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I have a mino HD, which I've already reviewed, and I had the opportunity to compare it to the standard mino.
Unfortunately I've had to compress the video to upload to Amazon so the quality has suffered a little but it does show some of the differences. Both have excellent low light performance, so ideal for parties etc.

The mino and mino HD look virtually identical, just a discreet "HD" on the mino HD.
Operation is identical although you can zoom the mino before pressing the record button, the mino HD only zooms during recording. The TV out on the mino also works well, it's poor on the mino HD.
As you can see the mino picture format is 4:3, 640 x 480 pixels (VGA) and the raw camcorder output is a .avi file. 15 seconds of video from the mino is approx. 8.41MB
The mino HD picture format is widescreen, 1280 x 720 pixels, and raw format is .mp4. 15 seconds of video from the mino HD is approx. 19.4MB

Most laptops will play a .avi file, I've found that not everyone can play a .mp4 file (I can't upload them to Amazon for example, hence the conversion!)
Flipshare software is on the camcorder, plug it in to a Windows machine and it will install it and also update if you are connected to the internet. Very simple and easy to use; easy to edit and produce a video, it even comes with music.
Unfortunately the Flipshare program converts the videos all to .mp4 format; the latest update also exports as .mp4 (previously it exported as .wmv files which are more universal)
You can upload to Youtube etc.

These are brilliant little camcorders, easy to carry and use, and surprisingly good results, either is unlikely to disappoint.