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)