With the rise of Hewlett-Packard - driven by the success of the PC Eee - the first major PC manufacturer on the market for mini-laptops cheap. The HP 2133 "comes first in the United States and Britain on the market and surprised by an unusual hardware. CPU is not rapid power, but it's a big hard disk and a screen of 8, 9 inches offered.As we mentioned last week presented Classmate 2 will also support the Intel 2133 primarily as a training workbook. As Eee-PC, the HP notebook but marketed directly to end users and is not primarily for the business plan that the aircraft Intel. Initially HP will have the device in April 2008 in the United States at a price of 499, - US-dollar offer, in May 2008, and then to Britain for almost 300 - pound on the market. When the HP 2133 also appears in other countries, is not yet clear.
HB 2133
HB 2133
When designing HP has over traditional subnotebooks because, in the meantime many mini-computers of the type Eee-based PC. Thus, the base area a little higher, but room for a keyboard with 92 percent of the size of the buttons office. The WXGA with a 8.9-inch diagonal fills the cover is not completely out of left to right, sitting speaker. What exactly is the resolution, HP could not comment yet. The casing of the device is made of aluminum.
As dessert processor VIA C7-M ULV at 1.2 GHz. The presented in 2005 and since 2006 also installed UMPC CPU is not exactly like horse racing, and is also the past in numerous mini-notebook Celeron used with less than 1 GHz much lower. VIA Isaiah new design is part of the HP-dwarf that is not yet used.
About the chipset silent HP outstanding - probably is the 1-chip solution VIA CX700. When memory HP has not saved, the 2133 is available in two variants with 1 or 2 GB of DDR memory. Also, the magnetic disk 120 GB is a mini-computer in this price category luxuriantly. Whether a model 1.8 inches, or if the largest housing through a 2.5-inch disc was conditional, is not yet known. The disc is sturzsicher and will be out of sudden accelerations.
The interface is compatible with the equipment Fast Ethernet, 802.11b wireless / g and Bluetooth and VGA, VGA camera and two USB 2.0 ports completely - the 56k modem, the 2133 does not offer all the mini-laptops . A real peculiarity is in this category of slot machines for Express Cards. A UMTS modem can be as easy to renovate. An optical drive is not in the cabinet.
The operating system is a modified version Suse Linux is used, the largest model with 2 GB of RAM HP will also offer Windows Vista Business. Is a choice of two batteries, each with 3 or 6-cell, 4.5 or 2 hours to reach maturity. With the small batteries weighs the Mini-Notebook 1.27 kilograms, which is already in the region of subnotebooks conventional approaches, but much more expensive. The 920 grams of Eee-PC 2133 has reached its largest area. The exact dimensions are not yet available, HP announced so far only, the case is 27 to 33 millimetres thick
