HP’s entry into the new mini-notebook arena, sporting what seems to be a decent keyboard and a very clumsily designed trackpad:
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It ships with Vista by default, which pretty much every review below has pointed out as a major mistake.
Date | Link | Notes |
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May 18th | HP 2133 Mini-Note PC - Linux Source RPMs | A lot of people confused this with a Linux restore disk for the Mini-Note |
May 17th | Installing MinBuntu 8.04 with a USB stick | fine-tuned Ubuntu distribution with correct drivers (but no 3D support) |
May 3rd | Tek Sapo on availability in Portugal | Should be here in August (which, knowing the lay of the land, probably means December) |
May 2nd | Install Windows XP on a Mini-Note | Nice HOWTO that includes pointers to some of the missing drivers |
Apr 18th | HP 2133 First Impressions/Comparison to EeePC | In which the lack of a restore CD/DVD is mentioned yet again |
Apr 17th | HP Mini-Note gets unboxed, causes extreme jealousy | Small photo gallery. Not much interesting detail. |
Apr 8th | Mini-notebook boasts Linux, near-fullsize keyboard | Only piece with a photo of the external drive |
Apr 8th | HP 2133 Mini-Note PC Small & Medium Business | HP specs page and online store. Oddly, “FreeDOS”:Wikipedia:FreeDOS is one of the available OS options, right after SuSE… |
Apr 8th | HP 2133 Mini-Note Review | Another video review and plenty of side shots detailing the ports. Also, the only review so far with a heat map of sorts. |
Apr 8th | HP 2133 Mini-Note: Videos, Specs, Photo Gallery | Great gallery. Mentions the optional external DVD burner and an $100 cost for extra batteries, plus the fact that it has user-accessible RAM and disk drive |
Apr 8th | New HP education subnotebook ships with SUSE | Brief writeup |
Apr 8th | HP intros Mini-Note micro notebook | Starts at $499 with the base processor, 512MB of memory, a 4GB solid-state drive, and Linux. Goes up to $1,199 with 1.2GHz processor, 1GB RAM and 64GB flash drive |
Apr 7th | First look at the HP Mini-Note UMPC | Pretty thorough video review (running Vista), to go along with this text |