So, HP Netbooks suck…
I was tempted by HP Mini 1116NR some time ago, but I very much disliked its stupid resolution of 1024 x 576. Now I see I was right not to buy it. Eugenia Loli-Queru just proves how much a closely-related variant, HP Mini 1120NR, sucks:
The screen resolution is a major disappointment at 1024×576 instead of 1024×600. The reason being, not only because many Gnome apps just don’t fit in that space, but also the special interface that HP worked on was DESIGNED for 600 px height as minimum! At 576px there are places where the UI doesn’t fit, or it is forced to have scrollbars, and the difference is that of about 25 px. This feels like engineers made all their work and testing on a 600px screen, and one day, a product manager comes in, takes his coat off, faces them all, and says: “Gentlemen, we want to be different. We are going for 576px height instead”. I believe the engineers’ faces would have been priceless to see that day. [...]
The wireless icon won’t report reception percentage with my new router, while it would with my older Netgear router. It will also take up to 1 minute to even start try to connect to a network — be it after a wake up or a full reboot, and with any of the two routers. [...] That’s a few minutes lost every day.
The ethernet port is not full sized, and so older-styled Ethernet cables do NOT fit. None of our ethernet cables here fit (this was the first device ever that had this problem with our cables, and there have been countless devices in my hands through the years), we had to buy a new one at Frys, one that had a slimmer plastic protection around the main connector.
