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The big netbook talk this week has been all about the HP 5101, a netbook clearly aimed at the same business and Enterprise users as the HP Mini-note 2140 had been, based on the feature set. Since most netbooks are viewed as purely consumer market creations, that is a bit on an anomaly right off the bat. To please more demanding users in the Enterprise, everything about this unit seems to be a bit above the standard netbook…bigger keyboard, better webcam, larger/faster HDs, Aluminum/Magnesium case.

In addition, the 5101 simply doesn’t look like a typical netbook, very reminiscent of the black no-nonsense styling and razor sharp angles of the business world’s Notebook PC of choice, the IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad. That can’t be accidental

Check out this video from TheStreet to get a closer look at the device, which I feel is going to be one of the top selling netbooks of the summer, and may already be the model to beat for this holiday season.

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).