Title: Tech Lab: Smaller laptops from HP

" About two years ago the first wave of netbook computers came sweeping across the market and United States. Consumers love them they've bought by the millions why not telling three -- 400 dollars for a laptop computer. Then of course they got home and ran into some problems. The early netbooks had very low power processors tiny little screens. And they didn't even use the popular windows operating system and a Virgin Atlantic. While all of that we started to change now as -- become more powerful and more capable. Like this one right here as one of the most recent ones from Hewlett-Packard PHP mini one hand. Now this -- not only running everybody's favorite windows XP. It's also got an extra large battery gives it really good life. And in addition it's got a built in three G modems so -- did you subscribe to AT&T or Verizon -- these other services. You can get three G Internet access even when your out of range of -- Pretty good idea of course this machine isn't nearly as cheapest on the early netbooks itself for. Almost 600 dollars. However. There's also the idea of what the consumers might want something even more -- than that something. With a few more bells and whistles but still not as heavy or expensive as a full size laptop. Hewlett-Packard got an idea along those lines to they're pushing this new concept they called the ultra portable. This is their ultra portable pavilion DV two. It still smaller than a traditional laptop only weighs about four -- But it's got a lot more features on it including a very fast dual core processor from hand me. It's also got plenty of memory and a dedicated graphics card so that video that run on this looks a lot better. You can also get it -- optional external dvd drive. Well we're carrying here -- all fancy features and additional options now for. Look at thousand dollars between get a basic version of this for about 600. Either way it means that the idea of smaller lighter laptop computers definitely is here Tuesday. But the kinds of computers were getting I -- a lot more powerful a lot more versatile than those early netbooks. In the tech lab loses Iowa --"