![]() I'll also be making a bootable USB thumb drive later this week, and checking to see if the 2133 will boot from it as well. ![]() You press F9 while booting to get the boot device menu, but be careful, the USB port only shows up in the list if something is connected to it, so don't get confused (like I did) if you try it the first time just to see what comes up in the list, and USB isn't there. The 2133 doesn't have a CD/DVD drive (duh, it's a netbook), so you have to use an external USB drive to load XP. ![]() I'm sure there are instructions on the HP web page, or perhaps in the online manuals, as to how to do that, but as far as I am concerned this computer will NEVER be capable of running Vista, so I didn't bother to do it. If you choose to install XP, and you think that you might some day want to go back to Vista, you have to make a CD or DVD copy of the Vista recovery partition first. HP has taken the "recovery partition" route for the Vista installation, so rather than including Vista recovery CD/DVD media, they have an image of the original Vista installation in a second partition on the hard drive for the XP Professional "downgrade", they include CDs. I am not about to waste another bunch of days trying to figure that out, so at that point I decided to simply dump Vista and go with the "downgrade" to XP Professional. I was determined to stick with it, and give it a fair chance, but when I tried to set up the wireless networking, it couldn't connect to my Linksys router - the same symptom that I have had with my Lifebook S6510 when it was running Vista. ![]() It took many minutes to boot up, and it was ridiculously sluggish when it was finally "ready to use". It was literally staggering under the load of Vista. When I first started and configured the 2133, with it running the preloaded Vista Business, I was afraid that I had made a bad decision. I did not try to buy it with Linux (SuSE) preloaded, I will be trying various Linux distributions on my own next week. Mine came with Windows Vista Business preloaded, and the CDs for a "downgrade" to XP Professional. I will write again in the near future about adventures with Linux on it. I am going to discuss only Windows in this post, as that is what I ordered on it. Whew! That's a lot of computer for 500 francs! Please be aware that a lot of that hardware is optional or upgraded in speed or capacity, so if you consider buying one, check the specifications carefully. External connections include two USB 2.0 ports, RJ-45 ethernet, VGA monitor (this is really good for those who might want/need to connect to a beamer), mic in and headphone out, Express Card/54 slot, and an SD flash card slot. It has an ADI HD audio codec and stereo speakers, and an integrated VGA webcam. It has a Broadcom Gigabit (!) wired network adapter, a Broadcom B/G Wireless network adapter, and an HP Bluetooth adapter. It is the first of the netbooks I have seen whose keyboard doesn't remind me of the IBM PC Jr. Perhaps the single nicest thing about it, considering that it is in the "netbook" category, is the keyboard - according to HP it is 92% the size of a "normal" keyboard, and it is quite nice to use. It has an 8.9" display with 1280x768 resolution, and a VIA Chrome 9 display adapter. The 2133 has a VIA C-7M ULV processor, mine has the 1.6GHz version it has 2 GB of RAM, and a 120 GB 5400 rpm SATA disk drive. First, here's the highlights of the hardware configuration that I got. ![]()
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