Both the 2133 and 2140 share the aluminium finish, giving the netbook a professional look, as well as providing an excellent keyboard, which is very easy to use with it’s wide keys. Specifications wise though, the 2140 shares the features found on the 1000, including an Intel Atom N270 processor, giving the 2140 more power than the 2133.

The HP Mini 2140 is described as being the “business class” version of the Mini 1000, owing to it’s looks, unparalleled build quality and fantastic keyboard. The 2140 takes portability to a new level with Drive Guard technology, meaning if you drop it while travelling, the hard drive will be shut down, reducing the risk level of lost data. While portability is a high priority of the 2140, with it’s glossy screen, the netbook is hard to use outside and suited more to indoor use.

Other differences in the netbooks include a full sized VGA port on the 2140, as well as the Mini 2140 being slightly heavier and thicker. Unfortunately the number of USB ports on the netbook hasn’t been increased and remains at 2.

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HP Mini 2140 photo comparison against HP Mini 1000

The Asus Eee PC has already had the Windows 7 treatment and it ran pretty well on the new Microsoft operating system, the pre-beta version anyway. Next netbook up to take the Windows 7 test was the MSI Wind and sure enough, it ran the OS well and passed the test with flying stars. Of course, feeling a little left out and sure that it could compete with it’s Atom based netbook cousins, the HP 2133 Mini-Note came along shortly after and has also been tested running Windows 7. Unfortunately the results aren’t quite so impressive for the HP netbook.

The MSI Wind U100 was tested by Lee Mathews, who previously tested Windows Vista successfully on his Wind.  The test was positive generally with Lee commenting that he “was a little disappointed to have the same missing drivers (wireless, LAN, display) but the original MSI XP drivers worked just fine” but his general summary of this netbook experiment was that considering the edition of the OS installed on the Wind – Windows 7 Ultimate Edition, the MSI netbook was “running great”.

Now for the less impressive test. Over at HP Mini Guide the guys have tested the HP Mini-Note in similar fashion, loading the 2133 up with Windows 7 and letting it run and unsurprisingly, the Mini-Note struggled to run very far. To be fair, the HP netbook isn’t a powerful Atom based netbook like the Eee PC and the Wind, coming fitted with a VIA C7-M processor, so less was expected of it. The install took 25 minutes and the result was that Windows 7 ran a little faster than Vista on the HP but, not as fast as Windows XP.

Overall it’s encouraging to see Windows 7 running at all on netbooks without a specific mobile edition and the Wind/Eee PC results are a good indication of what an Atom based netbook can cope with.

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Windows 7 Tested on Wind and Mini-Note

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Ms Kitagawa, an anaylst from the research company Gartner, predicts that worldwide PC shipments will grow by 14% in Q4, but much of that is predicted to come from netbooks.

HP have already joined the netbook world and yesterday reduced the price of their Mini-Note 2133. Many hoped this would pave way for a newer netbook from HP. And it looks like this could be the case. WSJ also reports, that HP is planning to release a 10 inch netbook later this year to capitalize on the netbook growth. It won’t however feature a touch screen.

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HP to release 10 inch netbook

jkOnTheRun have received a promotional email from HP showing that their Mini-Note netbook has now been reduced in price.

The base model is now available for $399, a whopping $100 off the original price. The base model of the Mini-Note comes with a Via processor, 4GB SSD, SUSE Linux and 512MB RAM. The next model up from the base is fitted with a 120GB hard drive, 1GB RAM and Windows XP, and this ‘top’ model of netbook from HP now sells at the reduced price of $499.

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HP Mini-Note Now Even Cheaper

Despite it’s popularity and good reviews, it seems there could be a problem with the HP. There have been reports of the Mini Note simply going black and not booting back up. The advice being given is that the issue is being caused by a motherboard failure of some kind. Time will tell if the problem is going to effect more than a handful of Mini Note’s, hopefully not.

Via: Engadget

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HP Mini-Note 2133 getting black screens