Are netbooks still usable in 2021? – A review of the HP mini 110 Netbook
hi everyone welcome back to a new video
today i have this laptop this right here
is an
hp mini 110 netbook this laptop was
released back in october of 2010 for
around 390 dollars
and my model has an intel atom n455
2 gigabytes of ddr2 ram a 250 gigabyte
hard drive
and intel gma 3150 graphics which power
the 1024 by 600 lcd display
let’s find out what this netbook can
still do in 2021
alright before actually turning on the
laptop time to clean it
this is the same laptop that i reviewed
a little over a year ago
and after that review it had just been
collecting dust for over a year
time to see if the laptop still works
after plugging in the charger and
pulling on the on switch
the laptop springs right into life after
a bit of waiting the laptop got into
the already installed windows 7 starter
on the hard drive
[Music]
now let’s install some programs this
took a while mainly due to the hard
drive being slow and the laptop was also
probably limited by the 2 gigabytes of
ram
there were some programs that i could
not install like performance zest
bus simulator 16 and anything from the
epic games launcher
so no fortnite or gta on this laptop
let’s have a look at the ports on the
front this laptop has two speakers
on the right side you can find the sd
card slot the on off slider
two usb ports an ethernet port
and an opening for a lock on the back
this laptop has no ports
on the left side there is a charging
port a vga port
an opening for cooling one more usb port
and a headphone jack this
is the keyboard on this laptop it’s a
bit on the small side but it’s still
comfortable to type on
and that’s what counts all of the
function buttons are integrated into the
top row of keys
this laptop also has a webcam although
it’s not all that good
a cool thing about this laptop is the
ease with which you can get to the hard
drive
ram and wi-fi card just take out the
battery pull on one tab
and the entire bottom cover comes off
[Music]
the hinge on this laptop is sturdy but
it makes the laptop unable to be opened
with just one hand
time to actually test some stuff on this
laptop starting with youtube
youtube is really only watchable up to
240p
and the speakers sound really bad like
you can hear in this clip
for around 120 euros this car
is an xc graphics processor and it comes
clocked in at 850 megahertz
it also has one
the keyboard on this laptop does type
good and i really liked it
this is how the keyboard sounds
the caps lock and wi-fi lights are
integrated into the keys
the function keys also work great but
they are mostly just standard hp
function keys
let’s run some benchmarks starting off
with user benchmark
user benchmark showed that the cpu was
performing above
expectations the hard drive was
performing below expectations
and the ram was performing below
potential
heaven would not load due to direct 3d
limitations
minecraft would also not start due to
opengl limitations
roblox would not launch due to the
graphics drivers being too old
even after updating them
a game that would start was freddy
fazbear’s pizzeria simulator
it was pretty laggy but i would say that
it’s still kind of playable
[Music]
ultimate custom knight was way too laggy
to be called playable
[Music]
euro truck simulator 2 would not even
start
the screen resolution was too small for
bus simulator 12
and because of that this game would not
launch
beam ng drive would not launch due to
direct x limitations
cs go would crash on startup
pc building simulator would also not
launch
because the screen resolution on this
laptop was too small
and with that i’m going to shut this
laptop down and give my final opinion on
it
what do i think of it in my opinion this
laptop is not usable anymore in 2021
the only thing that it could do was very
very basic web browsing and even that
would lag
most of the time and games are
unplayable on this laptop
except for very light titles like freddy
fazbear’s pizzeria simulator
the battery in this laptop also died and
because of that you can’t even use it to
write documents
on when you’re out and about so overall
no
this laptop is not usable anymore in
2021
[Music]
and with that this video comes to an end
thanks so much for watching comment like
subscribe and i’ll see you guys next
time
goodbye
