HP held a bloggers’ meet-up today to launch their latest in the range of tiny, portable and actually useful laptops: HP Mini. Just for the record, it was more like a presentation for the bloggers.
First of all, it was a very unprofessional and poor management on the behalf of the people who were responsible for organizing the whole event. I was told that it is going to begin at 3:00 PM on 10th December, 2009 in the Kashmir Hall of Pearl Continental. I got there a couple of minutes late and Kashmir Hall was filled with old people standing around in groups, smoking. I was kind of dumbfounded and stood staring at all those people. Then as I regained consciousness, I decided to go check out the screen which displays all the events. The meet-up was shifted to Shalimar Hall now and then when I met the guy who was arranging it all (Khalid), mentioned until yesterday was supposed to be in Holiday Inn.
Anyways, the all new HP Mini: What is so special about it? What is all the hype about? Well, simply put; there is nothing special about it and all this hype is just a marketing policy. There is no real hype about it. No blogger or IT expert is excited about it in Lahore at least. The only people excited about it are the people who are selling those tiny machines themselves.
The HP Mini can not do anything that my Dell Inspiron 6400 can’t do and since there is no point in carrying my laptop everywhere I go, I don’t see why I should switch to a smaller screen just for the heck of it. Yes, if Mini could play FIFA 10, I will be interested. The specs of the little system are:
• Intel Atom Processor N270 (1.6GHz, 512KB L2, 533MHz FSB)
• 1GB DDR3 system memory
• 160GB 5400RPM SATA hard drive
• Wireless-G Card
• 6-cell Lithium Ion Battery
With these specs, Khalid claimed that he has seen people play World of Warcraft on it, quite plausible. Then he said the system is capable of running Microsoft softwares, Apple/Mac softwares and open-source/free-source softwares at the same time and on top of that it did something that he referred to as ‘triple boot’ or something of the lines; now I’m not a tech blogger like most of the people there were so I don’t know what that shit is!
I’m not writing all of this because they asked me to or because I found it worth it. What provoked (I may say) me to write about this is the whole fuss they’re creating around the HP Mini for no good reason. The laptop can share files and folders and shit on the network like no one has ever done it before. They have just added a software that if a free software and it works just fine on all HP machines.
If that is an achievement to be proud of, I can share all the crap in my HP desktop with my Dell laptop and the other way around; beat that mofos!
The point being, HP wants bloggers to do the marketing for them for FREE! If they think that bloggers can do so much for them, why don’t they pay them more than a cup of tea, kababs and sandwiches to blog about your toy laptop. That is something these techies will probably never achieve. They are too big for each other to join forces.
It is true that everyone is the hero of his own life but it doesn’t hurt to be realistic. Hard to do when you have people sucking up on you all the time probably because of all the cool gadgets you let them use. If bloggers don’t touch the ground before it’s too late, I’m sorry to say but things will get dirty.
Hint: money.
Links:
HP Mini launch in Pakistan
Twitter: @HPTechBloggers
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