Keepin' it real fake: HP Mini 5101 knockoff is almost as good, almost as expensive as the real thing
By Tim Stevens 
posted March 6th 2010 4:13PM
posted March 6th 2010 4:13PM
posted March 6th 2010 4:13PM
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Great Present for mom!
@ashleythehottiest
Queue people that will read that and go: "OH SH*T! Its mothers day next week"...
@sshole
It's May 9.
@peter0328
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women%27s_Day
@sshole
epic name man.
@peter0328
Yeah, in the US. It's the 4th Sunday of Lent in the UK.
@aznofazns lol thanks, tried to get it on twitter.. sadly its taken.
as is ssmaster :(
KIRFs keep getting better..
@sshole anyone notice this is running Windows XP With a vista skin?
@sshole
How can you tell? (I'm being rude, i just don't know how u differentiated that)
it just looks like vista to me.
@kappachinoja
If you look at the task bar, you will see that the Vista "Orb" is cut off at the top; that tells you that it has to be fake. XP is incapable of recreating that faithfully without a third party program.
@SolidSnake OHHH! okay...i didn't even notice that.
Thanks for the explanation. I still cant see it well..but i think i see it.
@kappachinoja Yeah, you can get a little application called the longhorn transformation pack (may have been renamed the vista transformation pack)
No more Super Bowl-style Roman numerals for this feature? ;-)
My dad has one of these hp knockoffs, a older one. Build wise and hardware specs is exactly the same as your standard netbook... just with the bootleg logo heh.
@phuz
I bet this knock off will last longer than an HP one...
I'm making one that will sell for just $336. Beat that.
@Ryanp Mine will be $336 wit a $1 Mail in Rebate. Ha.
Um, you guys forgot to mention that the screen is 11.6 inches instead of the 10 inches on the HP Mini.
If it came in blue id so be all over it! It looks better then the original to me.
I am actually interested in this :D
The red looks nice...very sexy.
I love HP's and if this as close as they say it is...i think i would be very comfortable with it
The lack of its red hue 'lustre' is because the original is covered in the blood of the Origami Killer's victims and this isn't.
given my experiences with HP's quality control, i'd probably pay extra for this one over the real one.
@notatoad I agree with you on that.
but i suppose that extra few dollars make a difference for some.
If you look upside down, it should be "dy", Not a copycat of HP @_@
Buy the $85 Coby, and get a $5 can of candy apple red spray from an auto parts store. Wait, forget I said that, I just had a genius business plan~
Frankly... The real Hp is also MADE IN CHINA ... With probably same/similar components
@sakz
Google "things not made in China". I did a few years ago, and I'm still waiting for results
I like this hahaha
To anyone living in China or Engadget China, I'm just curious, does the government allow clone makers to pass off their knockoffs as the real thing—HP, Apple, Nokia, etc., or do they need to acknowledge that their wares are imitations and not the real think.
The victims there would be the chinese buyers if they think they are buying the expected quality of the real thing if and when something goes wrong with their purchase.
@yrag
The point is that the government doesn't even know these companies exist, hence "shanzai" - "mountain (bandit) stronghold".
Officially, all these companies making knockoffs are illegal (or exploiting legal loopholes, at least), but since the government either doesn't know about them or think they do something else that's legal, rarely anythings gets done.
As for the consumers, just about everyone knows a fake when they see it. The point is that having certain gadgets is a symbol of "status", so people buy fakes to gain the appearance of financial success. Also, the prices of foreign-produced goods are actually higher in China than elsewhere (e.g. 2 months wages for a copy of Windows), so if a cheap knockoff can imitate the functions of the real thing, why not?
oops— I meant "and not the real THING."
I like this better as it has the 11.6 screen and 1366x768 resolution.
You can see it looks better because there isn't that much bezel around the LCD.
If they just put a ULV processor in there, they can price it $100 more and its still cheaper than most 11.6/ulv laptop out there.
Its funny that a knock-off 11.6 notebook is better looking than all 11.6 out there.
@golfreak12
I have a Vaio X. 11.6 inches. You should see one in real life. It shames the Mac Air or adamo.
Given the extreme low quality materials in the low cost HP models, this could in fact be better built. HP makes cases that are good from far and far from.....
Nice reference 2 a videogame