HP offers Linux on low-end mini-notes

HP has started shipping a $500 mini-notebook pre-installed with SUSE Linux. Boasting perhaps the largest keyboard in its class, the HP 2133 Mini-Note has an 8.9-inch WXGA display, 4GB of solid-state storage, 512MB of RAM, and a 1GHz Via C7 processor, with ExpressCard and SD-card expansion.

HP’s Mini-Note boasts a “92 percent full-size” keyboard, the vendor says, along with unusually large stereo speakers flanking the mid-sized (for a netbook) 8.9-inch LCD display. The least expensive Mini-Note model comes with a 400MHz front-side bus (FSB). The company also offers SUSE Linux on a slightly more expensive ($550) model with an 800MHz FSB, along with a 1.2GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, and a 120GB 5400 RPM SATA disk drive.

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