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Sprint first to offer a 99-cent netbook, but is it worth it?
We knew we'd see cheap / free subsidized netbooks eventually, and here we are: Best Buy and Sprint are offering up a Compaq-branded HP Mini 110c for just 99 cents when you sign a two-year data contract. Yeah, it looks good on paper, especially since AT&T and Verizon will ding you $199 for the same machine, but we just don't think it's worth it: at $60 a month for service, you'll be spending $1,440 for two years of pain with that 1.6GHz Atom, 1GB of RAM and three-cell battery. We'd say you're way better off grabbing a 3G USB stick you can use with multiple machines, or, if you're feeling particularly baller, throwing down for a MiFi and kicking it mobile hotspot style -- it'll cost the same $60 a month from Sprint, but you'll be able to get five machines online at once. But that's just us -- any of you particularly hot for this almost-free netbook?[Via jkOnTheRun]
Specs for HP's Mini 1100 pop up, ExpressCard/54 slot is a go Update: maybe not
Looks like HP's web monkeys are filling in the product pages for those unannounced Mini 1100s we spotted earlier -- spec pages for the 1133CL, 1135NR, 1140NR and 1141NR have been posted, and those rumors of an ExpressCard/54 slot are apparently true. It sounds like the 1141NR is the Vivienne Tam edition -- it comes with a "Vivienne Tam sleeve" -- but apart from that and Bluetooth in the 1135NR and 1140NR, they've all got the same 10.1-inch 1024 x 576 display, 1.6GHz Atom N270, 1GB RAM, 60GB drive, and three-cell battery. No idea why HP's got so many different confusing model numbers for what seems like the exact same product, but we're guessing we'll find out more soon -- hopefully there's a bit more sense behind this silliness than with the Eee alphabet soup.Update: HP's told Lilliputing that the ExpressCard listing is a mistake and that the 1100s are just minor variations on the 1000s, but the entries are all still up with no changes. Guess we'll wait and see when these things go official. [Thanks, Ricardo] Read - 1133CL Read - 1135NR Read - 1140NR Read - 1141NR
HP Mini 1100-series netbooks turn up on HP's website, details do not
We just heard the other day that HP may have some new Mini netbooks in the works, and it looks like HP itself has now stoked the speculation a bit further, with a whole slew of Mini 1100-series models making an appearance in support documents on the company's website. Those include the HP Mini 1110NR, Mini 1111NR, Mini 1120NR, Mini 1125NR, Mini 1130NR, Mini 1133CL, Mini 1135NR, Mini 1136NR and the Mini 1141NR, plus a Vivienne Tam edition Mini 1140NR model. Unfortunately, there aren't any details to speak of, but there's apparently some talk that they'll all at least come equipped with an ExpressCard slot. Let's just hope HP doesn't go too far off the deep end and start releasing new Minis every other week like a certain other manufacturEeer.[Via SlashGear]
