HP Mini 311 on sale!

Nice , might want to look at the acer 1

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/15691/71/

radeon hd 3200 with 384 megs of dedicated ram and up to 2gigs of shared memory would make for a fast system. It has two dimm slots so you could really do 4x4 and get 8 gigs of ram.

5 hours on a 6 cell.

Hook up an XGP with a dx 11 radeon 5x00 to the unit for some gaming ? Might be a good investment if it comes with the xgp
450pounds might be a bit much , but if they can bring it to the states without the ferrari crap at $400 it be a good run for the mini 311's money.

there is some video here
http://www.notebooks.com/2009/09/14/acer-ferrari-one-netbook-on-video/

 

um... the ASUS N10j has a Nvidia Geforce 9300m GS w/ 256 dedicated ram. enough said there.

ASUS N10J-A2
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220386

 

Just post images of your net-book. Give us the real answer on RAM dilemma too . I was going to order mine, but i figure i will wait and see what you guys have to say about it.

 

I'm still interested in this. I'm planning on getting one for me and my sister. Its mainly for productivity (Office, Photoshop, etc) and as a companion for our laptops. Only reason why I held off on a netbook was because of Flash support, and watching movies and anime. I figured having the Ion GPU would help out. Also it wouldn't hurt to do light gaming on it (My laptop does a decent job of running games I play).

 

There is a newer N10 with the G105.

 

Sorry i'm kind of late to the game. I too ordered mine on the sept. 23rd with standard 5-7 day shipping. I received an email saying the item had shipped on sept. 30th. fed ex just picked up the package yesterday with an estimated delivery of oct 12th. I will be requesting a shipping refund if i don't have it by oct. 9th. This is completely unacceptable. Where has my $500 machine been for the last five days? Not on it's way to me that's for sure.

 

mine is out for delivery today....2 days ahead of estimated time...guess living near a DC Airport has some advantages...

hope someone will sign for it at home...though I'm not sure I am going to open it up...have to look in towards the return policy before I do

 

It was until I saw that you were actually going to attempt to defend your statement instead of simply resorting to name calling.

And that's fine if you don't want to talk to me -- doesn't hurt my feelings

 

Mine is out for delivery as well. Fedex has always been a good shipper, with the exception of their 'ground' service, which is essentially contracters. I won't know much about it until tonight when I get home from work. Maybe one of the other guys can fill us in should be be able to open it up before I do.

 

YOU $)(*$# well. grats. hmm when i first check mine said est delivery date 9th, now it says 12th. so im going to write the BBB if i do not get it by friday. Also I spoke to CS and they said that even though it does not work on the site we will get a free upgrade to windows 7 i think she was wrong .. but we can use it to try to get somthing out of them for doing this to us.

 

I ordered the n270 because the n280 is not overclockable. or at least it sucks at it. While i dont plan on superclocking i would like it to run at 1.9 an bump up the FSB. I had the asus n10j and the screen ruins it. Im sorry but in todays world 1024*768 just doesnt cut it anymore

 

The N10J was ruined for me by the bezel. They could have fit a 11.6" screen in there instead of the 10" they did. It looks funny and cheap because of that.

 

My mini 311 came in at 10:30 this morning on the dot. I havent gotten to do much yet but I do have an answer for you all.

I opened up the bottom to check what was inside and yes the ram slot is empty! The 1GB is soldered on.

There is also a mini PCI-express slot that is empty because I didnt want the broadband card. Perfect fit for a SSD drive.

Heres a couple pics to show you whats going on.

 

quick question, is the empty DIMM slot at the bottom connected? or disconnect like someone said it might be?

 

Looks connected to me.

 

NICE. Would it be wiser to go with a 1GB RAM for dual-channel (1GB + 1GB), or should I go with a 2GB (2GB + 1GB)?

 

AWSOME MAN CONGRATS>
DOES this mean that we can add 2gb more. or just confirms that its there. do you plan on testing the dimm.

 

It depends if the chipset supports dual channel or not. It also depends if it is memory bandwidth starved in its current form.

The only way to know this will be to test it... I *might* test this, it just means a trip to microcenter.

 

do we know the ram speed or we are just speculating of standard 1033. future can you run CPUZ

 

mines still in alaska :-(
Oct 6, 2009 1:16 AMArrived at FedEx locationANCHORAGE, AK
Oct 6, 2009 2:43 AMPicked upSHANGHAI CNPackage received after FedEx cutoff
Oct 6, 2009 2:26 AMIn transitSHANGHAI CN

 

Here are the cpu-z images for cpu/memory/graphics.

 

You are the man! Thanks man for the confirmation on RAM. Now i am wondering should i order mine now or should i wait and see if HP do some thing new with it... GRRRRRR dam double mindedness LOL

 

So it is dual channel supported. Thats great,""thanks Future

im retarted....
333mhz * 4 = 1333hmz ddr3

 

I am upping to windows 7 when I get my machine, so I am just gonna stick in another 2 GB since I believe it'll go faster than dual channel. (From just personal experience with Win7 placing a large portion of RAM on standby)

still wanna see someone shove a 2 gb stick in the extra RAM slot to make sure its wired up

 

I know ... watch hp put the dimm but its non functioning.

 

Thanks a lot Futureperfect for the confirmation on the RAM slot !!

 

I am not certain of this... It depends on the way CPU-Z reports. I have a feeling it is running at 666 instead of 1333. I hope I am wrong... Only reason I think I am wrong is because I checked the scores with my DDR3 in my desktop system and it shows at 800Mhz, and it is really running at 1600Mhz, which means 800 x 4 = 3200Mhz, not the case... So again, I have a feeling this memory is only running at 666Mhz.

 

i thought that too i got like 19999 cause it said cpu multiplier 6x which would yeild 20000mhz... no way so i did some searching on google and found it is roughly 1333 we would get 666 or a lil more cause its showing cpu current speed 10000 mhz

 

Anyone tried any games yet to stress the GPU? I've seen the Laptop Mag report already. I wonder if it can run Half-Life 2 at native resolution.

 

LaptopMag Review

 

Nice review, though that boot time looks scary. They said it took them 1 minute and 44 seconds to boot Windows XP.

 

It's only got 1GB of RAM, so that doesn't surprise me. Still not good, though. Wonder what 7's boot time will be.

The netbook average is 55 seconds though? Hmmm...

 

I have an SSD waiting to go in mine, provided HP has the drivers posted on their website, or it comes with a CD.

 

No CD, No Flashdrive.

 

Someone test the other DIMM slot yet?

contemplating going to microcenter for another stick of RAM tomorrow

EDIT: Not gonna really do anything with my machine yet...till someone hopefully makes sure the other dimm slot works, then ill install windows 7 and hope everything plays nice

 

dont have a stick to test it with. I have no doubt its going to work due to dual channel ram being enabled. If it doesnt then im using my 21 day return policy.

 

how about heat and fan noise plz???? this being Hp......

 

http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptop/hp-mini-311.aspx?page=3


HP says "Everything is perfect in every way with every machine ever built by us. There is no fan noise and this unit doesnt produce any heat. In fact, it will last your whole life and never have an issue."

 

Trying to get this SSD installed... Hehe, this thing is being a major pain. Attempting to use WinSetupFromUSB 0.1.1 and am getting the lovely hal.dll is missing... Hmm, attempting to recopy the I386 information back to the flash drive and will keep trying.

I did try LOTRO, but because HP loaded this up with some crapware (Norton) it ran choppy. I believe it was due to the constant loading and unloading of the textures.

I am hoping with a good clean SSD install, and another 1-2GB in here that I will be able to report back with some good news. But for now, getting this SSD installed is being a pain.

 

let me know how the ram installation goes...not sure if an SSD is really necessary, seems a little overkill if you ask me

 

wait.....you got yours.... so who got there where are you guys located. I guess east coast is last.

 

second day shipping, Washington DC area....ordered at Sep 23rd at 7AM Est

 

Mainly for use with LOTRO. LOTRO does a ton of texture loading and unloading, more so than any other game. I used this SSD as my app drive for my desktop, but am more than willing to use it in my netbook.

 

let me know how it plays.

All ready to order on the 22nd if this thing works well.

Are you going to put in more ram ?

 

I love to know more about the quality of the screen from anyone who has the machine already... Does it have light leakage, how are the colors/brightness, overall are you happy with it? I have a sony 13.3 laptop with a LED screen and it's amazing.. the only bad thing is the resolution to size ratio..

 

Saint Paul, Minnesota. I paid for two day Fedex. Nice thing about Fedex is that delivery early if they can. They don't wait like UPS to deliver on the day. I suppose there are disadvantages to that though, such as scheduling time off of work to sign for a package or something.

 

I did the 5-7 cause damn 30 was enough for me. But i ordered 23rd as well and my expected date is 12..that sucks .well grats guys anyway.

 

Have not used it enough to give an honest opinion yet. But I will let you know. First impressions are good though.

 

The 720p video was slightly choppy during fast moments when I first got the netbook. After removing Norton and disabling most of the startup programs and doing windows update the video runs smoothly. Also installed K-Lite for better codecs.

Video testing with is WOWX3-Cataclysm_Trailer_enUS_ESRB.avi



Installing COD4 atm.

 

More on screen and keyboard quality
oh, and fun noise too