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Check out this earlier post, one that I made last night: HP as well. So they dont just make printers!  I joked about the reasons for why the folks at HP (and previous to that, Dell) were visiting my blog.  Maybe they're gonna launch a rival to the Eee I quipped.  Why did I come to that conclusion?  Simple, my blog rarely has any mention of anything "desktop" (or printer related!) but has a lot to do with the Eee or Nokia.

When I awoke this morning and checked Google News (in my best news announcer voice... More cheapskateians get their news from Google than from any other source*!) I was surprised to see a bundle of stories regarding HP's er, "Eee Killer", the Mini-Note.  I had no idea!  Really. I haven't been following any of the Eee's rivals that closely - other than the usual candidates (Classmate, OLPC, Elonex One etc.)  I've gotta whole bunch of news articles, press releases and blog posts to catch up with methinks!  It is kinda difficult now that I no longer have my Eee PC, so what d'ya say HP?  Fancy giving this blogger a unit to trial?  You know you'll get full warts and all from me but if the device is as good as what I've been reading so far today, then you have nothing to worry about!

Oh, and HP?  When I had my Eee PC and was using it in public I had a queue of people coming up to me and asking me about it.  All, and I mean ALL were impressed including one of the stewardesses, sorry, female flight attendants who already had a more fully featured, and expensive, Sony VAIO.  People of all ages, colours, geeks, non-geeks, they all wanted to know more.  I've never had so many complete strangers come up to me before in my life!  And you know what?  Most of them left me with the impression that they were gonna get themselves one ASAP (good luck, I told them!) and that was after me listing the negatives as well as the positives of the tiny wonder.  If the Mini-Note is really that much better I won't have much bad to say about it, will I?

For good measure I'll add that, not one person approached me regarding the Nokia N95 8GB I had.  I didn't even garner a sneaky glimpser!   And the Eee got way more attention than my sister's iPhone when we went brandishing that around town weeks before it was released in the UK.

Here's a round of the stories about the HP Mini-Note I've been reading today: IT Wire - 'Note to HP: The Mini-Note PC rocks!' / Reg Hardware - 'Asus avoids Atom to get next Eee PC out early?' / Reg Hardware - 'HP launches Linux-loaded Eee PC rival' / Mobile Computer - 'HP guns for the Eee PC with the ultra-stylish Mini-Note 2133' / AP - 'HP Unveils Small Laptop for Schoolkids' / InfoSync World - 'Hands-on with the HP 2133 Mini-Note PC' (as you can probably tell I'm really excited about the news and, maybe, when my insurance comes through I'll be going for the Mini-Note instead of a replacement Eee PC.

*I know it's an aggregator and not a source and yes, only Americans will get that reference but they do make up the majority of my readership!)