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		<title>HP 2133 Mini-Note</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>I just had the opportunity to use an <a href="http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/en/WF05a/321957-321957-64295-321838-306995-3687084.html" target="_blank">HP 2133 Mini-Note PC</a> for a few weeks. Here are some high-level notes on it.</p> Overall this is a very nice computer. Performance wasn&#8217;t all that great. It feels a little sluggish. I&#8217;ve gotta think that the VIA processor was not the best choice here [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just had the opportunity to use an <a href="http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/en/WF05a/321957-321957-64295-321838-306995-3687084.html" target="_blank">HP 2133 Mini-Note PC</a> for a few weeks. Here are some high-level notes on it.</p>
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<li> Overall this is a very nice computer.</li>
<li>Performance wasn&#8217;t all that great. It feels a little sluggish. I&#8217;ve gotta think that the VIA processor was not the best choice here vs. Intel&#8217;s Atom stuff.</li>
<li>I like the keyboard layout better than other &#8220;netbooks&#8221; I&#8217;ve looked at. I think the wider form factor is a better choice in this space than a lot of the narrower designs out there.</li>
<li>The 92% keyboard wasn&#8217;t really an issue at all on this model since the layout is so good.</li>
<li>I had a lot of trouble getting used to the mouse buttons on the side of the touchpad.</li>
<li>I think that SSD&#8217;s are now a requirement in this space. I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re offered on this model.</li>
<li>I don&#8217;t like how the 3-cell battery is only an option on the Linux-based SKUs. This thing is definitely too heavy for this category &#8212; mostly because of the 6-cell battery that&#8217;s required when licensing Windows with it.</li>
<li>There are some folks who will _never_ accept a unit that doesn&#8217;t have a trackpoint device. The netbook category needs to address this somehow.</li>
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HP has the even more &#8220;netbook&#8221;-like <a href="http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/mini1000" target="_blank">Mini 1000</a> series. It would be nice to look at those, but it seems like at the moment, they&#8217;re positioning those as &#8220;home&#8221; computers only. I wonder whether they will  offer a &#8220;business&#8221; model in that line. It appears that all these PC vendors are afraid of cannibalizing their corporate sales if they offer this kind of thing. Possibly true, but someone&#8217;s going to do it and business will definitely flow in their direction.</p>
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