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.

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

As we start to see new models of netbooks coming out we have come to realize that a more general resource is required. It’s starting to look like netbooks will bea big as notebooks and just a varied it is because of this that we have created a set of forums for the discussion of netbooks so that members of the community can help each other out with what is very similar hardware.

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