HP MININOTE 2133 FULL
HP MININOTE 2133 PC

You can already see a trend with the wireless chipsets on all these netbooks. I commend Via and Transmeta before them for their effort but as history shows when it comes to these small parts a leader will arise, typically Intel, and everyone will fall in line. Later on they all went Xscale which was the 5th gen of ARM. As the market proved itself and the Compaq iPaq gained a big lead over the others the rest of the OEMs entered the race and things pretty much standardized on ARM. They all ran different processors, HP with SH3, Casio on MIPS, and Compaq on ARM.

HP MININOTE 2133 PC

This reminds me of Pocket PC circa 2000, when you had Casio, HP and Compaq all running the new CE platform. Coupled with a good amount of ram I've been able to do my usual mega multitasking office and graphics stuff just fine at work. I'm, not saying the Atom is on par with today's dual cores but as far as mobile chips is concerned I'm quite pleased.

This is not scientific at all but in the few minutes I was playing with it, it did feel a little sluggish. The rest of the hardware specs, aside from the CPU, are comparable to the current crop of netbooks (aspire one, eee pc 901, etc). I'm not sure who came up with the bright idea to put left and right click on opposite sides of the touch pad but let's bake him a cake and shove it in his face. The touch pad takes some getting used to. The whole thing looks like HP met up with Apple behind the iPod factory and got pregnant. They share the same keyboard, only difference is material, which I must say feels wonderful under the finger tips. You're right the screen is beautiful, superior to the Acer's mere 1024圆00 resolution.

Moore (of Metasploit fame) is selling at I was intrigued especially after seeing the custom versions of the HP Mini-note that H.D. I looked at one of these when I got my Aspire One. If I had waited to today, I probably would have brought the Acer Aspire One with the 120gb HD due to the fact BT3 works out the box and the cost is cheaper yet the casing and keyboard don't seem as good. They may sound like major problems but overall I'm very happy with the HP2133, its good looking, the keyboard is easy to use, I have no problem with the mouse buttons at either side. *Don't put the lid down if the machine is very hot, some people have had there screens split. *Even with the new fan - the machine gets VERY HOT quickly, after an hour of use - you will burn yourself! Use a fan cooler if you can. *The motherboard and Fan was replaced last week by HP and they forgot to stick back on the rubber feet on the bottom of the machine - HP tech support is probably the worst I have experienced! The screen quality is excellent as far as i'm concerned and does it purpose for everyday tasks. I ordered the £350 Suse version from Misco with the 120gb HD and 1gb Memory (both of which I've upgraded now.)Ĭurrently dual-booting Win XP and OpenSuse - everything works fine I was shown it by a HP beta tester and everything from the casing to the keyboard was so much better than the 7'' EeePc. I've had the Mininote in the UK for just over 3 months now :D And the Aspire One which Darren recently reviewed.īut mainly I'm wondering if anyone here has one or has played with one? What are your thoughts? Wait for a VIA Nano or Intel Atom version or is it fine the way it is? How does it compare to a Atom based system like the recent Asus, MSI or Acer models? I know that performance wise whatever i get for £350 is going to be on par with my 3 year old Dell and Thinkpad, but its the size and form factor thats more appealing. Then there is the EEE PC 901, which comes with a 20GB SSD and Atom processor, but far more utilitarian in form than the HP. But then I read comments from people who actually own them and say that in reality, while its not got much poke, its fine for every day tasks. Ideally I'd like the 1.6GHz version but HP in there wisdom have deemed that the UK shall only get 1.2GHz, which is even slower than the ones that got poor performance in reviews. The only problem is that it has a Via C7 processor, which isn't that nippy according to the reviews. Its only about 50£ more than a EEE PC 901 20GB, which I'm also considering.

HP MININOTE 2133 FULL

I'm really tempted to get one simply because of the looks, the fact that its made from metal, has a 92% full sized keyboard, gives me the option of running vista (although i really want to try FreeBSD) and has a 1280 x 768 screen (8.9'). This is the utterly gorgeous HP Mini-Note 2133, a netbook for grown-ups.

Hp mininote 2133