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!

  • vext01@lemmy.sdf.org
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    7 days ago

    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)

    • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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      7 days ago

      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.)