Pink Laptops World

A mini laptop (also known as a subnotebook or netbook) has a 10.2″ or smaller screen size, weigh less than 4 lbs and is usually priced somewhere in the $200-$400 range.

These tiny computers are obviously much easier than their larger siblings to take along just about anywhere, but they’re not for everyone. In order to make the mini laptops so small and light, features such as an internal CD/DVD drive are often left out, and you won’t be able to do any heavy gaming, graphic design or image editing on them, because of the smaller, slower hard drives and memory (”RAM”) as well as integrated graphics cards (as opposed to “discreet”, i.e. separate from the CPU).

Having said that, they’re still great for those who need an inexpensive mini notebook to take to class, on the road, or mainly use their laptop for word processing, email and internet browsing. And if you  need more space, you can always add an external harddrive.

So who makes pink mini laptops? Quite a few companies. With their increasing popularity (and advancements in technology), more and more are popping up on the market all the time.

Here are the ones currently available in pink (in alphabetical order by company):

• Acer Aspire One A150
• Asus Eee PC 1005HA
• Asus Eee PC 1008HA
• Dell Mini 10
• Dell Mini 10v
• HP Mini 110 XP
• Lenovo IdeaPad S10
• Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2
• MSI Wind U100-018US
• MSI Wind U100-280US
• MSI Wind U100-427US
• Samsung NC10
• Sony VAIO W
• Sylvania G Netbook Meso
• Toshiba Mini NB205-N313P

As far as the specs, they are all very similar and pretty clear cut, with few customization options. The notable exceptions to that are HP’s Mini 100XP and Dell’s 10 and 10v (click for full specs).

They all come with Windows XP Home and 1GB of RAM.

Most have a 160GB hard drive, the exceptions are Dell’s Mini 10v with 120GB (but you can upgrade it to 160GB or to a 16GB Solid State Drive), HP’s Mini 110 XP with a 16GB Solid State Drive (with upgrade options to a 32GB SSD or 160GB SATA), and Sylvania’s G Netbook Meso with 80GB. Dell’s Mini 10 can be upgraded to 250GB or a 32GB Solid State Drive.

Intel Atom N270 (1.60GHz, 512KB L2, 533Mhz FSB)
Acer Aspire One A150
Dell Mini 10v
HP Mini 110 XP
Lenovo IdeaPad S10
Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2
MSI Wind U100-018US
MSI Wind U100-280US
MSI Wind U100-427US
Samsung NC10
Sylvania G Netbook Meso

Intel Atom N280 (1.66GHz, 512KB L2, 667Mhz FSB)
Asus Eee PC 1005HA
Asus Eee PC 1008HA
Sony VAIO W
Toshiba Mini NB205-N313P

Dell’s Mini 10 has an Intel Atom Z520 (1.33GHz/533MHz FSB/512K L2Cache) which you are able to upgrade to an Intel Atom Z530 (1.6GHz/533MHz FSB/512K Cache).

You can also upgrade Dell’s Mini 10v and HP’s Mini 110 XP to Intel Atom N280.

All come with an Intel GMA 950 except for the Dell Mini 10 which has an Intel GMA 500.

None has an internal CD/DVD drive.

3-cell Li-Ion
Acer Aspire One A150
Asus Eee PC 1005HA
Dell Mini 10 (optional 6-cell)
Dell Mini 10v (optional 6-cell)
HP Mini 110 XP (optional 6-cell)
Lenovo IdeaPad S10
MSI Wind U100-018US
MSI Wind U100-427US

4-cell Li-Ion
Sylvania G Netbook Meso

6-cell Li-Ion
Asus Eee PC 1008HA
Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2
MSI Wind U100-280US
Samsung NC10
Toshiba Mini NB205-N313P

Sony does not give you a number of cells, they describe their VAIO W battery as “standard capacity” and claim it lasts up to 3 hours.

8.9″
Acer Aspire One A150
Sylvania G Netbook Meso

10.0″
MSI Wind U100-018US
MSI Wind U100-280US
MSI Wind U100-427US

10.1″
Asus Eee PC 1005HA
Asus Eee PC 1008HA
Dell Mini 10
Dell Mini 10v
HP Mini 110 XP
Lenovo IdeaPad S10
Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2
Sony VAIO W
Toshiba Mini NB205-N313P

10.2″
Samsung NC10

In the interest of saving space, we’ll just list the lightest and heaviest here (the others fall in between)

Lightest
A tie between the Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2 and Sylvania’s G Netbook Meso, both at 2.2 lbs.

Heaviest
Toshiba Mini NB205-N313P at 2.93 lbs.

Again, we’ll just list smallest and largest here:
Smallest
Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2 at 9.8×7.2×0.7″

Largest
Sony VAIO W at 10.5×7.1×1.3″.

As you can see, all these mini laptops are pretty similar. If you’re looking for the smallest and lightest laptop available (in pink), the Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2 is the way to go. Asus and Toshiba get high marks for battery life, and the Champagne Pink MSI Wind U100-018US and HP’s “Pink Chic” Mini 110 XP (a dusty pink with pink and white flowers) win in the looks department (in my opinion at least).

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