HP MININOTE 2140 PORTABLE
That said, it’s still a pricey portable (well, pricey as far as netbooks go) that can’t run programs other netbooks can.Īt least the 2140 wins back points by lasting almost seven hours on one charge. Otherwise, they pretty much have the same, exact guts as high-flying netbooks that rank better on the charts. Understand that the reason these netbooks score lower is usually due to the fact that their odd-sized screens (and native resolutions) can’t run some of our benchmark programs. The only other netbook that’s scored as low was the equally poor-performing Dell Inspiron Mini 9. The metallic mini-note kept running into issues with Photoshop and as a result of only netted a score of 26. While the 2140 has all the right moves looks-wise, it stumbled a little in WorldBench 6. Even then, the Mini 2140 is smaller and less expensive than the Asus N10Jc. For an extra $30, you can bump up the configuration (as we did) to include a six-cell battery, or you can cough up the maximum $629 asking price for a three-cell unit that has 2GB of memory and a 7200-rpm, 160GB hard drive.
HP MININOTE 2140 WINDOWS
The base-level, $499 version of the 2140 comes with Intel’s Atom 1.6-GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive (which spins at 5400 rpm), a three-cell battery, and Windows XP. The 2140 has a few other things in common with the Mini 1000–and with the rest of the netbook market. But at least the mouse buttons on the 2140 are rubberized and rise above the surface, improving the mouse’s manageability.
The mouse configuration remains the same, too: The right and left mouse buttons flank the mousing surface instead of sitting below it, which makes navigating and editing documents more difficult. Hopefully this will help others that might face the same issues in future.Like the Mini 1000, the Mini 2140 has a fairly large keyboard (92% the size of a full-size QWERTY keyboard) with wide, flat buttons.
HP MININOTE 2140 WINDOWS 7
After the restore, I used the Windows 7 Disk Management tool to expand the size of the partition back up to the maximum on this disk of 120GB. This time when I attempted to restore it, it went through just fine. I then performed another image backup with the Windows 7 backup tool to USB hard drive. I used the disk management console to Shrink the partition of Windows 7 from 160GB down to 85GB. I reasoned that if the issue was that the image was too large (being a 160GB image) that if I used Windows 7 to Shrink the partition, it might work. Other people had used third party imaging tools to do the job. In my case I was going from a 160GB SATA drive to a 120GB SSD drive. Windows Image backup from Vista, or Windows 7 will not allow you to restore to a smaller hard drive. Investigation showed that the issue was not quite what it seemed. Try the following: (0x80042412)"īasically it says that it can not find a disk to recover to. "No disk that can be used for recovering the system disk can be found. I selected the Repair Computer option and then started to restore from the USB hard drive until I got this error below I replaced the 160GB SATA drive with a 120GB SSD drive and booted from a USB DVD drive with the Windows 7 DVD in it. I used the Windows 7 Backup program to do a complete backup of the hard drive to an external USB drive. I figured this would be better for me as it reduces the chances of a head crash given I carry it everywhere whilst it’s still running. My only concern is that given I am using it so much, I wanted to replace the 160G SATA Hard Drive with an SSD drive. My HP MiniNote 2140 which I got from TechEd Australia is actually a pretty impressive little machine.
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