more mininotebooks

[James Knott]

D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> The Asus EEE or perhaps the XO have spawned a new wave of small
> notebooks.
> 
> I got an ad from HP promoting their HP 2133 Mini-Note PC units.  The
> idiots sent me a US link, even though they know I'm in Canada.
> There are more models in the US.
> 
> Canadian models are listed in increasing price whereas the US ones are
> listed in the opposite order.  I wonder if that signifies a difference
> in psychology.
> 
> US:
> http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF25b/321957-321957-64295-321838-306995-3687084.html
> 
> Canada:
> http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/ca/en/sm/WF25b/12139188-12139280-12139280-12139280-12434628-82025076.html
> 
> On paper, this looks to have a lot of resolution (WXGA) for an 8.9"
> display.  Via C7 CPU isn't strong, but is probably appropriate.
> 

I see the same price both sides of the border.  Also, the low end Vista 
system is $50 more than the Linux system on the same hardware.  And 
there's no comparable Vista model to the bottom end Linux model.  I 
guess this is a good indication of relative hardware requirements.  ;-)


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