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The HP Mini 5102, announced at CES 2010, is a netbook targeted at business and education use. It has a 10.1" diagonal LED-backlit WSVGA widescreen display optionally provided with touch capabilities, is powered by a 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N450 processor (or a 1.83 GHz N470), has up to 2GB RAM, and offers 80GB SSD or 160, 250 or 320 GB HDD data storage options.
The Mini 5102 sports a stylish, lightweight design with a starting weight of 2.64 lbs (1.2 kg), has a 95% full-size, spill-resistant keyboard, an integrated 2 MP webcam, 3 x USB 2.0, VGA port, microphone in and headphone out, SD card and Kensington lock slots, integrated Marvell Ethernet (10/100/1000 NIC), WiFi 802.11b/g/n, and optional wireless Broadband with GPS. You can choose between 4-cell and 6-cell batteries, and order the netbook with an optional carrying handle.
Besides Windows XP and Windows 7 the Mini 5102 can be ordered with the FreeDOS and SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLED) 11 operating systems from the HP Home Store. The start price for the most basic system configuration is US $518, but be prepared to pay more than US $800 if you want a more powerful hardware equipment.
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Don't understand why they got
Don't understand why they got SuSE pre-installed instead of Ubuntu.
HP Mini 5102 Target Audience
HP Mini 5102 Target Audience
It's probably something to do with the target audience.
This is being sold as a business netbook.
P.S. I have made a page to get this running with ArchLinux.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HP_Mini_5102
I'm not surprised, because in
I'm not surprised, because in my opinion SuSE desktop is better than Ubuntu! I for one bought this netbook (for home use) exactly because of the preinstalled SuSE.
I gave SLED a go but it's not
I gave SLED a go but it's not great on this netbook since it's not designed for such a small screen (unlike Ubuntu Netbook Edition) and has limited application and multimedia support. Maybe that's okay in the corporate environment. However, if usability is important then Ubuntu is a good choice.
Ubuntu 10.04 works out of the box on this netbook. See http://martinwebster.info/2010/05/01/ubuntu-hp-5102/ for installation details.
Hello, i like to know if the
Hello,
i like to know if the internal 3G module works with any version of Ubuntu?
Following your link to "HP
Following your link to "HP Home Store", I was unable to find a way to purchase the Mini 5102. When I google "mini 5102", I reach this page, which has no option to order it without Windows:
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/321957-321957-64295-384126...
What's the procedure for ordering a Mini 5102 without Windows?
On the product page click on
On the product page click on the 'Configure your model' tab and then on the red 'Configure PC' button right below the tabs. Then scroll down below 'Customize your configuration' and select your preferred OS from the 'Operating system' drop down list.