HP today announced, among a plethora of other things, the Mini 2101 and Mini 210 Netbooks, which are pretty standard fare including a chiclet keyboard, N450 processor, Broadcom Crystal HD for dealing with high definition content, and rubberised lids to deal a crippling blow to those pesky fingerprint marks. Both run Windows 7, and the 210 is available in your choice of colours for $329, whereas the 2101 is only available in black, and for that priveledge you’ll have to pay $399, although as far as we can tell the specs are the same.
As for HP’s new cloud storage solution, it’s called HP CloudDrive and it’s powered by small startup ZumaDrive. It works by fooling your machine into thinking it has local storage attached, when in fact that storage is in the cloud. You can stream music, photos, movies, anything you would ordinarily be able to pull from a regular drive. You can also use software like iTunes or Picasa to stream your media. We haven’t received word on whether this will be a free or premium option, or, indeed, how much space each user is allowed, but it’s due to come into operation at some point this year.
