HP 2133 Mini review

HP 2133 Mini: the netbook pioneer with near-perfect carry and nothing else

The HP 2133 Mini is the pioneering netbook era's HP entry — a 2 GB carry-first machine from the segment that invented cheap portability. Its record is the netbook pattern exactly: mobility 99 and portability 94.3, both near the top of the ultrabook class, around a compute sheet at the absolute floor.

Where it holds up

Mobility is the headline strength: a reading of 99 against an ultrabook-class median of 64, a 54.7 percent gap in the category's top quarter — one point shy of the perfect marks carried by the slate records in this batch, and the best mobility figure of any keyboard-form HP here. Portability reads 94.3, top band, bettered in this batch only by the five perfect-100 records. The 2133 was built when the netbook premise was maximum hours per dollar per pound, and on the pounds axis the record still reads like a champion.

Where it falls short

Graphics is the flagged weakness at zero — a coverage gap rather than a measured zero. Overall performance reads 0.17 with the office index at 0.5, both at the measurement floor; every task axis sits on the low-band floor constants (gaming 19, modeling 12, engineering CAD 19, photo work 13), and the composite score of 3 against an ultrabook-class median of 49 is the floor verdict. The 2 GB memory row completes the period picture: this silicon was modest in its day and is archaeology now.

Practically: no workload claim is supportable — the machine is its form factor and its history.

Price and depreciation

No listing price is recorded for this configuration and no depreciation curve is modeled — there is no resale math to quote and no dollar projection to weigh.

Alternatives to consider

The HP 2140 Mini in this batch is the successor with an identical data sheet — the collector's choice between them is serial preference. For the same netbook premise with a modern engine, the Venue 11 Pro record here carries the perfect 100/100 pair on the same shelf; for an actually usable tiny machine, the E7250 (mobility 97, office 20.6) is the rational endpoint of the bloodline.

Bottom line

Fairly priced for the class, the HP 2133 Mini is the netbook premise in its purest form: near-perfect carry numbers wrapped around floor-level compute and 2 GB of memory — a museum piece that still out-carries most of the modern fleet.