Try to buy a netbook after its explosion in popularity is proving difficult, because the manufacturers of pumps too many variations.

In addition to the above specifications for each model, the HP Mini 210 (CPU, memory, hard drives, external color / finish), there are other physical differences, depending on the model number.

Depending on the Mini 210 hp model that you will only see a few differences:
- A different keyboard ( “island” conventional keyboard or keypad)
- A screen mat or glossy
- A different physical size of the battery
- Support Wireless Miscellaneous (802.11b / g 802.11b/g/n vs. vs. 802.11b / g + Bluetooth)

To date, the posts and photos, it is difficult to know what to expect at the end. According to HP there is a huge one hundred and four to twenty HP Mini 210 different models.

Some of the most popular models that I saw were the following attributes:
210-1010NR: Matte screen, keyboard Traditional
210-1030NR: Matte screen, keyboard Traditional
210-1040NR: bright screen, keyboard Island

In the end, I had a 210-1040NR. I prefer the keyboard Island, there seems to be less flexible than the traditional keyboard. Touch Typing on each keyboard was not a problem, is punctuation in the right place, and both shift keys and the spacebar are beautiful and great. The multi-touch touchpad works better than the competition. I installed Ubuntu Netbook Edition 9.10 and everything works out of the box. (Although the internal fan seems to be independent of temperature)

For me to know to construct the limits of the CPU, keyboard and quality is the display resolution of 1024×600, the weak point. I see there is also a small HB 210 high definition programming with a higher screen resolution may be worth consideration.

As much as 10.1 “with netbooks on the market as of February 2010, after handling and provide competing models from Acer, Asus, Toshiba and Sony, for me the HP Mini 210 is the winner.