Welcome to The Hoosier Illuminati. Macintosh bigot, clothes horse, motorsports fanatic (as long as they turn right), Anglophile.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. --Henry Ward Beecher

HP, I am curious about one thing.

I think it’s great that you left the optical drive out of the Mini-Note, you don’t need them 99.9% of the time in a desktop replacement notebook, and probably less in something like this little guy.  One little lapse in your logic escapes me, though:

Why did you put the manual on a CD? 

Just askin’.