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HP Mini 1000: The Windows XP Netbook 16 Years Later (youtu.be)

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LGR retrospective on the HP Mini 1000, one of the more popular PCs from the short-lived era of the netbook! If you could even call it an era. In hindsight, it was all a bit silly, even though the 45nm processors making it possible were quite exciting at that point in time. So join me in reviewing the Mini 1000 that I had back in 2009 (or close to it) and putting it through its paces 16 years later!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh yeah? When I were a lad we didn't have netbooks with them fancy Atom chips with their la-de-da x86 ISAs.

We made do with the psion netbook.

(I didn't have one)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I still have one!

It's broken because it was designed by crazy people.

(The battery is required, the battery failed in such a way that it leaked and ate everything on the battery charger/temperature board, so uh, I have to find a replacement controller board and then put a new battery on it and I have to admit I just haven't been motivated enough to try to find a non-destroyed board from a tiny production run that's like 30 years old now.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I still have one, too! Found for $3 at a flea market because the HDD is going bad... and I can't find a ZIF adapter that recognizes anything I plug into it. HP = custom pinout on the ZIF ribbon?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hah! I didn't expect anyone to know the psion one!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I really, really wanted one as a kid, but they were quite expensive. Like, actual-real-computer expensive, if I recall correctly.

The good news is the tech pretty much ended up in the S60 Nokia phones, of which I had uh, a lot. And some of them even had normal keypads, and not one from whatever meth-induced fever dream some guy in Finland had.