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.

A video of the Boot time of the HP Mini 1000 and a short review has shown up on utube, thanks too myhpmini.com for alerting us to this. The operating system is Windows XP with objectdock;

Windows XP, boots boots and loads the startup programs in 1 minute and 10 seconds. That includes a program called object dock. We will soon see how Linux compares on the HP Mini 1000. Nice firefox wallpaper :). They also had a look at playing 720p video on the HP Mini 1000, playing a trailer;

He has been very busy making yet another great video showing world of warcraft running in the HP Mini 1000, seems very impressed with the performance of world of warcraft - wrath of king lich. enjoy;

Dissection

The battery being removed from the HP Mini 1000;

Neat little RAM bay, looks like the upgrade to 2Gb of RAM will be easy on the HP Mini 1000;

Keyboard Removed to expose the HDD of the HP Mini 1000;

Benchmarks

Running the PCmark PC performace analysis software gives the following results;

Crystal Disk Mark which measures sequential reads / writes and Random 4KB / 512KB reads / writes. Produced the following results;

FDBench which measures Read, Write, random read, random write and copy speeds, gave the following results;

HDTune gave the following results when measuring read speed of the HDD;

HDTech gave the following results on Sequential Read and Burst speed tests;

Seems like it might be worth investing in a faster HDD drive.

Read The CNET (taiwan) Article Which compares the HP Mini 1000 to the EEE PC S101 (i.e. the highest end EEE PC available)

CNET gets it’s hands on the HP Mini 1000 and gives a short review video;

The mini 1000 walks away with 4 out of 5 stars, with an overall rating of “Excellent”. Read the review here.

Comparing The HP Mini 1000 to the HP 2133 is not really a great idea as they are both aimed at different ends of the market, but I do think that it is fair to mentions some of the areas that the mini 1000 has improved in. One example is the linux distro that the HP Mini 1120NR comes, I think that it’s fair to say the HP seem to have learned their lesson as they have provided an online software upgrade path with this new version of linux, which was absent from the SLED 10 Linux that came with the HP 2133. They Have also spent alot of time customising the Interface on the HP Mini 1120NR, it seems that HP has done something the many large companies fail to do, listen to the customers.

On the hardware side of things, They Have gone with an Atom processor which allows them to use Intel’s 945 graphic chipset. Many have welcomed this change, one thing that alot of people seem upset about is the fact that they have decided against an aluminium case but with the promise of a new revision of the HP 2133 in 2009, this really isn’t that much of an issue. Here are some comparision pictures for you;

The HP Mini 1000 has been out for a little while now an there are already a few vieos out for it;

HP Mini 1000 MIE Linux walkthrough;

HP Mini 1000 Advert;

We Have also Added alot of features to this website, including RSS for the forums and a New Image gallery

 

Laptop Mag has a story and pictures of a new mininote with a 10 inch screen, their isd still no word on the internal specs. I really hope that they ship this with the Nano that we Have been hearing / reading so much about. It’s the same form factor but the screen takes up the entire bezel, I would guess that it’s the same resolution but that is just a guess.

HP has always been confident that the 2133 Mini-Note would sell quickly, to the point where the company planned to build some two million units this year, and it sounds like that bet’s paying off — China’s Apply Daily is citing sources at HP Taiwan quoting worldwide sales growing 50 percent monthly. That’s pretty good for one of the more expensive small laptops on the market — we’ll see if that rumored cheaper edition moves even more.

 

Unergadget.net is reporting that the Via is giving the Atom quite a beating with regard to processing power. watch the video;

read the full story here

by Donald Melanson, posted Aug 11th 2008 at 12:03PM

It looks like VIA has finally had enough of the schoolyard fights with Intel and tauntings with hair dyers, as it has just dropped word over the weekend that it’s quitting the motherboard chipset business in order to focus on processors and chipsets for motherboards that use its own Nano CPU. According to Custom PC, this is actually a move that VIA had seen coming all along, with vice president of corporate marketing saying that, “one of the main reasons we originally moved into the x86 processor business was because we believed that ultimately the third party chipset market would disappear.” Of course, that also means that VIA is putting most of its “chips” in one basket (yes, we said it) and, as Slashdot points out, it leaves other third-party chip manufacturers like SiS with some tough questions to ask themselves.