Before my trip to India, I bought an HP Mini 2140 netbook . It is a beautiful machine. It weighs only 4 pounds. It has a 1024x576 resolution screen (normal width but short height). It has almost a full sized keyboard. My favorite feature is that, theoretically, it has a 6 cell battery that can last 8 hours ? a mind-boggling long amount of time. The mini came with Windows XP pre-installed. That wouldn?t do. So, I immediately downloaded the release candidate of Windows 7 and installed it on the netbook. The mini does not have a DVD or CD drive. I copied the Windows 7 download to a USB drive and mounted the drive using Daemon Tools. I was able to install Windows 7 from the USB drive . Next, I installed Windows Live Sync (what used to be called...(read more) ...
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