HP's designer Mini 110 pushes the Netbook aesthetic

by Stevie Smith - Sep 15 2009, 16:30

Having already fired a luxurious notebook volley in the general direction of Apple’s desirable upper-tier MacBook line, PC manufacturing titan Hewlett-Packard (HP) has also turned its hardware sights towards the other end of the market with its new designer Mini 110.

While the Mini 110 might slide into the Netbook crowd as ‘just another cheap ultra portable’ when measuring its technical abilities, HP’s latest slice of budget computing is accented by a flowery chassis design crafted by Tord Boontje.

According to HP, the sexy aesthetic is achieved by layering ink directly into the Mini 110’s polycarbonate lid and also across its palm rest, which provides a three-dimensional effect that hides a host of swirling patterns.

The Tord Boontje edition Mini 110 will run on the 32-bit version of Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 7 operating system and, when it arrives later in the third quarter, will be attached to a thoroughly Netbook-esque price tag of $399 USD.

Other contributing technical aspects attributed to the Mini 110 include a 10.1-inch LCD screen, a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, 1GB of RAM, a 92 percent keyboard, VGA-out, an Ethernet port, a multi-card reader, a headphone jack and a built-in Web camera.

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