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HP Mini Vivienne Tam edition

When I first read about the new limited edition HP Mini Vivienne Tam notebook I thought I’d really want it. The whole package called out to me, where it looked both functional and gorgeous. Also, its a lovely small size just like my Asus Eeepc. However, now that I’ve seen more pictures of it on Cnet, I’m less enamoured with it. The press pictures made the peony cover look so much better than it does in real life based on the pictures I’m seeing.

The problem of course is that, this is just a dressed up version of the HP Mini 1000 which would cost half the price of the jazzed up version. Its just not worth paying extra for a shell – pretty though the shell may be. I’d rather be spending that extra money on memory be it Mac memory or just memory for my other notebooks to jazz things up on the inside rather than on the outside.

So yeah, after hearing that it might cost a cool RM2800 here in Malaysia if or when the Vivienne Tam edition is brought in by HP, I think I’m giving it a miss. Pretty it might be, but practical it just is not.

January 6, 2009 | Filed Under Fashion, Technology 

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One Response to “HP Mini Vivienne Tam edition”

  1. Dian Sofia on March 10th, 2009

    It’s going at RM1999 here– does that fall into reasonableness for you given the specs? I want to get this… but I want the limited edition mouse thrown in as well but not seem to have arrived on Malaysian shores

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