HP 2133 shows up on Amazon as the Mini-Note PC

It looks like the rumors of HP launching the sexy 2133 UMPC today were off the mark, but it certainly does seem like the diminutive laptop is coming soon -- placeholder pages for an "HP 2133 Mini-Note PC" have popped up at Amazon and other retailers. That's the first we've heard of the Mini-Note name, which is interesting in terribly uncreative way, but we're slightly more intrigued by the addition of a 1.0GHz SuSE model with 4GB of flash instead of a hard drive -- we'd originally heard that the 2133 would come in such a configuration, but none of the specs we'd seen so far had mentioned it. Of course, an empty Amazon product page with no pricing information doesn't make the 2133 any more official, but we've got a feeling it's pretty close -- come on HP, we know you're confident, let's see what you're hiding back there.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Read - Amazon product page for the 1.2GHz / 120GB config
Read - Amazon product page for the 1.0GHz / 4GB flash config
Read - Product listing on compsource.com

[bethel03 @ Apr 7th 2008 10:18PM]

Install XP on the SuSE edition and I'd say you'd have quite the EEE killer, both in looks and performance.

[johnmc @ Apr 7th 2008 10:46PM]

You spelled Ubuntu wrong.

[Jon Doe. @ Apr 8th 2008 12:00AM]

That's because no one uses it enough to know the word to get it right.

[The Angry Intern @ Apr 8th 2008 12:00AM]

@johnmc: lol! I see what you did there!

[Braden @ Apr 7th 2008 10:19PM]

There is pricing info on the compsource page.

[James @ Apr 7th 2008 10:22PM]

And if you even ask about doom, I'll... I don't know what I'll do.

I'll probably be killed just for brining this up.

[Flashpoint @ Apr 7th 2008 10:35PM]

But, IT CAN PLAY DOOM !


You just gotta figure out a way to install it without an optical drive.

[mushrooshi @ Apr 7th 2008 11:28PM]

Its *run*, not *play*.

And HELLOOOOO... ISOs?

[iofthestorm @ Apr 7th 2008 11:48PM]

Package management systems anyone? Flash drives? The [bleeping] internet? With any luck, optical drives will go the way of the floppy within the next 5 years.

[N00bicals @ Apr 7th 2008 10:23PM]

product dimensions = 5.3lbs???

[imacmatt09 @ Apr 7th 2008 10:24PM]

The box man. All the contents of the box.

[masteroffm @ Apr 10th 2008 7:58PM]

when i first saw the weight I was confused because i know from ordering a toughbook W7 that it only weighs 3.0 lbs, but then quickly realized that would have to be the shipping weight for the box.

[davidmkroh @ Apr 7th 2008 10:23PM]

so this thing is going to come in a little over 5 lbs ...how disappointing...

[Derek @ Apr 7th 2008 11:20PM]

I sure hope you are joking.

[Vance @ Apr 7th 2008 10:26PM]

PC World gets their mitts on the uninteresting top-end version with Vista. (Heh, they recommend that you install XP.)

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,144222-c,notebooks/article.html

I'll take the entry-level 4gig flash drive with Linux.

[bethel03 @ Apr 7th 2008 10:37PM]

And they're saying the Vista machine with a HD is 2 lbs 13 ounces, meaning the 4GB flash version will be even a little less. Nice!!

[robothouse @ Apr 7th 2008 11:39PM]

Vista? On a Mini-Note? It's more likely than you think....


...Kidding. Seriously though, talk about bogging down an already low end system. Can't imagine the lag.

[shawn.zenz @ Apr 7th 2008 10:35PM]

too expensive!! $520 on the low end? come on! They should be trying to beat the $399 eeepc.

[Genjinaro @ Apr 7th 2008 10:45PM]

Agreed, it doesn't cost much to make the Eee match this either, Eee PC wins.

[perfectionist @ Apr 7th 2008 11:14PM]

Well, this has a 8.9" screen. More comparable with the EEE PC 900 which is also expected to start at ~$499.

EEE PC 900
- 8GB storage
- 1GB RAM
- 1024x600 res
- Plastic

HP 2133
- 4GB storage
- 512MB RAM
- 1280x768 res
- Anodized aluminum

[Eh @ Apr 7th 2008 10:47PM]

Over $500? Epic fail. This thing doesnt compete with the EEE, its in a different market, the market of overpriced gadgets that nobody can afford. Its a shame because it has the looks to really give the EEE a run for its money.

[Wisam @ Apr 7th 2008 11:21PM]

Anything over 400$ would fail the epic. I agree. However, I like the look of this one but if it is under the Eee specs who cares for the look, right?
Eeeeeeeeeeee

[Eh @ Apr 8th 2008 12:43AM]

I dont care that much about power as long as its able to handle non-gaming tasks in a normal OS. I care mostly about price. This thing costs more than real laptops, which is just stupid, there are tons of regular laptops out there for $500 that are way better than this rip off. The EEE is so great because of its price, it opens up an entirely new market, before the EEE you could not buy a computer that ran a real OS for less than $500, the only stuff that came close were PDA's that ran a stripped down OS that wasnt very useful. If these companies cant offer a computer like the EEE for less than $400 then they are just wasting their time.

[w00fy @ Apr 7th 2008 11:07PM]

VIA C7 CPU = dealbreaker for me.

All around inferior to the already nicely speced Asus eee.

[Mike @ Apr 7th 2008 11:18PM]

Care to share why a C7 is a dealbreaker?

[Russell @ Apr 7th 2008 11:29PM]

C7 = super fail, even at 1ghz it'll be like a 500mhz Pentium III mobile

[Jonny @ Apr 7th 2008 11:43PM]

VIA C7 = 500 MHz Pentium III in performance.

Yikes.

Our cash registers at work all run C7s.

Just surfing the web it jumps when you scroll.

And when you try to ring someone up, it'll stall for a minute or two while it thinks, or prints, or anything.

Ugh.

[PRP @ Apr 7th 2008 11:16PM]

It sure looks sexy

... but if I could afford to pay significantly more for sexy, I wouldn't be getting my hookers from street corners

[phanbouy @ Apr 7th 2008 11:22PM]

you win

[robothouse @ Apr 7th 2008 11:47PM]

No, you would be getting them from the Emperor's Club.

[Joshua Engel @ Apr 7th 2008 11:17PM]

http://www.compsource.com/keywordresult_next.asp?keyword_list=hp+2133

some real specs

[Tired_ @ Apr 7th 2008 11:22PM]

I was excited about this when they published the first pics and Engadget hinted at Penryn being inside. I was looking at the slightly-better-than 720p resolution, thinking there'd be a decent CPU and chipset in it for the price they were asking, and dreaming about the USB TV tuner that'd have made this a pretty nice cheap portable HDTV. Now, I hear it has a VIA CPU (not a fatal flaw, if the proper supports are there) and VIA video (this would be the fatal flaw). I wouldn't be confident in this systems ability to play my standard definition H264-encoded stuff, let alone anything HDTV.

To any OEM that's listening...I want one of these little cheap laptops, optimized for video. Get hooked up with AMD, have them dream up some kind of cool ultra-low-power chipset with their ATI video hardware in there, and get building. Under $500, please.

[phanbouy @ Apr 7th 2008 11:27PM]

Virusy(TM) thumb drive Not Included

[jb @ Apr 7th 2008 11:34PM]

Anyone remember the sony picturebook? I had one 6+ years ago, secondhand. In 8 years, this is the best we can come up with? It had a small form factor, webcam, pc card slot, usb, awesome battery. Granted this does improve upon display, speed, features, ... but I'm not sure it was worth waiting 8 years for.

[jd @ Apr 7th 2008 11:38PM]

my definition of UMPC:

- UNDER 399$
- HD: 4gig+
- cpu: 1gigz+
- 9 inch screen
- no fan
- other usual spec: wireless,keyboard...

rant: if hp charge 500for a umpc, why dont i just get a real laptop from ibm instead? did they ever thought about that?

[Tri Sap @ Apr 7th 2008 11:58PM]

i've been waiting for this! but oos!?

[Keith @ Apr 8th 2008 12:06AM]

Check it out www.jkontherun.com review.... :)

[Magenta @ Apr 8th 2008 12:10AM]

Overpriced, underspeced, dead meat when the eee 900 and the Acer gets to market in another month or two with the Intel Atom processor.

The 3 cell battery is a joke.

Not offering Windows XP which is the only serious Microsoft OS for the product is a disaster.

I am going to either pick up the eee 900 or more likely, the Acer.


The way they priced this thing, you might as well wait until July for a Penryn / Mercanto Laptop for $1,000.

[Justin @ Apr 8th 2008 12:15AM]

Hey, there's a review up on notebookreview.com.

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4352

[ToniCipriani @ Apr 8th 2008 12:17AM]

5.3 pounds... WAY too heavy. That's what most 13.3" or even 15" laptops weigh.

What's the point of lugging this thing around?

[Adam Wroblaski @ Apr 8th 2008 12:50AM]

as has been discussed in previous posts; 5.3 pounds is surely the weight including the packaging. Reviewers say it weighs 2.86 pounds.

[ToniCipriani @ Apr 8th 2008 12:52AM]

Hmm... that's much better then...

[con @ Apr 8th 2008 11:14PM]

We are so close to getting my perfect dream machine, yet the recent slew of these devices fall too far short, with the OLPC being the closest to being my dream machine (the tiny keyboard is my biggest complaint and the rubber bumpers that have already started to come off mine is other big con). All of these devices should have a low-watt fanless processor that is housed behind the monitor so your legs don't get burnt. A sunlight readable display with a high resolution like the OLPC should also be standard in these devices since I could see people using them to blog outdoors. A tablet mode is also important. And the one thing that I have not seen in any of these devices (particularly the SSD only devices like the EEE) is a to be able to access the motherboard easily so that you could upgrade the onboard flash storage by simply swapping out SDHC as higher capcity units become available. I hate having to tie up my one SDHC slot on my OLPC when I use it to boot alternate OS's when it probably would have been easy to put another SDHC somewhere on the motherboard instead of soldering the measly 1 gb of storage that comes with it to the motherboard.