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FIRST LOOK: HP Mini-Note 2133, makes my leg feel like it's on fire

Wednesday May 14, 2008
AUD
$899
Price at time of review.

We're worried about the damn hot operating temperature, but otherwise we're blown away by this mini notebook.

FIRST LOOK: HP Mini-Note 2133, makes my leg feel like it's on fire
3 out of 6

"very hot"

Pros:
light,slick,very good screen

Cons:
too hot,
HP's new mini note pc burns my leg of .i only have that to say
5 out of 6

"I LOVE IT"

Pros:
Brilliant multi resolution screen
Magnesium alloy material
Keyboard is big and solid
Large hard drive
Light weight and small footprint
It just looks fantastic
Easy to carry around


Cons:
No protective sleeve in the box to carry the 2133 around, as per the Eee pc
I purchased an Eee PC 900 first, but the small drive was too limiting. I exchanged that for the HP 2133. It cost an extra $250 but it was worth every cent. The 2133 is very well built, it looks fantastic and the screen is brilliant. The specs aren't high, (1.6GHz cpu, 1Gb ram, 120Gb drive and Vista basic. For office apps, email and internet, it is more than enough. It has express card and SD card slots for adding more space/apps etc and bluetooth for quick file transfers. The manual says that you can upgrade both the processor and ram (underneath the keyboard) if money is no object. I have had it for 2 days and absolutely love it. I run softmaker office, outlook 2007 and a couple of games with no problems at all. I have even copied a dvd movie onto a maxtor external drive and played it on the 2133 with Power DVD.
5 out of 6

"Not too bad"

Pros:
160GB HDD
Slick looking
Awesome keyboard

Cons:
Runs hot
Noisy fan
A little slow compared to my 14.1" XP notebook