A tiny portable, lightweight, portable and sea monkey. To seek a similar fashion, we could define this HP Vivienne Tam as "NETBOOK of Ralph Lauren." Were it not because its design belongs to another dressmaker: the china Vivienne Tam (which in fact it was not as bizarre as Mrs Peter J).

However, this is not a distinction that only visual look through resources such as topically feminine fuchsia color and floral motif. It is also an ultra-wide rule, with a base design and a keyboard as good as the HP Compaq Mini 700. Not to say they are exactly alike.

Because, in fact, the HP Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam is a Mini 700 with special design. And we must recognize that the design really appealing. Well, if we get fussy, we found an almost imperceptible difference in the screen, as explained later. But for the rest of us are faced with the same team, it only costs 200 euros more. Justify the work of the designer as much difference in price?

It's a question that will be answered each user. And it is paying for a special design and it is absurd to some other key. Think of the few teams who prefer the firm Bang & Olufsen, for example. And that team is a Danish company have huge overpriced for what they offer. Or go over the sales of the famous iPod by Apple, an MP3 considerably more expensive than the rest. Despite this fact, iPod has ended by becoming the absolute standard in the market thanks to its superior design.

That said, we just picking off the virtues of this very special NETBOOK.

In the curve is the style
Visually, the design of the latest ultra-HP is undoubtedly the most attractive. And the idea is quite simple: it is wide enough to accommodate a comfortable keyboard (261.7 mm) and compressed depth (166.7 mm) and thickness (25.2 mm). Moreover, the entire team is completely bent, so that the casing holding the shortest possible in a vacuum and minimize weight.

In the case of the HP Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam, as also happens with the HP Compaq Mini 700, the weight becomes almost a kilo round. However, it also influences and even the use of a thin battery that attaches to the bottom team. So do not commit either the weight or thickness, but the battery life (as we shall see in a few paragraphs).

The keypad of HP Mini 1000 Vivianne Tam repeats the same story: the space has been seized almost one hundred percent, so typing on it is almost as comfortable as if we had a laptop in front of more conventional size. It is an area in which little by little all manufacturers are realizing that we must do to make a chest for the sake of usability (even the Asus has left behind their keyboards and toy has followed the path of Acer launch models much more manageable as the Asus Eee PC 1000HE).

However, the feeling when you press the keys of the HP Vivienne Tam is something different. Keys HP Compaq Mini 700 has the usual smooth feel of many laptops, but in this NETBOOK flower looks as if the keys were varnished. Probably because of the special color, the plastic keyboard and the rest as a sense of brand new furniture, and in fact the surface is rather brighter than the piano black of the Mini 700.

For the remaining controls, the HP Vivienne Tam includes the same virtues and flaws that the Mini 700. Bring a pair of levers at the front to turn on / off the computer and enable / disable the wireless connections, and a touchpad with buttons on side that has a button on / off just above. As we see in the image, the button could be placed elsewhere, to enlarge the size of the touchpad buttons or principal place underneath.

Widescreen display true
At first he said that the screen is the only technical point in this HP Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam is distinguished from the HP Compaq Mini 700. But the difference is very insignificant. Only if we look closely at both laptops at the same time, we realize that, even with exactly the same size, the HP Vivienne Tam screen takes a little less space.

The width of both screens is exactly the same, but the HP Vivienne Tam is slightly less high. The difference is only half a centimeter, so the diagonal is 10.1 inches versus 10.2 inches for the HP Mini 700. As a result, also lost some lines of resolution. Specifically, 24, because we hahblando of 1024 x 576 pixels, compared with 1024 x 600 Mini 700.

At the moment of truth, this is something to note in view documents and web pages? Because the truth, no. The difference is so trivial that only appreciate a movie director to play a video. And everything is because the screen is the HP Vivienne Tam mounted widescreen 16:9 ratio. Not that it's a big advantage, because the screen is small and is not the eighth wonder of the world comes to watch film, but it is not a defect.

Conventional connections
In the wireless part, you can not be anything to object to this HP Vivienne Tam, as it has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The firm has retained the integrated 3G connectivity for the HP Compaq Mini 705, which remains a classic black finish. However, as also happened in the Mini 700, there are some points in the physical connections from Vivienne Tam has no forgiveness.

Starting with the video output, which is not the standard VGA lifetime, but a thin and elongated connection for which we must deal with an adapter. Then we have to talk about the HP Mini Mobile unit. What is it? A port that is plugged into a wall, and we could connect an accessory to HP's own storage.

As for ports USB, the HP Vivienne Tam takes two, one on each side. The use of only one audio connector, which serves independently to headphones, speakers and microphone is correct. After all, customary for a NETBOOK rarely need more than just your microphone and speakers.

The team also works with programs videomensajería. Take the obligatory webcam integrated into the frame. To close this section, we also found the HP Vivienne Tam one memory card reader SD and MMC, as well as an Ethernet port that can show or hide with a rubber cap.

A generic NETBOOK
Although visually the HP Vivienne Tam has many elements that distinguish it from other netbooks, it is certain that their equipment is almost the same as always in this type of machine. With the exception of the hard disk, which remains at 60 compared to 120 GB or 160 GB that carry the most complete ultra. Inside is just as usual, is governed by an Intel Atom N270 1.6 GHz and has 1 GB of RAM to work with ease in Windows XP.

As we have said before, the advantage is that a NETBOOK not really need much more to fulfill all the functions for which they are designed. In the case of the HP Vivienne Tam, the system will boot completely in less than half a minute and turns off in about ten seconds. Its performance is quite satisfactory in all respects, if not particularly heavy load programs in the graphic, then takes an integrated Intel GMA 950 card.

The only point where we feel that HP can improve Vivianne Tam is autonomy. And do not say because no other netbooks, working at full capacity, only hold a couple of hours without the charger, but because autonomy is one of the points which are affecting more recent batches of ultra - .

In other words, the HP Vivienne Tam brings a battery of three cells, thin and light to maintain a slim and lightweight design, in exchange for better autonomy.

HP has already started selling United States in six-cell batteries for their miniportátiles, as shown at right. It is exactly like the battery that comes with the HP Vivienne Tam, except for the color and the rounded contours that, in practice, increases the weight and thickness of the team, in addition to lift slightly on the rear surface to support it. And of course, charge about $ 100.

Who wants an HP Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam?
We are going to allow topicazo, but this little one has a clearly oriented towards the female audience. And within it, to those particularly interested in fashion and trends. And not just because it comes signed by a designer of some renown, but because it has an impressive and elegant appearance reminiscent of a bag design, although it remains basically the same HP Compaq Mini 700 that sells for 400 euros. In the end, the HP Vivienne Tam emotional appeals to the sense of the user who appreciates the design. A design, our experience convinces and captivates the ladies.

Strengths
Even without their striking color and finish with floral motifs, the HP Vivienne Tam in itself is a NETBOOK with very good design. It has a fairly low weight and its keyboard is, as we mentioned when discussing the Mini 700, the best of all we have been able to test in a PC. In the technical section, which brings Bluetooth is also standard.

Can be improved
Pay 200 euros more for the design of the HP Vivienne Tam, as we said at the beginning, is something that depends on the end user.

If we mainly design and we do not mind paying more, these factors do not influence much. But with all the standard video connection port and the HP Mini Mobile elements that could be purified in this HP Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam.