New HP Netbook

While I find the insanely flooded Netbook market intriguing and possibly the future of mobile computing, it is easy to get tired by the same old, same old.

HP's new Netbook, the Mini 1000, is not the biggest jump from the typical netbook, containing "10.2-inch netbook that comes in at under 2.5 pounds and packs a 1.6 Ghz Atom processor, 16 GB SSD and up to 2 GB RAM " [Gizmodo]

What will make this netbook different in the future is the custom OS developed by HP. Currently the Mini 1000 runs a version of XP, which is common in the Netbook realm. 

The OS is said to be based on a version of Ubuntu, a Linux distro.

While this is new to the current market, it is not new all together. Hopefully this time around the new OS will be more user friendly and less of a software engineers toy.

Lightning Review: HP 2133 Mini-Note

The peeps at Gizmodo have handed down the verdict on the HP 2133 Mini Laptop. Click here to get the full deal.

The Price seems a bit high (for the $750 model) but it does seem to be a good fighter against the Asus Eee!

HP 2133 UMPC Reviewed

I'll have to say that I didn't know this was even coming out. It is impressive, yet out of what I would consider to be the Eee or Cloudbook price range (speculation). There is not hard pricing set. But if you look at the spec, you can see where it would be $100 - $200 more.

It also runs SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10. I do not believe that this version of SuSE is free either. The screen shot looks like Vista to me.

Hopefully more will be available soon on this machine. But as for now, I feel it to be close to the Eee / Cloudbook market. LINK