HP Debuts Super Small Sub-$500 Laptop

Posted by Steven_Rosenber on Apr 10, 2008 12:04 AM EDT
Switched; By Terrence O'Brien
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The market for cheap sub-notebooks is simply exploding. It all started with the OLPC XO, then Intel jumped in with the Classmate. Soon Asus revealed its critically acclaimed Eee PC, and these low-priced, low-powered (often Linux-running) machines truly started to take the world by storm. The latest entry into this field is the Hewlett Packard 2133 Mini-Note PC. The Mini-Note starts at $499, for the entry level model with 512 megabytes of RAM, 4-gigabytes of storage, a 1-gigahertz VIA processor, and Linux.

[Other reports say that the HP laptop will run SUSE -- sr]

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