Comments on: Upping the RAM on the Mini-Note; Still Not Giving Up on Vista

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 02:54:57 +0000

I ‘downgraded’ to XP a few days after I got my mininote. Vista made the machine unusable. (factory install was 2 gb ram)

By: radical r

radical r — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:34:36 +0000

You should try windows 7 on it. its very light compared to vista, and it has a lot of the functionality vista has and more.

By: little old me

little old me — Tue, 11 May 2010 22:39:43 +0000

The reason it only read 1.74 bytes is that it is a 32 bytes op system that you have to get the full read of mem it must be the 64 bytes system!

By: kurt

kurt — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:29:01 +0000

I have this laptop somewhere…probably in the corner under some cob webs. But the problem os that it’s not booting. The blue power light comes on & the fan spins but that’s it.
Apparently after doing extensive reading it was found that these laptops have a manufacturers flaw which will render the HP 2133 useless. I had to return it to HP for repair but it had came down with same problem. Now the warranty is up & I want to know if anyone..anyone have any remedies (besides buying a different laptop) to revive the trash.

Please I don’t wanna waste anymore money on HP products

By: Pierpaolo

Pierpaolo — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:45:41 +0000

Hi! I have an hp 2133 with 512 Mb ram 1.6 ghz and my SO is Windows 7 home. I installed Windoews Office 2007 too and they work good. I admitt pc works hard and ram often is over 85%. I bought a 2gb ram hoping it works more lightly than now.
Does 2ghz works better than 1.6? Atom 1.6 can substitute via c7-m?

By: Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:17:56 +0000

I have 2133 uk spec with 1gb ram 1.2 processor running win 7 home. runs better than it ever did wiht xp. I chose this device purely on price as all i do with it is run office and web browsing with email thrown in. for what I want it for it is perfect. I don’t shut it down so start up from sleep is almost instant. and win 7 added 15 minutes to battery life I get about 2.20 hours. and my mobile broadband installed much easier than on xp or vista tat my other machines have got. I hardly ever get lock ups. and the keyboard is just the best of any of the other netbooks

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:26:43 +0000

I have a HP Mini Note, got the Asian Market version with 2GB Ram 1.2GHz factory installed running vista basic. It still takes me over 2 mins to boot up the system. Its very laggy and slow, the programs all freeze and stop responding very easily.

Is there anyway to change the processor to Atom?

By: daxelinxe

daxelinxe — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:12:28 +0000

I changed Suse Linux O.S.(preinstalled) for Ubuntu 9.04- it works well but never , after trying hard, succeeded with 9.10, llast release …! The gnome display is great
The graphic card and sound card is not working fine.Be carefull or be a pro…
Wifi works fine.
Disk is slow but might be upgraded as well.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:08:36 +0000

Hey,

I’m considering buying a hp mini 5101 2gb ram. I’m sick of windows and all of it’s errors, and too cheep to buy a mac; so I was wondering if I buy the netbook with windows (for school) can I still install umbuntu, or any other type of Linux software?

By: Mikes09123

Mikes09123 — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:55:03 +0000

I installed windows 7 on my mini note and it was running perfect sure the boot up screen was longer but still was not as long as a minute or minute 30 i started installing some heavy programs of which you would think would become sluggish and i must admit i have faced these problems but not as much as expected i installed adobe photoshop cs3 works fine boots quite fast i have also got cubase and many more other programs still have quite alot of memory left over but would still like to upgrade the ram just to have that extra speed which i can see making a difference will probably make a video of it