It’s been a hectic week at Mobile Tech Manor and I just realized today I have not given any recent updates on how well the HP 2133 Mini-Note is working for me. You may recall I downgraded upgraded from Vista Business to XP Pro a while back and have been using it with XP since then. I am happy to report the Mini-Note is a veritable tiger running XP, sure it won’t set any speed records but it multi-tasks and performs like a champ. The Via C7 processor it uses won’t make any skid marks on the pavement but with XP it is more than adequate for just about everything I need to do. I wouldn’t do any video or audio encoding on it as that would take too long on such an anemic processor but it handles everything else I want to do. I am still impressed with the nice keyboard on the Mini-Note and find it very comfortable to type for a long time on it.
I would so love for HP to update the 2133 with a Via Nano, that would be absolutely dynamite. Maybe they’ll say something at their big press event in Berlin next week. I was invited to attend that event on HP’s dime but my schedule just wouldn’t permit so I’ll be looking for news to come out of the event with hope. I don’t think they will announce anything about the Mini-Note this soon, though, after all it’s just been out for a short while. I attended a meeting with HP last week and I think I am aware of everything they will announce next week and I’ll share that with you when the embargo lifts. There is some pretty cool stuff coming from the folks at HP, I can tell you that.
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