 "EXCELENTE." | 2008-09-23 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1OABVAJ0OC02K |
Siempre estuve buscando una laptop o notebook de ese tamaño, nadie tenía algo así, tan potente, rápida y a un precio realmente accesible, claro que por el tamaño no tiene el lector de CD/DVD pero no me complica ni perjudica pues cuando uno quiere algo hay que estar dispuesto a renunciar a algunas cosas.
Muy recomendable, el Windows Vista Business corre bien y rápido y la batería es genial dura más de 3 horas. Aun no pruebo la webcam pero supongo todo debe estar bien, sino volveré con malos comentarios. PUNO -LAGO TITICACA - PERU. Adeu. |
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 "Save your money: anatomy of a disaster" | 2008-09-19 |
| - Reviewed By dcutrer |
What a mess! I gave the ASUS away, thinking larger keys/screen would be worth the extra price. Here's what I got with the HP 2133:
1. Touch pad sends the cursor bouncing around, you'll spend a minimum couple seconds trying to find it every time you use it.
2. After two weeks of sitting on my credenza, booting up produced ... nothing. The unit wasn't dropped, abused, the OS simply evaporated.
3. HP's website doesn't recognize HP 2133, HP 2133 Mini-Note, etc. You get the idea HP is ashamed of it. The only way to get email to a service tech without a product number is to email the President.
4. The first tech who called quickly realized the OS was ... whatever it was. He shipped a dvd with SUSE on it. I didn't ask the obvious, why didn't HP ship it with the 2133 to begin with. I tried to find tech info, operating manuals on the website. Good luck.
5. The dvd loaded from an stand-alone optical drive, thankfully, I have one.
6. The new OS is as screwed up as the first; of course, installing it wipes out everything on the computer previously. The computer keeps asking for a hd password, advising that the hd (actually the 4gig flash memory) is locked until the right password is entered. Huh? This wasn't on the OS previously.
7. I use the same password for everything, I assumed it was from something on the OS before it blew up. That password doesn't work on the 2133. After four wrong guesses the OS finally proceeds, recognizes f9, f10, f11, etc. However, without the password, it's a circular firing squad, back and forth, till I give up. There's a list of possible generic passwords for SUSE on the Internet. None of them work.
8. I wrote the President of HP again, got an email from the head of the linux hp 2133 unit, or something like that. Who hasn't returned my calls or emails. He did suggest via email that I should send the 2133 to him so he could straighten out the mess. That's a first, and confirmation for me that HP recognizes what a disaster it has brewing.
9. Maybe I didn't know where to find the program, before it blew up I tried to watch movies, .avi and .mpg formats. Neither of which worked. I've finally found a linux movie player on the internet, problem is, I can't access the computer to add it or test it.
10. I've loaded the OS from the dvd three or four times, after loading I get the 'enter password' screen.
11. I like to think I'm a somewhat sophisticated user, I go back to TRS-DOS. Open Office, Firefox, work OK. I've found linux requires far more effort to use than XP. That was before it blew up.
12. The cat loves flopping down anywhere the computer has been resting. It's not quite hot enough to fix flapjacks, but it's close.
13. I stopped by Office Depot today to buy an XP for $99. At checkout I saw the small print, 'this is only an upgrade of a prior Windows OS.' Of course, there is no Windows OS. I saved $100, but don't have a notebook computer to take on a trip Monday.
14. Complete XP is $200. Spending $200 on XP to add to the 2133 is foolish, I can buy the Acer Aspire One for not that much more.
15. I told the tech at HP ... I haven't been fishing in decades, but I'll go just to use the HP as a sinker.
16. I've got an order in for Acer Aspire One, $349 for the 1gig 120hd, XP at MicroCenter. The keys are still kinda small and tight, I don't like Bill Gates, etc., but it can't be the disaster the HP has been.
17. Save your money. You'll thank me.
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 "A good choice" | 2008-09-19 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1QDLNAXCRNRCN |
Una notebook excelente para escribir y navegar. Pantalla nitida y clara, sonido perfecto y un buen rendimiento en general. Mi única queja es la batería de 6 celdas que sobresale de la parte de atrás, además que tarda bastante tiempo en cargar.
This notebook is excellent for writing and surf the web. Nice and clear screen, perfect sound and good performance. The only complain is the 6 cells battery, it comes out from the back and takes so long to charge. |
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| "Great piece of Linux hardware, software overhaul required." | 2008-09-18 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1FSFHX54ZBVDS |
Over the last few days I have had the opportunity to deal with SLED 10.1, SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, which ships with the new, and beautiful, machine that I am typing this post on. The experience was educational, if you haven't already convinced yourself that the pseudo open source nature of Novell's pact with Micro$oft is evil, I encourage you try SLED on for size.
First things first, when I booted the computer, it hung, I rebooted, and was greeted with an operating system that had no repositories, well, maybe that's an exaggeration, it had no "real" repos, not that were SLED specific. In addition to this (outrage) inconvenience, (I'm a Debian man, you can tell,) the microphones and camera didn't work. (What! Didn't these folks think any of this through beforehand?)
Alright, with that out of the way, I can tell you that I love the machine, it's solid and awesome in every way that I can think of, now that I have Xubuntu installed.
Installing another operating system on the Linux variant is a must (it's also a must on the windows machines, but you all know that,) SLED is bad, and Eric Hess has written this sweet tutorial:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/HP2133
for the installation of a real operating system onto the 2133, and setting it up to get everything working, (well, there are 2 inconspicuous things that aren't perfect on my machine, but it will get there.)
I don't have an external cdrom drive, nor a Windows machine, and so I followed the instructions here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick
under the "manual" category, to cook up a bootable sd card, which I stole from my camera.
The rest of the instructions, for setup of audio and wifi, worked wonderfully, and now the machine is a sweet piece of work. It's responsive for my needs as an IT specialist and student, and doesn't get too hot to use on my lap in bed (don't block the vents matey!)
Overall, great job HP, Novell will not be getting any recommendations from me, and I am a happy camper. |
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 "HP MINI NOTE 2133" | 2008-09-15 |
| - Reviewed By dcham21099 |
| This would be ok for traveling to check email or to act as a cache for pictures, but it is a little slow and clunky for anything else. It has a habit of notifying you that it is downloading updates and then shutting down in the middle of what you're doing. Vista business does not come with any of the rudimentary games that come with xp and so you can't play freecell or solitaire while waiting for a connection. This little computer is a bit of a disappointment. |
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| "Awesome!" | 2008-09-14 |
| - Reviewed By synacktek |
I've had my mini for a few days now and absolutely love it.
I have been looking at umpcs for a while now. When Dell came out with there mini, I immediately placed an order for the Linux version. The next day, I canceled it. As attractive as an SSD drive is, I'll wait until >128GB is cost effective.
What initially got me looking into these was the desire to have something small to bring with me when on vacation. Lugging around my Dell 17" laptop isn't fun.
Pros:
* Small - easy to carry around, even with the large battery
* Awesome resolution - 1280x768. Others in this class only provide 1024x600. In this day of widescreen LCDs, I don't want to have to scroll back and forth in a browser like it's 1990.
* 120GB 7200rpm hard drive (specs here state 5400rpm)
* Surprisingly good sound quality
* Keyboard is easy to type on after spending some time getting used to it. What was Dell thinking when they designed theirs?
Cons:
* Runs HOT. Don't use this on your lap!
* Pain in the you-know-what to install XP without a USB DVD drive (you have to create the image from an XP or Windows NT system). Linux was a breeze and allows you to re-size an existing partition.
* Via processor. It's not bad, but I'd rather have an Intel Atom CPU
This comes with Vista Business. I use Vista Ultimate exclusively on my PCs and 17" laptop (I'm a C#/C++ developer), so I used it for a day. Vista isn't really the best choice for an ultra-portable. It works, but wasn't quite as snappy as it could be, even after tweaking.
So, since I was going to dual boot Ubuntu anyway, I wiped it clean and installed XP, Office 2007, and all my usual day to day stuff, excluding my development software and CPU-hungry apps like Photoshop. Now it runs more to my satisfaction.
I brought this to work on Friday and everybody gathered around and ooohed and ahhhed over it.
In a nutshell, this is a fantastic ultra portable if you don't do anything too CPU demanding on it (this applies to all of them with the exception of the fantastically expensive Sony). These aren't made for gaming or developing. They're made for day-to-day tasks like email, IM, watching movies, etc. |
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| "Wuao!!!" | 2008-09-08 |
| - Reviewed By jjvaleriol |
| Observando el tamano, la calidad de imagen y el desempeno no queda mas que aceptar que estamos frente a un gran producto, el teclado es bastante grande y se puede utilizar con la facilidad acostumbrada en otros mucho mas grandes, la resolucion de la pantalla y su resolucion son excelentes, muy facil de acceder a redes inalambricas a traves de wifi y sincronizar mi Nokia N95 con su bluetooth, aunque algunas cosas deben ser dichas para ser objetivo... se calienta bastante en la parte inferior, (tal vez es por ser enteramente de cubiertas externas metalicas) y lo otro es el sistema operativo... Windows Vista Business... Estoy esperando un poco mas para migrar el equipo a windows xp, pero en lineas generales les recomiendo este equipo, muy eficiente al contar con su tamano y portabilidad. |
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| "Small size, good price, software no too much nice..." | 2008-09-04 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3JWQURSJ07B5K |
I think that this laptop is a good answer to my expectations for having a ultramobil PC.The aluminium case, the sound and the weight are very good. However as linux user, i must to say that the O.S. choosed, Suse Enterprise, it's too much poor (it is very rare for HP tradition). The equipment crashed often and linux shell is very limited... I made the upgrade to Opensuse 11 KDE and the improvement was amazing, but driver search was not easy, so my advice is: purchase with linux, only if you have enough time and knowledge to fix all software issues.
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| "Mini computer packs Maximum usage" | 2008-08-31 |
| - Reviewed By User: ABDTWY328XKTH |
After reading several reviews of different minis I decided on the HP 2133. Fast service and deliver via Amazon (as usual) and I had it with a few days. I do not find that the 2133 runs as hot as a lot of people have said in the past, no hotter than any other laptop I've owned. The built in wireless is great, picks up the weakest signal and runs with it. The 120 GB HD is more than ample for my needs. RUnning Linux instead of Windows Anything is the way to go for sure. Boots fast, hasn't locked up and multi-tasks lots it's on steroids.
More than worth the money. Buy one now. |
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| "Great Product execpt for Vista" | 2008-08-28 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1Z8EOIAG3FZZU |
| This is a great product but you are pretty much forced into choosing vista (which is horrible) as an operating system. If you were to be able to choose XP you would have a much faster operating system. With only a 1 gb processor the vista really slows it down. Its a shame that Microsoft pushes this product on you. |
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