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Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny) Released
Blog HP 2133 Mini-Note: VIA C-7 CPU, Chrome 9 display controller. HP AlphaServer DS10: Alpha CPU, no graphics, serial console. The installation on the HP Mini-Note was amazingly easy, and I expected it to be rather difficult.
[February 16, 2009, 13:03]
What Do We Expect from Netbooks?
Blog Now, this has to be qualified with the fact that I have never tried any other netbook, and in particular I have never tried one with an Intel Atom CPU (the Mini-Note has a VIA C-7M CPU), but that is one of the reasons I am posting this for...
[March 26, 2009, 10:38]
MSI Wind: a first look review
Reviews It also humbles HP's 2133 Mini-Note, which has just two USB ports. This isn't particularly high (especially considering the 8.9in.screen on the HP 2133 Mini-Note runs at 1,280 by 768 pixels), but that's no bad thing.
[June 2, 2008, 11:50]
HP "Entertainment PC" Revisited
Blog The 2133 has a VIA C7-M CPU and VIA Chrome 9 graphic controller; the 2140 was a very standard Intel Atom based system, and the new 1010ez has an AMD Athlon Neo CPU and ATI Radeon graphic controller. Mini-Note, low resolution (1024x600), Linux...
[September 29, 2009, 14:27]
Moblin on the Nettop - First Steps
Blog I've wanted to look at moblin for quite some time, but had held back because my HP Mini-Note netbooks have VIA cpu and graphic chips, and I've heard that they can be difficult with moblin (and I saw for myself that they are difficult with the...
[June 9, 2009, 11:32]
Which Netbook ? Help !
Blog Comment Utz, have you looked at the HP 2133 Mini Note? It has a VIA CPU, rather than the typical Intel Atom for these things, if that matters to you. I know that it has a standard external VGA connector, and I just got an advert with a huge price cut on it...
[January 21, 2009, 11:44]
HP Mini 2140 review
Reviews The HP Mini 2140 shares the same basic silhouette as the earlier Mini-Note 2133 and Mini 1000. It retains the aluminium construction and big keyboard, but updates the components to an Intel Atom CPU, adding an accelerometer for the hard drive and a...
[February 3, 2009, 14:34]
CPU Frequency Scaling
Blog Sure enough, it did the trick - as soon as I rebooted, the CPU monitor showed the frequency dropping from 1.6GHz to 800 MHz when the system was idle, the cooling fan didn't run nearly as much (mostly not at all), and the bottom of the Mini-Note...
[April 3, 2009, 14:03]
HP Mini 2140 - Strongly Recommended!
Blog As far as I can tell, the packaging of the HP 2140 is identical to that of my HP 2133 Mini-Note. Once I got past the problem with the BIOS setup claiming that it had a Dual Core CPU, loading UNR 9.04 was easy.
[July 7, 2009, 9:33]
ecoquiet RM ONE 50: a first look review
Reviews The ecoquiet RM ONE 50 is built around Intel's Mini-ITX D945GCLF motherboard: note that the big heatsink and fan are on the 945CG chipset rather than the CPU. Although the 45nm single-core/dual-thread Atom chip has been widely talked up as a CPU...
[June 3, 2008, 13:20]
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Beta
Blog CPU Frequency Scaling works on the VIA C7-M CPU (HP 2133 Mini-Note), without having to edit the kernel boot line. HP 2133 Mini, VIA C7-M HP db2-1010ez, AMD Athlon Neo I've been installing the Karmic Beta release on everything I have around here...
[October 9, 2009, 14:03]
Dell Inspiron Mini 12 muscles in on notebook turf
News Like the Inspiron Mini 9, the Mini 12 is powered by Intel's Atom, a CPU choice that helps justify Dell's designation of the machine as a netbook. This use of a platter drive is a characteristic that the Mini 12 shares with HP's 2133 Mini-Note PC.
[October 27, 2008, 15:42]
Acer Aspire One D150 review
Reviews With Intel's 1.6GHz Atom N270 CPU, specifically designed for low-power netbooks, you get enough computing power for basic tasks, such as web surfing, working on documents and some basic multimedia playback.
[February 12, 2009, 11:21]
Via Nano to take on Intel's Atom
News The Via C7 chipset powers HP's Mini-Note PC. Taiwanese chip manufacturer Via Technologies has released a new energy-efficient CPU, the Via Nano, which will go head-to-head with Intel's latest mobile processor, Atom.
[June 2, 2008, 8:41]
Mandriva One 2010 RC2
Blog On the HP 2133 Mini-Note (VIA C7-M CPU), it still did not get CPU frequency scaling activated. The other two were both AMD CPU / ATI graphic systems. The first of those was my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510, which is a pretty standard Intel Core2 Duo CPU...
[October 14, 2009, 14:12]
Fedora 11
Blog I wasn't able to install it at all on my HP 2133 Mini-Note systems. Now, to be fair, this is only an Atom-based system, but as it is a pretty well equipped dual CPU Atom system, I suppose this means that I wouldn't be rushing right out to put...
[June 28, 2009, 8:18]
Dell Adamo review
Reviews But it's important to note that the ultra-low voltage Intel Core 2 Duo processor used in the Adamo runs rings around other recent slim notebooks, such as the HP Pavilion dv2 (with AMD's new Athlon Neo CPU).
[April 14, 2009, 13:33]
Fair is Fair - Ubuntu Netbook Remix
Blog I've mentioned several times that I have tried it, very briefly, on the HP Mini-Note, and the VIA CPU and Graphic adapter caused it to be unusably slow. Ok, so I realized that if I'm going to be fair about this, in addition to trying Moblin on the...
[June 10, 2009, 20:43]
HP Mini 2140 - I Get To Try One!
Blog I already own an HP 2133 Mini-Note (wouldn't it be nice if they would be more consistent about naming/numbering similar models? There are crucial differences in the internals, though, the most significant of which is the Intel Atom 270 CPU, rather...
[July 1, 2009, 15:41]
You Definitely Need to Try Linux Again
Talkback My purchase of an HP 2133 Mini-Note netbook was a good example of that; when I bought it, there were all sorts of problems with loading Linux because of the VIA C7-M CPU and VIA Chrome graphic adapter.
[July 2, 2009, 20:00]
