All thanks to the folks at Starhub, I received a HP 2133 Mini-Note PC about two days back upon signing away two years of my home broadband life with them. Although I am initially impressed with its small, lightweight, metallic and sleek form giving that expensive executive laptop feel, I can’t seem to figure out why HP chose to install the ever so resource intensive Windows Vista Basic on their tiny VIA C7®-M ULV Processor 1.2 GHz and just 1 GB ram.
Woah don’t get me wrong, I am happy to receive this nice little free gift from Starhub and heck I appreciate HP’s involvement (somehow) with the deal. Its just that I find it frustrating at times to wait forever to boot up, wait for another eternity for a program start and then another endless waiting for the shut down process. However, to be fair, I am comparing my HP 2133 to my not-so-new Macbook, which honestly is not much of a challenge. I am not about to go into specifics or a mini review for the fear that this might end up to be a complain article which I am always trying to avoid. Adding to that, I don’t want to seem ungrateful for this gift.
I guess as Ultra Mobile PC or UMPC goes, it is not exactly the workhorse I am looking for. But I can see myself sipping that cup of java at some Starbucks or some coffee joint while typing furiously on this “workpony”. Moving on, I think I am going to downgrade this baby to a Windows XP instead….yeah… 
Left and right: The HP 2133 Mini-Note PC
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I have the 1.6GHz and 2Gigs of RAM and I am already having a headache at the slowness of it. But it’s size and built is great!
I am also thinking of downgrading it to vista!
Bro…put it on linux!
Power saving…resource saving!
Krisandro: Hi and thanks for visiting my site. I feel your pain there man, especially running on a lower performance specs than yours. But you got that right tho, the built is fantastic and the keyboard is nice for my fat fingers.
Are you downgrading to MS XP SP3? Coz yours is running on Vista oredi yeah?
KP: yeah man..now reading up on how to dual boot it on Unbuntu..at least try lah hor?
I think Krisandro was trying to say he wants to downgrade to XP ba. haha!
Love the steadiness and beautiful construction of HP mini. But ya, slow thou.
whoops! Yeah I meant I wanna downgrade to XP! WAHHAHAHAAA
Claudia: Hehe..yeah I think so too man. I must say the construction is amazing man..just the internals I am not too excited about
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Krisandro: Hehe..yeah man..lemme know how ur downgrade goes man, I am quite keen actually