6 months ago, I re-contracted Starhub for the HP Mini-note 2133, at that time, I already had the intentions to get a netbook and was seriously considering the many iterations of the eeePC. The Mini 2133 then was really quite crappy, with a slow processor, overheating problems and poor battery life. With all this things going against it, I quickly sold it for $710. Only recently, Starhub started to offer the newer model, the mini 1000 as part of their recontract goodies and that got me interested. I sourced for one of them through the HWZ forums and found a buyer selling it for guess what, $710 too. The mini 1000 is much better than the older 2133. It is lighter, faster and comes with an internal 3G modem, allowing me to put to good use my free 3G sim card from Starhub. Evidence of the portability was tried and tested today as I connected to the net from various places in Singapore. I was supposed to help the gf with her flight check in details but totally forgot about it till I received a reminder sms and thanks to the new netbook, was able to settle the flight arrangements when outside. Of course, not everything is perfect. The mini 1000 does not have a great battery life, clocking in ard 2-3 hrs but that should be sufficient for short bouts.

Oh well, just the usual dosage of geekiness…