I loved my 2133, it was the first time a 'laptop' was affordable for me. I used to take it away on work trips to watch DVD rips and play some basic games and browse the web. I increased the RAM from 1GB to 2GB and the HDD I swapped for a SSD and updated to Windows 7. Unfortunately that single core VIA C7 processor was so slow that I did not get much time out of it, you could watch a movie sure, but you couldnt use the web at the same time. Be careful with the HDD sata / power cable, they are fragile, I had to buy a replacement off ebay, thankfully they are cheap :P
I remember wanting this but I had already purchased an EEE and Dell Mini 9 and couldn’t justify buying one. Always loved how large the keys were and how the keyboard goes edge to edge.
I had not one, not two, but four of these tiny laptops! Don't ask me why.. They had a big problem, after a few years of use they just dies.. not sure why, but they ran really hot and that's probably the reason.
The via C7 was never designed to run on something as small as a netbook, it was an industrial CPU. Add to that a deficient cooling system and your assumptions are right: The poor thing cooked itself and the video chip (which was separate from the CPU, i think) would desolder.
