Ultimate Pwnage UMPC: eeePC 901 vs HP Mini note 2133

I was interested in testing out an UMPC (Ultramobile PC) like the Asus eeePC. The eeePC might not be a high performer but compared to others, it's really cheap and really portable. Since it has an Atheros chipset, it opens up possibilities to use it as a portable wireless auditing device. For example, here is a section in the Pauldotcom Weekly shownotes on how to use Karmetasploit to own an iPhone. Since battery life is very important to me, I decided to wait for the Intel Atom edition (the 901). But it's not yet available in Belgium.

But then I saw a tweet from HD Moore linking to his Infiltrator 1200.

The Infiltrator is based on the HP 2133 Mini-Note ultra-portable laptop. The 2133 hardware platform has been modified to use an Atheros-based (AR5007) wireless card and been upgraded to 2Gb of RAM. This system boots a customized version of Kubuntu from an internal 120Gb HDD and supports encryption offload through the Padlock feature of the Via C7-M processor. The operating system has been modified to use the Wireless-Testing Linux kernel, pre-patched with everything needed to use the Aircrack-NG toolkit. All standard ACPI features are supported, including suspend-to-disk, suspend-to-ram, screen brightness, and volume control keys.

He apparently sells this laptop for 999$ and the HP2133 provides best of both worlds. Mobility + power at a reasonable price. I was not entirely convinced since my budget is somewhat limited at the moment.
Last I week, I saw another review of the HP2133 Mini Note versus the Asus eeePC 701 by Stepto.

So I decided to give it a spin. I've been using the HP Mininote 2133 for a week now and can say hands down it beats the EeePC 701 and even the 901 series in just about every way. While there are some compromises to the design, I think I've finally gotten the minipc form factor that I will use to judge all further iterations. It's glossy bright screen is capable of displaying HD video in a bright and clear way, its full sized keyboard means not having to compromise being able to write or edit documents on the go (I've been writing almost all my blog entries and twitters and emails on it now for a week). While the processor is woefully underpowered, it's overall Vista specifications aren't bad at all. I thought the Eeepc build quality was fine for the price (I got a nice black one and while made of plastic, it was very solid and looked nice.), but the 2133 is just outstanding. A brushed chrome finish, solid hinges, and they didn't skimp on the style of the design such that in just sitting here in a sushi place in Vegas writing this review I've gotten at least three comments on how nice my laptop is. I even gave the manager on duty a brief tour of it running Vista.

Read the rest of his review. Well after having seen these two 'recommendations', I'm definitely interested in the HP. Problem is that I don't seem to find this one in Belgium either.

If I seem to find one, I might post some tutorials.

Update: JKK mentions that the battery life of the HP is less compared to the eeePC. Anything above 4 hours is okay with me. He has a very interesting site with some reviews of UMPCs.