HP mini 2140 HD REVIEW

NetbookNews.in has done a pretty decent review of the HP 2140 HD, which is ‘successor’ of the HP mini 2140 that comes with a 1024 x 576. The HP 2140 HD comes with a rather high 1366 x 768 which means that you will able to see a lot of text on that little screen. [...]

6-cell battery for HP 2140 –a must have!

One fellow member at myhpmini forums has bought a 6-cell battery for his HP mini 2140 off ebay and he has been able to get pretty decent battery life from it. He used USB mobile broadband card in 2140 all the time and kept his netbook in  power saving mode to get nearly 5-6 hours of battery life from it. No doubt, he recommends the 6-cell battery to everyone.

It makes me wonder why some manufactures are still shipping netbooks with 3-cell batteries which are not able to give you more than 2 hours of active usage. My EEE 1000H came with a 6-cell 6600mAh battery and I am able to get nearly 5.5 hours in Vista with mobile broadband on at all the time.

You can get a 6-cell battery for the HP Mini 2140 from HERE. They ship worldwide

HP phases out Mini 2140 and Mini 2140 HD – new model coming soon?

HP Mini 2140 and 2140HD have both disappeared from the HP Mini store. HP Mini 2140 was launched in January and HP promised an HD version which was launched just a month back. Their sudden disappearance means only one thing: New models launching soon

If in case that does not happens, then we will be left with just HP Mini 110 and HP Mini 1101, both of which use plastic chassis and not aluminum one.

Bad News for UK visitors: No HP Mini 2140 HD for UK

HP Mini 2140 is a great netbook, but suffers from low (vertical) resolution problem. A lot of times, dialog boxes of XP are not able to fit as there are only 576 pixels vertically. To address this problem, HP announced HD version of the 2140 which would come with much higher resolution, 1366 x 768. Although, HP plans to launch it in most of the countries, it won’t be launched in UK.

Fortunately, there are a lot of options for the netbooks buyers. If you plan to do only web-surfing and some office work, then I will recommend you to give a try to Acer Aspire 751H, which comes with an 11.6-inch display and fantastic resolution of 1366 x 768. You can read its review here

New BIOS for HP Mininote 2140 (F.03)

HP has released a new BIOS for the HP 2140 netbook. It can be downloaded from the following link. It fixes the following:

Fixes an issue where a powered-off notebook/laptop can be powered on through Wake-on-LAN, even though the “Wake On LAN” option is disabled in the F10 Setup

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HP MINI 2140 HD pictures

HP recently released the 1366 x 768 resolution version of HP Mini 2140. The high resolution as expected, gives better options for web browsing, photo editing, etc.

Personally, this resolution is much better than 1024 x 568 pixels that come with the non-HD version of HP 2140.

HP Mini 2140 HD release date

We all know when the HP mini 2140 was unveiled, HP promised that 2140 will come in 2 resolutions: one is 1024 x 576 and other 1366 x 768, where the latter has not been released yet and only the lower resolution version was made available. A person over hpminiforums contacted HP about the release date of the HD version and they have told him that the final release date of the higher resolution and it is April 6.

PDAir leather case for HP 2140 mininote released

I’ve been informed by the folks at PDAir that they have released a leather case for the new HP 2140 mininote PC. The leather case costs just $58+free shipping.

Click here to get it

A 6-cell battery version is also available.

NOTE: The case also fits HP 2133 nicely.

Getting a HP 2100 series netbook? Get a 6-cell battery for just $25 instead of $129! [Netbook]

Is not it odd, when you hear the netbook manufactures costing you a bomb when you want higher capacities battery for your beloved netbook? Quite a lot of times, you end up paying almost 1/4th of the actual price of the whole netbook when purchasing an extended battery. Take the example of the HP Mini [...]

HP mini 2140 can now be ordered – No SSD option, No Linux option [Netbook]

The HP Mini 2140 is now available for order on HP’s website. There are 7 different variations to choose from with the minimum starting at $499 and going up to $779 for the top-end model. Interestingly, HP is no more offering an SSD version for the HP mini 2140. There is no linux option too. [...]