Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

1. The keyboard has no distance between pinky keys like A or P and control keys. I takes a lot of effort to retrain if you are a touch typest. 2. It runs very hot...you are told not to use this in bed or on your lap. 3. It is vastly underpowered. It cannot play mpg videos from a usb stick or from an external DVD. 4. What takes 2-4% of the CPU on a modern Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.4 Ghz, will take 70-100% on this machine. 5. The fully charged, heavy, 6-cell battery reads 2 hours and 40 minutes...not four hours as claimed. This is an expensive web browser that cannot play YouTube without hickups. Do not even think about Powerpoint Animations for Video!!! I am returning mine! Addendum May 9 If you turn off everything, including indexing and Aero, the unit will play video using 70-100% of CPU. Turn off the sidebar as well for this purpose. I had read that installing XP fixes performance issues. However, getting the downgrade is not simple and not automatically provided by HP (if I am wrong here please add a comment to the review). I have no intention of paying over $100 for XP a new license to install. Addendum May 21 I have tried the Eee PC 900. This is a much more chinsy and filmsily constructed machine. It does not run as hot. The keyboard is far worse than the HP 2133. However, it runs 2.5 times faster with XP and the standard configuration than the HP 2133. Videos under any number of players never break up or take more than 20-30% of the CPU...whereas on the VIA chipset it always pegged at 100%.