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;

Hp2133Guide is reporting that HP has got some new configurations for the Mininote and xp as of tonight, from the article;

HP’s got some new 2133 configs out as of tonight, including options for “downgrading” to Windows XP on models over $700 — more or less as expected. They’re up to eight base configs ranging from $500 to $820, so if you’ve been thinking of picking one up you’ve certainly got plenty of options to choose from.

This is great news as we all know that the mini-note runs far better under windows XP than it does under Vista

The Forums will be updated to include these models later today.

lightweight has reported that The XP edition of the MiniNote will come with the media to install XP and the drivers but not with XP actually installed on it I think this is good news, as it ensures that you can do a fresh install if you need to. Installing windows is very easy and you get as many attempts at it as you want, so if you are unhappy just try installing again it will teach you a little more about computers if nothing else. XP runs very well on the mini note so this is something to look forward to.