Andrew @ Apr 17th 2008 9:09AM]

You're right, it does cause jealousy.........so shiny........

[darkstar @ Apr 17th 2008 11:37AM]

make it sub 1 lb and im sold!!!
i love the oqo laptops form factor but not loving their price tags.

[Gaz @ Apr 17th 2008 5:43PM]

Its also made of magnesium alloy I hear, which is a very nice thing to be jealous of. Pretend it has an atom CPU instead of a VIA and all is good. I like the large keyboard :-)

[j_g_puff @ Apr 17th 2008 9:12AM]

Either has giant hands, or that's one very miniature notebook.

[Jeff @ Apr 17th 2008 9:13AM]

Why not both?

[AutoTom @ Apr 17th 2008 9:23AM]

those were mega-hands

[OneLove @ Apr 17th 2008 11:34AM]

...spend some money on hand lotion.

[Chris Anderson @ Apr 17th 2008 9:15AM]

I can't wait to get my sausages on one of these....

[NHAnimator @ Apr 17th 2008 9:20AM]

Thank you for that very disturbing image.

And plural???

[y3k.nik @ Apr 17th 2008 9:20AM]

"sausages"? you sir are either one real lucky man or one real sad one!

[Clasifyd @ Apr 17th 2008 9:23AM]

I believe he was meaning 'fingers'.

Goes to show you who the perverts are. ^_^

[AutoTom @ Apr 17th 2008 9:27AM]

oh come on, he was misleading

[y3k.nik @ Apr 17th 2008 9:29AM]

When was the last time you used the term "sausages" for your fingers?

[tony @ Apr 17th 2008 9:45AM]

Oh real sensitive you guys! Don't you know that Chris Anderson is poor Edward Sausagefingers writing alias?

[NHAnimator @ Apr 17th 2008 11:33AM]

Would that make him Hands Chris Anderson?

[riggs @ Apr 17th 2008 12:41PM]

handsy mchanderson

[Raheem @ Apr 17th 2008 9:15AM]

Turn it on!

[AutoTom @ Apr 17th 2008 9:23AM]

no no no, this notebook doesnt actually turn on it's just for looks..
much like paris hilton

[JJV @ Apr 17th 2008 9:29AM]

what are you talking about? Paris hilton gets turned on by everything.

[Ladderless @ Apr 17th 2008 9:46AM]

That's Hot

[OneLove @ Apr 17th 2008 11:40AM]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8kziSayoqM

[Will Static @ Apr 17th 2008 9:20AM]

Finally showing up on the Canadian HP site... will be an early adopter as usual... can't wait for them to open it up for orders.

[AutoTom @ Apr 17th 2008 9:25AM]

ever notice early adopters ALWAYS get burnt?

i like to buy stuff when its fresh too.. xbox 360.. yeah, i'm on my 2nd.. about to be on my 3rd

hang on..
well anyone who 'adopts' an xbox 360 is going to get burnt

( get it, heat reference )

[Moo2 @ Apr 17th 2008 2:48PM]

@AutoTom
yeah, im on my 4th xbox. this one is getting cd read errors =\

but this laptop looks pretty smexy

[Anthony @ Apr 17th 2008 9:21AM]

Ummm sorry to burst engadgets bubble but these are available to buy on hp's usa website and have for a few weeks now..... this isnt a miracle or someone with a extreme amount cash.... :)

[Dubb @ Apr 17th 2008 9:23AM]

Yea, but people's delivery dates are for Friday. Unless you have some HP-to-you teleporter that I don't know about.

[The Angry Intern @ Apr 17th 2008 11:58AM]

and they reported yesterday that HP missed the ship date for pre-orders (which was supposed to be yesterday) due to some sort of delay that wasn't specified

[Sam Zebian @ Apr 17th 2008 9:24AM]

I'm thinking of getting this or the eeepc... idk which is better yet

[AutoTom @ Apr 17th 2008 9:26AM]

black eee 900 man

[emailtabs @ Apr 17th 2008 12:22PM]

Wait till the summer and the eee'll be getting itself an Atom processor and finally a decent battery life.

Wonder if eeectl will still work!

[Sam Zebian @ Apr 17th 2008 3:54PM]

What the hell is eeectl?

[maff @ Apr 17th 2008 9:22AM]

that trackpad looks majorly wonky!!!

[AutoTom @ Apr 17th 2008 9:26AM]

yeah, he hacked it to be lop sided, best mini-note hack to date.

[Jim D @ Apr 17th 2008 9:27AM]

Soon as the intel version comes out, HP's getting a little piece of my Paycheck. Love the form factor... Not as taken by the Via chip.

[muddyh2o @ Apr 17th 2008 9:28AM]

is this really as excellent as it looks?

will it run leopard? (kidding)

looks like a sweet ubuntu rig...

[benjesuit @ Apr 17th 2008 9:33AM]

Nice pics. Good looking machine. Best wishes with it.

[kris @ Apr 17th 2008 9:35AM]

That trackpad looks goofy. Why is it off-center?

[Phil Perman @ Apr 17th 2008 9:44AM]

So that when your hands are in their natural typing position, they trackpad is under your thumbs, rather than your palm, meaning you don't have to move you hands to use it. A lot of laptops have trackpads like this, function over form and all that

[anthony @ Apr 17th 2008 12:46PM]

@ Phil - you ARE joking right?! I see so many laptops now [if not all!] with off centered trackpads. It irritates the crap out of me that their designers are so lazy that they cant figure out how to center the thing. There's NO reason to have this off centered - especially for this little guy. If I were to put my left hand on this in a "natural typing position" it would lay smack on the left clicker. My assumption is that all these trackpads are located off center to make room for optical and hard drives. Please don't tell me Phil is right and they do this for "FUNCTION".

[Ben L @ Apr 17th 2008 3:26PM]

@anthony

dude, are YOU joking? home typing position: index fingers on F and J, thumbs on the space bar. The track pad is center aligned with those keys.
don't be such a moran!

now the mouse buttons-- i think they sacrificed usability for form factor there, but that's another story...

[Thomas Capriola @ Apr 17th 2008 9:35AM]

Very cool! Thomas Capriola

[bob e @ Apr 17th 2008 9:39AM]

I ordered mine a few days ago and it has still not arrived :<

http://www.hpmini.com

[Matt @ Apr 17th 2008 11:07AM]

Looks very nice indeed. For the price however, I would like to see a little bit better battery life or a slight price drop. Is an Atom version planned? For this sort of device I am going to want at least 6 horus of battery with wifi on to justify the cost.

[drewls @ Apr 17th 2008 9:47AM]

Could Engaget join this century and make it so we don't have to click to an entirely new page with nothing else on it to view the gallery? Since you guys are redesigning things, how about addressing how the gallery usability is teh suck.

[jo3 @ Apr 17th 2008 9:59AM]

tru dat.

[phanbouy @ Apr 17th 2008 5:51PM]

i believe "teh suck" is my meme, thank you very much!

[Dr. Ballon @ Apr 17th 2008 9:49AM]

Looks like the track pad is off-center to line up with the space bar. Makes sense logistically, but aesthetically it could use some work.

[andydaking @ Apr 20th 2008 1:28PM]

Are you blind, what more aesthetic work could they do on this, compare this to the eee

[LongshotX @ Apr 17th 2008 9:49AM]

Can we have the option of switching to a black layout? This website is too white.

[Dan Davis @ Apr 17th 2008 10:06AM]

White is the new black.