The quality of netbooks has only gone up in recent months, and they are now more powerful than ever. When PC makers like HP, that traditionally used to focus on providing low-cost PCs, start to work on designing sleeker devices, you know the tides have changed. That’s the case with the HP Mini 210 HD. It’s a powerful mobile device that will surely be on your short of list of netbooks to consider.

According to CNET, the HP Mini 210 HD offers, “HD video playback,” has “many configuration options,” a “low starting price,” and a “great touch pad.”

However, they didn’t like the fact that you need beta software to playback HD video.

In conclusion, “The versatile HP Mini 210 adds best-of features from other HP laptops, but the HD video card requires a still-in-beta Flash update for streaming Flash video.”