DesignThe 2133 is undoubtedly the most attractive of all the laptops in its class and has the look and feel of a far more expensive device. The brushed aluminium lid and curvy magnesium alloy chassis make a welcome change from the toy-like Eee PC and its various rivals. Don't be surprised if your colleagues, fellow commuters and potential muggers can't take their eyes -- and fingers -- off it.
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Conclusion There are plenty of reasons to love the HP 2133. It's affordable, it's impossibly attractive and it's more comfortable to use than any of its immediate competitors. Its performance is disappointing, however, and we don't like the fact it doesn't include a built-in 3G datacard. We'd recommend it to people who aren't concerned about the performance issue, but for the rest of us, the Eee PC is the mini-laptop machine of choice.
Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). Very easy installation, the only thing that didn't work straight away was the Broadcom wireless adapter, and Ubuntu notified me that proprietary drivers are available for that. One perhaps not totally obvious note, you have to be connected to the Internet in order to use the Hardware Drivers utility to download and install the Broadcom driver, so make sure you set up either a wired network or a wireless broadband connection first. The alternative, of course, would be to download the package to another computer, transfer the files to the 2133 and then install from that.
So, there they are, all working very nicely on the little Mini-Note now. I think this provides an important illustration of how quickly Linux develops support for new devices. When I first got an HP 2133, a bit over a year ago, it was difficult and tedious to install Linux, and nearly impossible to find drivers for some parts of it. Today, installing Linux is basically a snooze, it took somewhere between 30 minutes and two hours, depending on how many drivers had to be downloaded separately after installation.
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