Mini 2133

[Jackson]

Any way that I can extremely optimize Windows 7 Ultimate for this machine? Disabling services and visuals won't cut it much while I'm still on the Basic theme. Firefox 57 is also a drab. Direct3D games also slow down to a halt, even when I enable maximum performance for quality in the graphics drivers. Then again, it's a netbook that's not even from this decade.

 

[GiGaBiTe]

I assume you're talking about this:

https://www.cnet.com/products/hp-2133-mini-note-pc/specs/

It will never run Windows 7 adequately. It was designed to be a rot gut cheap low budget netbook for educational use back in that several year window where netbooks were being pushed hard as the next best thing since sliced bread.

The VIA C7-M CPU in it is basically zombified late 1990s tech from Centaurhauls. VIA took their design and made a few changes to ramp up the clock, but it was still a potato. To put how bad the C7-M is into perspective, a Pentium M with the same clock speed released two years prior is 133% faster.

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compar...ntel-Pentium-M-processor-160GHz/m55016vsm4076

The GPU is more or less in the same boat, it's a VIA Chrome9, which is basically an S3 Savage updated to support DX9.

The best OS for that machine is either Windows XP or a Linux distro with a light DE like XFCE. Browsing the internet will still be painful on content heavy sites due to the weak CPU.

 

[SkydivinGirl]

The HP Mini 2133 was an amazing netbook. I bought mine new and was very happy with the near full size notebook keyboard. However, Windows 7 will definitely be a bit of a strain on a machine with such low specs. I agree with GiGaBiTe that your best bet is either XP or a Linux distro. This reminds me that I need to take mine out and give it another go.

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