HP are one of the first major manufacturers to jump on the education notebook bandwagon, with today's Mini-Note 2133 announcement. Students are the new black, which is great news for those in education, and makes those of us who were educated in the times of £1500 laptops slightly bitter.
The HP Mini-Note 2133 has a starting price of under £300. It's got an 8.9-inch screen, weighs about 1.3 kgs, WiFi, Bluetooth, Guard Drive, which will shut down the hard drive if it's dropped and changeable batteries for lightness or battery life.
My favourite bit of the US press release is that the Mini-Note allows you to "communicate via email, instant messaging or even blogging". That'd be the same blogging that requires no more than Firefox or IE, presumably?
Anyway, it's another indication that the eeePC has heralded somewhat of a UMPC revolution, and that ultimately, students will now have more money for things like alco-pops. Yay!
It'll be available in May, when you'll have a choice between Windows Vista or Linux.
http://h40059.www4.hp.com/hp2133/?jumpid=ex_r135_uk_en_public_psg/mu/-/hp2133
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This looks awedsome. I cn't wait to see a review
Comparing it to the Eee (something the article doesn't do), the HP is 30% heavier, has a better, bigger keyboard, and has a hard drive. The hard drive has enough capacity to hold your entire MP3 collection, but it also means the laptop is more fragile and consumes more power (meaning shorter battery life) than it would otherwise. (The Eee has longer battery life, at least in the versions with 7-inch displays. But the apples-to-apples comparison would be to the ones with 9-inch displays, and I haven't seen battery life figures for those yet.)
@ Scarlett,
You are slightly bitter about $1500 laptops? I remember RAM going for $40 per *megabyte*. The universe wasn't created in the 90's. Prices fall, capabilities increase. Nowadays nobody even mentions it.