The HP Mini 1000 was set to get it’s 3G option in December but it would seem that HP surprised us by releasing it early. dplxy of Pocketables forum managed to get 3G up and running by contacting customer support from both HP and AT&T. All that needs to be be done is to get the hp driver from here unzip it with 7zip or winzip, double click swisetup to install, insert the sim and away you go.

We all know that being able to replace the HDD/SDD drive in the mini-note is a big plus and today I have lots of news about that. First of all Chris posted a blog entry (with pictures) on how you replace the mini notes hard drive. This has been added to the wiki;

Earlier in the week Tigger1 posted about replacing the HDD with a 10,000 RPM Drive and I’m pleased to say that he has reported a big improvement in the overall speed of the mininote;

About the same time Biohazard reported that A new Compact Flash drive that is compatible with the SATA interface (used in the mininote) is coming out. The key thing with this is as many forum members pointed out, it’s small and makes more space in the HP2133. Space that could be used for hacks.

Pictures of the minnotes insides have been posted on the forums thanks to following members, parishm and barcher; who were brave enough to open their mininotes;

Pictures