HP 2133 Mini-Note
March 23rd, 2009
Congrats to Pete in Michigan on winning the Mini 2140!! (Note, I said Missouri earlier but I’m a dork and thought MI was Missouri when it’s MO 
)
Running HPMiniGuide.com for the past year has been a lot of fun. The community that has sprung up around the Mini’s is just incredible and inspiring. I’m so glad to have had this opportunity to talk to all of you and create something to help so many.
So enough with sappy stuff already…as I said the community that has sprung up around the Mini’s has been incredible. The site has gotten over 300,000 page views the past two months and almost two and half million overall:
There’s also over 2000 forum members…I never thought this would ever get that big! (That’s what she said!)
I can’t wait to see what the future holds for this site, the Mini line, and netbooks in general. Maybe a Mini tablet? That’d be sweet!
To wrap things up I’d like to give a special thanks to: (in no particular order)
The totally awesome forum mods zbrown0509 and luvit
Tim Brown – still fighting the good fight for VIA. Hopefully we’ll see some more VIA based netbooks in the future!
Also from the forums, mikez’s “tough love” brand of help. (seriously thanks!)
And last, but definitely not least, the ever friendly Christine Wright. She is the best!
Oh, and viewers like you!
Thanks again everyone!
(PS, go vote for the Mini 2140 in laptop mag’s notebook madness)
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March 17th, 2009
Congrats to Pete in Michigan on winning the Mini 2140!! (Note, I said Missouri earlier but I’m a dork and though MI was Missouri when it’s MO )
The year anniversary of the site is coming up next week and to help celebrate HP has sent a Mini 2140 to be given away on the site!! Up for grabs is the HP Mini 2140 model #KS143UT with the following specs:
- 1.6 Ghz Intel Atom Processor
- 160GB HD
- 10.1″ Screen
- 1GB DDR2 RAM
- and a 3 cell battery
How to Win:
The winner will be randomly chosen from the comments on this post.
How to Enter:
Just leave a comment and make sure you put a valid email in the email field! (Your email will only be used for contacting you in regards to this contest)
More rules:
The drawing will occur on 17:01 March 23rd, 2009 PST
I can only ship to addresses in the US – Sorry!
The Winner will be contacted through the email left with their comment. If no response is received within 48 hours, or the email is invalid, another winner will be randomly drawn.
Void where prohibited
Your comments have to go through moderation so don’t panic if they don’t show up right away!
If you have questions please email them to admin (at) hp2133guide.com or head over to the forums!
Good luck!
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February 9th, 2009
The Mini 2140 was delivered this morning and I took a few pictures comparing it to the 2133.
A few oberservations:
- The 2140 speakers aren’t as loud, but they’re close. Maybe 75% as loud.
- The screen is a bit brighter on the 2140
- The aluminum casing looks a tiny bit darker than the 2133
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January 23rd, 2009
If you’re looking for good deal on a 2133, HP is offering a nice rebate on the KS112UT model of the 2133 Mini-Note. The KS112UT comes equipped with:
- 1.2GHz VIA CPU
- XP Home
- 8.9-inch diagonal WSVGA 1024 x 600
- 1GB memory
- 120GB 5400RPM hard drive
You can pickup one up for $399 and then mail in your rebate for $100. It’s a good deal for $299
Offer details
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January 20th, 2009
HP has the Mini 2140 up for sale on their small/medium business site today. As announced, they start at $499 which gets you XP, 1GB RAM, 160GB 5400RPM HD, Bluetooth, a/b/g/draft-n and a 3 cell battery.
I just purchased the KS157UT which comes with all of the above, except it has a 6 cell battery. (Definitely worth the $30!). It’s supposed to ship on the 27th, but they had a lot of delays shipping the 2133 so who knows if that is really accurate or not. I’ll keep my eye open for it showing up on Newegg and getting it there like last time.
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January 16th, 2009
Digitimes is reporting that HP plans on releasing a couple more Mini-notes within the next six months. The HP Mini 2150 will have a built in 3G module and an 11.6-inch screen. There should also be a 13.3-inch mini-note on the way as well. (Although neither of these are very “mini”)
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January 5th, 2009
HP has listened very closely to our feedback and have announced an updated 2133 called the 2140:
You should notice right off the bat the 2140 has the same aluminum body as the 2133 , but a new 10.1-inch screen. At first availability the screen will be standard definition at 1024×576, but a high definition version at 1366×768 should be available a few months afterward the initial launch. The 2140 also has the same 92% sized spill-resistant keyboard with the DuraKey finish.
What you can’t see is that the 2140 is powered by Intel’s Atom processor instead of the VIA C7-M. The switch to Atom moves the battery life to 4 and half hours with the 3-cell battery and the 6 cell is rated at 8 and a half hours. If those estimates hold up we should have a new netbook battery life king with the 2140…and if you’re still not excited about the update the 2133’s batteries are fully compatible with the 2140! (This might be the single best thing about this upgrade. I was very surprised to hear this)
The only “bad” thing is unfortunately the bigger screen has required the speakers to be moved down to the bottom of the screen. The speakers have been swapped out for the same speakers as the Mini 1000 as well. I haven’t heard anything good or bad about the Mini 1000’s speakers so I can’t say if this really is a huge difference or not. I just know the 2133’s were by far the loudest and clearest laptop speakers I’ve ever heard.
As far as ports and the like the Mini 2140 has the exact same ports at the Mini 2133 so you won’t have to reconfigure your mobile arsenal, for good or bad – Two USB ports, one still should be HP’s special powered one, VGA out, express card slot and a card read. For conectivity options we still have bluetooth and Wireless B/G. No word on 3g connectivity yet, but going off the Mini 1000 I imagine it’s coming.
To sum it up, the 2140 is exactly the same as the 2133 except for the screen, speakers and chipset/cpu choice. Overall these updates are a great improvement to an already outstanding netbook. They should be available sometime this month for purchase…I’ll let you know as soon as I do!
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June 10th, 2008
Today at the Connecting Your World event HP unveiled a heap of new laptops and some other miscellaneous PCs. The most interesting part of their announcement was new Voodoo Envy Laptops. Overall the Envy is even slimmer than the MacBook Air and it looks pretty sweet too. (So it’s not just a clever name) Unfortunately there was no mention of a Mini-Note refresh.
With no announcement of a Nano CPU refresh of the Mini-Note made today, it makes think it might not happen. The Nano is an easy upgrade for HP to make so today would have been perfect to at least announce an updated Mini-Note would be coming soon. Also with the supposed shortage of Intel’s Atom CPU in coming months, the Nano is a great choice. TongFang already has a netbook with Nano in it…why not HP?
On the other hand, it might just be too soon for an upgrade. They might not want to anger any corporate and educational customers that have already bought in on the C7-M models. So it’s hard to say…
At any rate, we’ll just have to wait and see a little longer.
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May 28th, 2008
*UPDATE*
Looks like we may have got some bad info on the batteries… In the comments Heather posted her chat log with an HP rep who said these batteries weren’t for the Mini-Note. So who knows at this point… Sorry for any confusion.
Over on the our forums caelum found some part numbers and xboiledeggx looked them up on the HP Parts Store as and they’re listed as “Part is orderable, please call 1-800-227-8164 for availability.”
#482262-001 3-Cell for $207.10
#482263-001 6-Cell for $191.90
I just spoke with an HP rep who gave me this link for the 3-cell battery that lists it as “Part is in stock” instead of call for availability. Not sure what the difference is yet. Unfortunately the battery is $207.10…ouch. She said the 6-cell battery part number was still KU528AA but wasn’t available yet.
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May 27th, 2008
If you’ve visited any tech blogs today you’ve no doubt seen all the info there is to been seen on the reference design, so I’ll spare you all that.
However Laptop Magazine does have an initial hands-on review of the New Open Book which contains a quote of interest to most Mini-Note users:
We were hoping to see the much-anticipated Isaiah chip, in the hopes that it would add battery life or performance for a price that would sway potential Intel Atom OEM partnerships, but VIA actually has no plans to include the Isaiah processor in mini notebooks anytime soon. Company spokesperson Richard Brown says VIA is not concentrating Isaiah on mini notebooks, but rather, that the chip is intended for higher-priced 12- to 14-inch systems. Brown also insists that the C7-M can still beat out Intel’s Atom processor in terms of voltage, battery life, and performance, so long as it’s paired with the right graphics chipset
(Emphasis mine)
According to that I doubt the HP’s Mini-Note will be seeing Isaiah any time soon, which is really unfortunate. I wish they explained more why they’re focusing on the bigger systems. It’s probably either it’s price is too high or it consumes too much power for the little batteries in the current wave of sub-notebooks.
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