DISQUS

Yup, the batteries are the same and interchangeable. The power supplies are little different though - the 2140's puts out 0.1 amp more.

Yup, tried that and it didn't help :(

Tried the newest Vista driver from VIA Arena right off the bat, and then rolled back to HP's Vista Driver. They're just not compatible yet unfortunately.

Any ideas on the OS that is displaying on that screen? I'd guess a customized Linux distro, and probably not Windows. The whole black motif looks pretty cool though.

The new screen has LEDs for the backlighting, a different contrast ratio and decreased viewing angles: http://www.hp2133guide.com/hp-releasing-mini-no...

Nope you won't be able to just plug in a Nano chip unfortunately. It's soldered to the board in a special way called Ball Grid Array and would be a huge pain to change.

What would be even better is to leave it unsecured and redirect the first page view to www.barackobama.com.

Actually I think this is a different laptop series than the E (Mini Inspiron). If you view the link "Latitude E-series of laptops" it says these are 13.4 to 15.4-inch laptops and the picture looks way different than anything in the leaked stuff. (Notice the Mini Inspirons have a rounded edge on the lid while the E-Series are angled. Also all the MI's also have grey keyboard bezel while the other has a black.)

With this announcement there's no way the Mini Inspiron is being renamed to 'E'.

The only thing I have a hard time believing is that the name is really going to be E. I could see them going with Mini Inspiron. It would be a little weird with the Mini-Note and all, but it's still different enough.... but to just use E? I would imagine eee pc is trademarked and ASUS would have a strong lawsuit on their hands against Dell. I figured it would be called Inspiron 9xx, since their other models use screen size followed by a version type number. Wait and see I guess...

It's kinda hard to say what's going to happen with them... I don't think HP will announce anything, but Dell probably will. At least a name and specs.

More food for thought, why did VIA announce Nano and the Openbook a week before Computex?? Do they have something even bigger up their sleeves?

I did an interview with a VIA rep earlier this week and the following day he asked me not to post it: "...I wasn't supposed to provide interviews regarding the content that I sent you earlier." Nothing in his replies to my questions seemed all that extraordinary though. So it's probably more of a media/press freeze for now... but it's still strange they announced early.

Interestingly, Dell and HP aren't on the exhibitor list for Computex. VIA, Acer and MSI are all though.

lol, I know it... I'm getting the 1.6Ghz model and wanted to be able to under clock to save some battery. I just read over on the mininoteuser forums that there isn't anything in the bios you can change for video or cpu. :(

Thanks again!

Thanks for documenting all this stuff Brad. It helps a lot!

Do you know if you can under or over clock the cpu, or change how much memory the onboard video uses?

Wow... I had no idea there were so many sub-notebooks out or close to release. Thanks for posting such an in depth summary!