The HP 2133s are landing

Good news everyone! No, really. It appears that the reports of HP 2133 delays were greatly exaggerated. At least a few folks have already received their computers. Several jkOnTheRun readers report getting their deliveries this morning. Not much to report so far. Apparently there’s not much in the box. Just a computer, battery, adapter, and a few sheets of paper with instructions. No quick restore CD? Hmph.

Of course, OpenSuse is available for free on the web, but I’m curious to see:

If HP includes any special software or tweaks to the Linux operating system
If HP makes the OS available as a download from its support site

Still, I can’t wait to get my box and whatever comes inside.

Update: I just checked the support page for the HP 2133, and while there’s plenty of software including drivers, multimedia software, and BIOS configuration tools for Mini-Note computers running Windows Vista Business and Home Basic, there’s no support listed for OpenSuse or Windows XP. It’s not clear at this point whether you’ll have driver support if you install Windows XP from your own disc, but it’s possible that some of the Vista drivers will work. I’ll keep you posted if and when I get my hands on a Mini-Note and create a hard drive partition for installing XP.

[Thanks Mike!]

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Posted on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008, 9:01 pm by Brad Linder

http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com Mike Cane

hp to offer Mini Note skin bling in Singapore market.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6bVu57jNFj0
angryearthling

> no quick restore cd?

hp-compaq have been doing this for about 6 months now at least here in ireland. means that of every new batch of systems i have to take one aside and burn off the recovery cds from the onboard software (hope the 2133 has some). this is a sucky system as it only works once when writing windows os discs and then refuses to work again.

but hey i’m sure they saved a few pennies!
http://liliputing.com Brad Linder

I just hope there’s an option to burn recovery discs from the OpenSUSE Linux operating system. Because right now you can’t download it from the website. *grumble*
angryearthling

perhaps and it’ll need to be confirmed that a generic download from

http://www.opensuse.org/

will supply almost everything that you need. the asus seems generic enough that it may work out of the box. you will i suspect lose the drivers and software for the multi touch touchpad but that may be all that you need.

but really not to ship a recovery cd. i’ve even convinced my boss that the extra work of my needing to make backups of every variant of hp-compaq adds hours of extra configuration time to our customers systems. we could tell a customer who returns a damaged system that cannot be recovered that it’s their fault that they didn’t burn the discs but that wouldn’t go down well.

the last time i saw such crappy cost cutting was when ast cut 6 inches of the length of the keyboard cable to save money. i know our customer broke a lot of motherboard tugging for extra slack on the cable and ast went out of business about 2 years later.
http://liliputing.com Brad Linder

Yeah, I suppose you’re right. I’d just really like to be able to set up a dual boot system with Windows XP and OpenSUSE. And right now I’m not 100% certain the Vista drivers will work for XP, but there’s no really good (easy) way to install XP without overwriting Linux and reinstalling OpenSUSE… so it’d be nice to know that I’d have driver support for at least one operating system.

Maybe I’ll try to hold off on installing XP until HP posts drivers on their site.
http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com Mike Cane

>>>Maybe I’ll try to hold off on installing XP until HP posts drivers on their site.

*cue cry of anguish!*
http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com Mike Cane

>>>Maybe I'll try to hold off on installing XP until HP posts drivers on their site.

*cue cry of anguish!*
http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com Mike Cane

>>>Maybe I'll try to hold off on installing XP until HP posts drivers on their site.

*cue cry of anguish!*

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