HP offers a choice of a 3 cell or 6 cell battery for the HP Mini 2140 netbook. The 3 cell battery fits flush with the unit and provides up to 4 hours of run time. The 6 cell battery sticks out from the bottom an dmakes the computer bulkier and heavier. But it more than doubles the run time. HP suggests the 6 cell battery will last for up to 8.5 hours if you have a hard drive, or up to 10 hours if you opt for the super-expensive 80GB SSD option.

And the shouting match between Intel and Psion continues. Psion, if you’ll remember is the company behind a series of ahead-of-their-time clamshell mini-computers. The last few products in Psion’s handheld PC lineup were called Netbooks. Late last year the company started threatening legal action to retailers, computer makers, and bloggers who were using the word “netbook” to refer to computers that hadn’t been produced by Psion.

Is Acer planning to build an Aspire One laptop with an 11.6 inch display? That’s what Macles is reporting, and the site does have a pretty good track record of breaking Acer-related netbook news. If the rumor is true, the new Aspire One would have an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display with a 16:9 aspect ratio. It would also have an Intel Atom Z530 CPU and integrated GMA 500 graphics with hardware support for decode HD video.

Zoostorm is launching the new Freedom netbook in the UK. The mini-laptop sports a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, an 8.9 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, an 8GB SSD, and 512MB of RAM which can be upgraded to 1GB.The netbook also has 2 USB ports, a VGA port, headphone and mic jacks, a 0.3MP webcam, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, and Ethernet. The company claims the included 4 cell, 4400mAh battery is good for 4.5 hours.

Update: It turns out this was a concept design that Lenovo put out two years ago. It never went into production.Lenovo has posted a series of images of an upcoming portable device called the Pocket Yoga on Flickr. This appears to be the same mystery device that was first spotted last week.At first glance, the Pocket Yoga looks an awful lot like the Sony Vaio P.

HP sure does know how to ship computers and components in pretty boxes.  The HP Mini 1000 comes in a sleek looking black box with a pretty picture of the netbook on the top and information about the computer on the side. And the HP Mini 1000 extended, 6 cell battery comes in a box that’s just as pretty. But as you can see from the picture above, things look a bit different once you open the box.