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HP Mini 1000: The Windows XP Netbook 16 Years Later (youtu.be)

submitted 6 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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LGR retrospective on the HP Mini 1000, one of the more popular PCs from the short-lived era of the netbook! If you could even call it an era. In hindsight, it was all a bit silly, even though the 45nm processors making it possible were quite exciting at that point in time. So join me in reviewing the Mini 1000 that I had back in 2009 (or close to it) and putting it through its paces 16 years later!

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[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 7 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Man, I had one of those. And I hated every minute with it.

It was, by far, the slowest "modern" computer I ever used, and I legit do not miss the whole netbook thing with slow-ass atom CPUs and the world's slowest hard drives.

(They probably would have been far less awful with a more modern SSD option, but well, that wasn't a thing soooo....)

[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Oh yeah? When I were a lad we didn't have netbooks with them fancy Atom chips with their la-de-da x86 ISAs.

We made do with the psion netbook.

(I didn't have one)

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I still have one!

It's broken because it was designed by crazy people.

(The battery is required, the battery failed in such a way that it leaked and ate everything on the battery charger/temperature board, so uh, I have to find a replacement controller board and then put a new battery on it and I have to admit I just haven't been motivated enough to try to find a non-destroyed board from a tiny production run that's like 30 years old now.)

[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

I still have one, too! Found for $3 at a flea market because the HDD is going bad... and I can't find a ZIF adapter that recognizes anything I plug into it. HP = custom pinout on the ZIF ribbon?

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