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HP2133 Mini Notebook, Mini Review

Posted by Jake in Misc on 24 Jun 2008 | 6 Comments

Well trying to get the latest Tactile CRM newsletter sorted has lead me to buying my first windows machine in who knows how long (about 9 years I think). It is preloaded with Vista business, and apart from the arduous process of getting it started the first time (about 40 minutes for pre-installed windows to work out what it wanted to do, and the HP software too) seems OK.

It’s not going to replace the MacBook as a ‘no-holds-bar’d-on-the-move-desktop-replacement-machine’, but is certainly useful on the train due to its small size (it happily fits on the seat back trays you get on the Virgin trains, unlike the MacBook).

The main probelms I have with it so far are the sensitivity of the mouse, which I will be able to fix, and the huge power cable you get with it. Why design a nice small laptop, only to include a standard HP power supply that practically doubles the size of the thing!

I’m trying to steer clear of Vsta as much as possible, but will try to install Leopard (OS X) on it over the weekend and see what happens with that (note to self, find the restore procedure for the laptop before starting). In the meantime, here is my current screen shot of OS X Leopard on the HP 2133:

OS X on HP 2133

6 Comments

  1. Congrats! I bought the same computer precisely for use on the train. It has almost completely replaced my Macbook Pro. I am very interested in your experiment with Leopard on it, though. Good luck!

    Kenneth / 24 Jun 2008 / 9:58 am

  2. I think HP have a SKU with Linux preloaded so it should Ubuntu/Fedora/OpenSUSE should run nicely on it and make for a neat little on the go machine.

    Paul Cooper / 27 Jun 2008 / 5:20 pm

  3. @Paul: Yes I was going to get that, but unfortunately I actually needed the copy of Windows that came with it!

    Jake Stride / 30 Jun 2008 / 8:07 am

  4. So whats up? Did leopard run on the HP 2133??

    Maikel S / 02 Sep 2008 / 7:04 pm

  5. did Leopard work?

    Marc / 14 Dec 2008 / 5:32 am

  6. and why not a tiger (10.4) install, maybe faster and easy

    moutarde / 03 Jan 2009 / 2:26 pm