HP Compaq Mini 311c-1010SA Intel Atom N270 ION 11.6" Netbook @ £314.99 inc VAT

molinari · 20 Oct 2009 at 12:54

Tinders said:
Does anyone know if this will play any basic games such as Football manager 2009? and whats the battery life like 3 hours plus?

I'd like to know more info on this as well. Football Manager is CPU intensive so I guess it will run but not particularly well. I think I'll end up getting an Asus Timeline 3810 which has a Core 2 Solo CPU. Compared to the Atom, it's a better CPU and should cope a bit better with Football Manager.

Tinders · 20 Oct 2009 at 13:07

Yes but that acer is close to £200 more than this HP, id rather go for something like a DELL m1330 if i had that amount of moolah

TechnoCorruption · 20 Oct 2009 at 13:13

molinari said:
I'd like to know more info on this as well. Football Manager is CPU intensive so I guess it will run but not particularly well. I think I'll end up getting an Asus Timeline 3810 which has a Core 2 Solo CPU. Compared to the Atom, it's a better CPU and should cope a bit better with Football Manager.

I have just bought a similar laptop (PB Butterfly) and it is faster than the NC20 I used to have, the NC20 was using a via chip which was around level performance with the atom.

The Core 2 Solo is 800FSB, 3MB cache and 1.4GHz (1.2GHz idle), it is faster than an atom but I wouldn't be expecting loads of performance, it's still a single core 1.4GHz at the end of the day.

That said though, I can play Quake 3 real nice on it and can play HL2 on low/medium settings, something that was not happening on the NC20. I can also watch 720p video as long as it has been downloaded and played in media player, though the Core 2 Solo still isn't powerful enough to run Youtube HD without some frame skipping.

The Running Man · 20 Oct 2009 at 13:22

what happenbed to amd dual core mobile cpu!?

Founder_film · 20 Oct 2009 at 13:44

Nickg said:
what happenbed to amd dual core mobile cpu!?

Check out the Packard Bell Dot M/A and also the new Acer Ferrari netbook. Both use the AMD Dual Core L110 CPUs.

Raikiri · 20 Oct 2009 at 13:56

Tinders said:
Does anyone know if this will play any basic games such as Football manager 2009? and whats the battery life like 3 hours plus?

I get 4 hours running intensive things (games, for example), 5 hours video and 6 hours general use.

dbmzk1 said:
How are you finding the glossy screen?

Absolutely fine, it isn't a reflective as a MBP and goes brighter so it's pretty usable.

P.S. No RAM yet, damn RM!

The Running Man · 20 Oct 2009 at 14:50

so on the HP website they have like 5 skus

yet all the spec are the same?!

is there an atom 280? do any have ddr3 memory!?

Raikiri · 20 Oct 2009 at 15:00

They all have DDR3, the £329 amd £330 specs look identical, the one for £359 has 3g/WWAN built in.

The Running Man · 20 Oct 2009 at 15:27

^^ thanks

so whats your hand on heart impression Raikiri, i have been holding off a netbook till ION time, or so i told myself... now its here...but with atom not AMD and is only dx9...

i was bidding on a £250 Sony VGN-TZ11XN/B U7500.. but im inbetween now!

Raikiri · 20 Oct 2009 at 15:36

Very usuable and can only see it getting better as CUDA acceleration is implemented into more things (Flash bing a prime candidate). As far as netbooks go it's by far the best I have used.

scaramonga · 20 Oct 2009 at 18:24

I see its now available on OcUK to buy. The specs are listed as:

1. ION LE or Full ION?

2. Noted as DDR2 RAM?

3. I thought Bluetooth was extra?

I'll ask again if anyone knows if the Intel 5300 WiFi card can be fitted in this?

Many thx before I purchase

jamesjoyce · 20 Oct 2009 at 18:33

Recieved my mini 311 today along with a 2gb stick of ram I ordered. Confirming that it works, shows up as 2.7gb under xp.

raptormonkey · 20 Oct 2009 at 18:34

It has DDR3 ram so they need to check the specs.

Tinders · 20 Oct 2009 at 19:18

scaramonga said:
I see its now available on OcUK to buy. The specs are listed as:

1. ION LE or Full ION?

2. Noted as DDR2 RAM?

3. I thought Bluetooth was extra?

I'll ask again if anyone knows if the Intel 5300 WiFi card can be fitted in this?

Many thx before I purchase

Ive seen the wifi car q asked on various other forums, what advantage would that offer over the std installed card?

raptormonkey · 20 Oct 2009 at 20:02

jamesjoyce said:
Recieved my mini 311 today along with a 2gb stick of ram I ordered. Confirming that it works, shows up as 2.7gb under xp.

From OcUK? If not, exact same model?

BananaDunka · 20 Oct 2009 at 20:04

Is there anything in this price with same specs but thinner at all? I want this HP but will get another if there is a thinner brand out

raptormonkey · 20 Oct 2009 at 20:14

Thinner? Blimey, can you get a thinner netbook!?

BananaDunka · 20 Oct 2009 at 20:16

Waiting on Raikiri's pics of thinness

Raikiri · 20 Oct 2009 at 20:40

mrk said:
Waiting on Raikiri's pics of thinness

You've already seen it but here you go anyway

:

Phone is 12mm.

SDK^ · 20 Oct 2009 at 20:42

raptormonkey said:
Thinner? Blimey, can you get a thinner netbook!?

Asus 1008

No Ion but who needs an HDMI output on a netbook

Height: 18mm-25.7mm
Weight : 1.1kg

http://eeepc.asus.com/global/product1008ha-spec.html

** HP Compaq Mini 311c-1010SA Intel Atom N270 ION 11.6" Netbook @ £314.99 inc VAT **

HP Compaq Mini 311c-1010SA Intel Atom N270 ION 11.6" Netbook @ £314.99 inc VAT