If 2007 was the year that Asus has chosen to introduce the small and affordable sub-notebook, then 2008 is the year where the concept really began to take off. Asus, predictably, has the lead once more with its updated Eee PC 900 right to a large number of questions raised by the original. Meanwhile, Intel has enthusiastically adopted the idea by launching its platform Centrino Atom for small, low-power, affordable and notepads MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices). There are few machines to use Atom discussed, including the impressive research MSI Wind, but it seems it could be some time before we see Atom machines hitting the retail sector.As such, it was necessary for companies to find alternatives while Intel accelerates production. Asus solution so far has been a 900Hz Intel Celeron CPU, but other companies have had to resort to lesser-known options, the VIA C7-M 1.2GHz CPU be a popular alternative. He jumped in a number of Eee PC-alikes, but with mixed success, it was somehow a surprise to see him feed HP first foray into the sub-notebook market, somewhat awkwardly named HP 2133-Note Mini-PC.
Although it lacks a catchy name on the toy-like Eee PC-Mini Note PC is a surprisingly elegant piece of design. Heavyweight in a portable 1.27 kg but the metal lid and brushed complete below internal money and beautiful glossy black bezel, while its curves to form a pleasantly tactile which immediately appealed. If the EEA PC borrows the MacBook white emblematic of the end, the Mini Note PC feels much more like a product manufactured by the house that Steve Jobs built.
This comparison, however, is not much HP justice because he was too design and production of notebook attractive for some time now and his experience is borne out in the Mini-Note. Everything about the machine feels extremely accomplished, with a compact, but feel light and solidity that belies both its price and size. Try to bend the screen and you will find it difficult to produce a lot of movement at all. Apply some pressure outside of the lid and you'll be hard pushed to transmit it to the LCD itself.
Nowhere is this quality more apparent, however, that within the borders keyboard. Contrary to the EEA PC that can be described as "good for the size, the keyboard on the mini-Note PC would not be less acceptable on a machine at a cost much more than £ 350 needed to buy publishing Linux we are discussing today. indeed, in terms of layout and printing, it apes another product Asus, 11.1in U2E-1P057E ultra-portable, very comfortably. It has a large and friendly touch Back and lacks obvious quirks and unlike the EEA PC keys are smaller than on any ordinary notebook. Vitale, keys, too, have a net level of travel and response by typing makes it fast and easy.
