Well i have to say after several happy months with my hackintosh eee-pc 1000HA running osx 10.5.8. I was looking for a replacement for my dying acer laptop with its built in lap oven. As well as a machine i could do my windows game development on. My needs where basic. Be able to render decent graphics with  directx capability and let me run my work ide's and home project ide's with decent speed.

My other goal which was to get rid of the hideous usb verizon wireless card that needed both usb ports plugged in to actually get good signals. Well after searching around and searching in best buy and microcenter. I stumbled across this beauty from verizon recently launched.

So things that most impressed me on its specs where:

• 2G standard expandable to 3G DDR3 1066Mhz
• 1366 x 768 resolution
  16:9 aspect ratio for full-screen HD content playback
• Nvidia ION graphics<<---- Awesome and did i mention Awesome
• Nvidia Cuda<<-- For fast decoding and offloading workload to the gpu as well as
• Supports the new Flash Player 10.1 features such as hardware acceleration.
• 1080dpi HD not that im all into HD movies but its great to be able to watch them and also
• Bluetooth and Wireless capabilities including the wireless N << can u say fast
• Of course built in verizon 3g for internet wherever you are. CDMA/1X/EV-DO Revision A: 800/1900 MHz; UMTS/HSPA: 850/1900/2100 MHz; GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
• 160GB HD not so impressive but u can always replace that.

So my review:
Its really fast.
I can play all my mmo's on it. Including Secondlife, Starwars galaxies, Wow and EQ2 Runs great.
I plan on giving it its full 3GB ram it will help.
I like windows 7 <  cant believe i said that. But its been pretty solid even when i was using it since beta. I still however hate IE which seems to have gotten worse with IE8.
Installations seem a bit slow to startup but once they get going they fly.
Great sound ALTEC speaker along the front.
It pretty light to carry and it has a LED backlit display. Very nice it looks much better than my EEE-PC screen maybe cause the aspect ratio is better, but  it reminds me of a macbook pro screen.
The keyboard is nice has a nice feel to it. I am not a fan of the trackpad thats why i use a wireless mouse.But its decent.
The webcam is good. Much higher quality than i was expecting. I even use it for Facial recognition to login to windows :).
It stays nice and cool. Great battery life about 6 hours.

In short if you are still reading this, you should stop now and go treat yourself and buy one of these they are the best netbook out IMHO.

BTW my hackintosh is for sale:)
EEE-PC great condition it was babied
Atom processor N270
Intel GMA 950
Bluetooth usb included
2GB ram
Airport Extreme 802.11g/n
160GB HD 5400RPM
Webcam
MAC OSX 10.5.8 fully updated with everything working
Sound is flaky though a usb headset is recommended
ILife 08 included as well as some other nice software.
It runs Mac OSX excellently very fast and full quartz graphics. I even had WOW on there.
send me an email if your interested:

Doc~

Okay so let me prefix this article by saying that this netbook rocks. Nvidia Ion for the win. As well as 3G connection. I also have a rocksolid eee-pc, but this is my new baby and believe me it was hard to unseat my eee-pc from the throne..

So my second day with it i came into a weird situation. I booted and i was greeted by a happy HP sign and umm,... yeah it didnt move. No windows 7 logo no nothing. I tried checking memory making sure it was seated securely as requested at the HP support site. Did the battery out, unplugged holding the power for 10 seconds thing. No go. So i packed it up ,(dissapointed i spent a whole day installing all my dev stuff and getting it all perfect for me.) Took it back to the verizon store and the nice sales lady took it out the box and hit power and guess what it booted right into windows SOB, wth hell right.

So I began  troubleshooting why it wasnt booting for me, I took it back to work, did a  backup up of my data to my internal SD card and rebooted. Stuck at HP logo again. GRrrrr.

Well turns out the issue is that if u have a wireless mouse with the little nanoreciever plugged in it thwarts bootup. Try unplugging any usb devices before you actually get into windows and should fix this problem for you. I have no idea if this is the case for other usb devices but certainly is the case for logitech wireless mice.(so much for leave the usb nano reciever in #fail logitech marketing).

Anyways Rock on HP mini and for goodness sake update the bios HP!@!@!

Doc out~