I thought the 2100 series netbooks from HP was dead and buried with the introduction of the HP Mini 1000 range, but apparently not. The HP MiniNote 2133 has risen from the grave, and is reincarnated as the “2140 notebook PC”. Eh? Waddat? ”Notebook PC”, I hear you say? Yep – since the owners of the trademark “netbook” – Psion – started sending out threatening legal letters to websites telling them to “cease and desist” from using the “netbook” term, manufacturers have had to find ways to avoid using the term netbook. That just sucks.
Damn, netbooks have got more lives than a cat. It’s a sign of the challenging times that we live in today that HP has to resort to recycling a previously-thought-dead product as perhaps a “stop-gap” measure while they fiddle with the design of a newer netbook model.
Specifications:
- Intel Atom 1.6Ghz processor
- 10″ screen at 1366 x 768 resolution (not good!)
- ExpressCard/54 slot
- keyboard with 92% of a “normal” keyboard’s size
- 160Gb hard disk with option for solid state disk
- choice of Windows XP (Home or Professional), SuSE Linux, FreeDOS or Windows Vista (Home Basic and Premium)
Click here for HP US’s website for the Mini 2140. Prices start at US$499, approximately RM 1,750. Not cheap. Not interesting. Availability in the US from “sometime in January”.
