pkphilip

The Celeron 900 EEEPC 900 is still slow. The Atom ones will be out hopefully in June and July, it's worth the wait.

Also, HP is shipping the Mini-Note 2133 now. Spec and material is better than the EEE (metal vs. plastic).

http://www.notebooks.com/2008/04 ... pecs-photo-gallery/

Price is also very comparable.

Philip

pkphilip

The HP 2133 is using the VIA C7-M, it's not the fastest out there, but it has longer run time than the Celeron-M. Unfortunately, running Vista as default OS is probably the only thing that makes it a deal breaker.

The Atom is slower than the Celeron-M 900Mhz, as the synthetic benchmark is only single threaded. The Atom should excel when in multi-threaded enviroment (Vista). On the other hand, VIA's Isaiah CPU is already killing the Atom and Celeron-M. HP should probably be using it on the next Mini-Note.

If I am going to get one of these UMPC, I will pick the HP one.

Philip