HP Mini 1000: The Windows XP Netbook 16 Years Later
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Date: 2025-02-15
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tekwerk
I feel like I remember this thing, or maybe a subsequent model. My high school was trying out the everyone gets a pc thing and for the first couple of years it was one of these. I remember theirs had, I think they were Vista machines originally and they were upgraded with educational licenses to 7 Other than the fact that 7 on maybe a gig or two of RAM was awful, I think just having them be associated with school soured my memories of them. The year after I got one of these, everyone else got Thinkpad X230s with sandy bridge i5s, and I was begging the school's tech department to upgrade me, and a lot of people wanted to trade because these were more sleek, but I was stuck with something like this. I wanna say it was a mini 210 after doing some googling, but I definitely remember that wavy style on the top, so I couldn't say
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I feel like I remember this thing, or maybe a subsequent model. My high school was trying out the everyone gets a pc thing and for the first couple of years it was one of these. I remember theirs had, I think they were Vista machines originally and they were upgraded with educational licenses to 7 Other than the fact that 7 on maybe a gig or two of RAM was awful, I think just having them be associated with school soured my memories of them. The year after I got one of these, everyone else got Thinkpad X230s with sandy bridge i5s, and I was begging the school's tech department to upgrade me, and a lot of people wanted to trade because these were more sleek, but I was stuck with something like this. I wanna say it was a mini 210 after doing some googling, but I definitely remember that wavy style on the top, so I couldn't say
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lazygamereviews
In 2009, or possibly it was in 2008, I bought an Asus 1000H, with XP preinstalled; that thing could run, or rather walk World of Warcraft for a while, when I had a multibox setup, and I would move one character to a desired spot, have then move my main character in on a bigger Pentium 4 machine, and get healing from my netbook.
I still have that Asus 1000H set up, but now it just runs Puppy Linux and is used for playing audiobooks and for checking weather radar, when I am slowly bothering to rise from my tomb.
I somewhat expect the form factor to return some day, as it, to me seems very convenient.
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In 2009, or possibly it was in 2008, I bought an Asus 1000H, with XP preinstalled; that thing could run, or rather walk World of Warcraft for a while, when I had a multibox setup, and I would move one character to a desired spot, have then move my main character in on a bigger Pentium 4 machine, and get healing from my netbook.
I still have that Asus 1000H set up, but now it just runs Puppy Linux and is used for playing audiobooks and for checking weather radar, when I am slowly bothering to rise from my tomb.
I somewhat expect the form factor to return some day, as it, to me seems very convenient.
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Pozorrogo
I just installed Ubuntu on my Acer AspireOne notebook. I really enjoy the small form factor and how solid the netbook feels. I can see why they were so popular it really is convenient to carry around. I think even if I was in college today the Netbook would be great to have just to take notes or type out essays. They can play games like Plants Vs Zombies, Angry Birds, you can emulate lots of older games on it. It even has HDMI out and all the SD card readers youd ever need. Every single square inch of those netbooks were so delicately engineered to give you the maximum amount of plugin possible.
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I just installed Ubuntu on my Acer AspireOne notebook. I really enjoy the small form factor and how solid the netbook feels. I can see why they were so popular it really is convenient to carry around. I think even if I was in college today the Netbook would be great to have just to take notes or type out essays. They can play games like Plants Vs Zombies, Angry Birds, you can emulate lots of older games on it. It even has HDMI out and all the SD card readers youd ever need. Every single square inch of those netbooks were so delicately engineered to give you the maximum amount of plugin possible.
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cameronward9443
As someone who was in his mid to late 20s when these became a thing. absolutely no one I knew had one. except me. I got one for free when I opened up an investing account at at bank. I used it for like three minutes but it was pretty damn terrible. The keyboard was literally too small to type on it. I said the same thing back then that I say about chrome books nowadays. You're better off buying a used three year old laptop instead of wasting money on a chrome book. You'll be much happier for it.
I had the original Asus eeepc.
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As someone who was in his mid to late 20s when these became a thing. absolutely no one I knew had one. except me. I got one for free when I opened up an investing account at at bank. I used it for like three minutes but it was pretty damn terrible. The keyboard was literally too small to type on it. I said the same thing back then that I say about chrome books nowadays. You're better off buying a used three year old laptop instead of wasting money on a chrome book. You'll be much happier for it.
I had the original Asus eeepc.
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lazygamereviews
Are TRYING to make me feel old. 16 years ago was still 2009. My first notebook had an LCD screen with TFT active matrix. oooohhhhh translation, still crappy. Fresh rates were not even a thing. Pentium mobiles were coming into play, but I believe mine was a 486 66. and maybe 8 MEGS of ram. NotGB. Not TBMEGABYTES. Windows 3. 11 WFWG was soooo cool. No internal modem, but it did have pcmcia a lot to put one in. Built in Ethernet had barely become a thing. You were lucky to get 20-30 good minutes of pure battery life.
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Are TRYING to make me feel old. 16 years ago was still 2009. My first notebook had an LCD screen with TFT active matrix. oooohhhhh translation, still crappy. Fresh rates were not even a thing. Pentium mobiles were coming into play, but I believe mine was a 486 66. and maybe 8 MEGS of ram. NotGB. Not TBMEGABYTES. Windows 3. 11 WFWG was soooo cool. No internal modem, but it did have pcmcia a lot to put one in. Built in Ethernet had barely become a thing. You were lucky to get 20-30 good minutes of pure battery life.
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Gouxoxo
My first computer that was mine was an EeePC 701SD, the cheaper model that came with Xandros linux stuck in basic mode so you couldn't install anything.
That was the start of 10 year old me going down the rabbit hole of managing to install ubuntu and break it a couple times and being stubborn enough to fix it every time. So much of my PC and linux knowledge came from tinkering with that netbook, loved it so much shame it got stolen a while back. The memories this video brought back make me want to hunt one down again.
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My first computer that was mine was an EeePC 701SD, the cheaper model that came with Xandros linux stuck in basic mode so you couldn't install anything.
That was the start of 10 year old me going down the rabbit hole of managing to install ubuntu and break it a couple times and being stubborn enough to fix it every time. So much of my PC and linux knowledge came from tinkering with that netbook, loved it so much shame it got stolen a while back. The memories this video brought back make me want to hunt one down again.
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jimmybailey7198
My highschool provided laptop from 2009-2011/12 before they switched to mac for my senior year (refused to get one, i was paying the mandatory insurance, i flat out said im not taking this crap AND paying for insurance)
Literally what were they gonna do when damn near everything they did on them were web based or microsoft office based, aka can access with ANY device (at the time was a computer not a phone because of web internet limitations)
Memories playing COD 1 (2003, bunch of emulated stuff
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My highschool provided laptop from 2009-2011/12 before they switched to mac for my senior year (refused to get one, i was paying the mandatory insurance, i flat out said im not taking this crap AND paying for insurance)
Literally what were they gonna do when damn near everything they did on them were web based or microsoft office based, aka can access with ANY device (at the time was a computer not a phone because of web internet limitations)
Memories playing COD 1 (2003, bunch of emulated stuff
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playtech7165
I remember having an MSI Wind U100, one of the best along with the Asus EEE PC. I actually finished my graphic design degree with it! I had a desktop at home, but for quick fixes in class, that little netbook was perfect. Windows XPgotta love it. I also played Re-Volt, Quake 3 Arena, Age of Empires 2, browsed the web, used Winamp, Photoshop, Office It was an absolute beauty, so useful. Never had any graphical issues or crashes, it just worked flawlesslyunlike some other junk I've had throughout my life.
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I remember having an MSI Wind U100, one of the best along with the Asus EEE PC. I actually finished my graphic design degree with it! I had a desktop at home, but for quick fixes in class, that little netbook was perfect. Windows XPgotta love it. I also played Re-Volt, Quake 3 Arena, Age of Empires 2, browsed the web, used Winamp, Photoshop, Office It was an absolute beauty, so useful. Never had any graphical issues or crashes, it just worked flawlesslyunlike some other junk I've had throughout my life.
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lazygamereviews
Still got my Toshiba NB550D sitting. Somewhere. I've had it for 15 years. It still works, but why. I only use it when I desperately need another system for troubleshooting, which is highly infrequently now, especially today when I have 2 spare smartphones just laying around.
It was kinda crap when I bought it back in the day. So. Yeah. That's about it. It never got the use I wish I had out of it, because it was just so damn slow. I loved it so so much, but it's just sad. Unrealised potential.
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Still got my Toshiba NB550D sitting. Somewhere. I've had it for 15 years. It still works, but why. I only use it when I desperately need another system for troubleshooting, which is highly infrequently now, especially today when I have 2 spare smartphones just laying around.
It was kinda crap when I bought it back in the day. So. Yeah. That's about it. It never got the use I wish I had out of it, because it was just so damn slow. I loved it so so much, but it's just sad. Unrealised potential.
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GrandmaHasDied
This was the first brand new laptop I ever owned. I still have mine and it’s running just fine.
I swapped Windows for Ubuntu 10. 04 Netbook Remix back in high school and then used it as a Hackintosh with OS X 10. 5. 8 for 2 years in college before finally retiring it and my PowerBook G3 Pismo for a refurbished Dell Precision M4400.
Today its only task is to sync up with manky old MP3 players that don’t work past Windows XP. It ain’t much, but it’s honest work.
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This was the first brand new laptop I ever owned. I still have mine and it’s running just fine.
I swapped Windows for Ubuntu 10. 04 Netbook Remix back in high school and then used it as a Hackintosh with OS X 10. 5. 8 for 2 years in college before finally retiring it and my PowerBook G3 Pismo for a refurbished Dell Precision M4400.
Today its only task is to sync up with manky old MP3 players that don’t work past Windows XP. It ain’t much, but it’s honest work.
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Esqofosd
I've got a silver HP Mini 2140 that I bought to have as a cheap and light weight computer for mailing and such when travelling. It came with XP but I later installed some Ubuntu distro, maybe Xubuntu. In 2014 or so I bought some Toshiba with a 12 screen to fill the same function. I'm now in the process of replacing the Toshiba with a used Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen6 with some Ubuntu distro on it (fills pretty much the same function as a $300 Chromebook, but faster and at half the price.
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I've got a silver HP Mini 2140 that I bought to have as a cheap and light weight computer for mailing and such when travelling. It came with XP but I later installed some Ubuntu distro, maybe Xubuntu. In 2014 or so I bought some Toshiba with a 12 screen to fill the same function. I'm now in the process of replacing the Toshiba with a used Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen6 with some Ubuntu distro on it (fills pretty much the same function as a $300 Chromebook, but faster and at half the price.
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shivasoundie
Absolute best use I have found for these now (having saved so many from ewaste, is to run dedicated Rebirth RB-338. virtual roland tb303 tr808, tr909 etc. It was released for free by developers eventually, but that was windows98 days. You need to do some hackery with. hlp or help system to get it to run on newer windows. But so worth it. rebirth is strictly 800x600 so even wierd netbook rscreen resolution is fine Attach to your choice of 2ch usb audio/midi easily too.
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Absolute best use I have found for these now (having saved so many from ewaste, is to run dedicated Rebirth RB-338. virtual roland tb303 tr808, tr909 etc. It was released for free by developers eventually, but that was windows98 days. You need to do some hackery with. hlp or help system to get it to run on newer windows. But so worth it. rebirth is strictly 800x600 so even wierd netbook rscreen resolution is fine Attach to your choice of 2ch usb audio/midi easily too.
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YodaPagoda
I was obsessed with getting a Toshiba Libretto, and eventually I was able to get an alternative, the Fujitsu Lifebook. Keep in mind, I got it a couple years before the netbooks started appearing, and people would marvel at its size when I was at a Starbucks. It had WiFi, a touchscreen, and the keyboard was solid, it had the TouchPoint like the ThinkPad, of which I stole one of its red nubbin pointers to put on the LifeBook.
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I was obsessed with getting a Toshiba Libretto, and eventually I was able to get an alternative, the Fujitsu Lifebook. Keep in mind, I got it a couple years before the netbooks started appearing, and people would marvel at its size when I was at a Starbucks. It had WiFi, a touchscreen, and the keyboard was solid, it had the TouchPoint like the ThinkPad, of which I stole one of its red nubbin pointers to put on the LifeBook.
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imlasse6731
I actually got the Vivienne Tam Edition of this netbook from someone around a year ago. I upgraded it to 2GB RAM and an M. 2 SSD using an adapter. Currently, it's running a dual boot of Windows 8. 1 (stripped down) and Debian (with the Openbox window manager. It feels quite nice, but it's a shame that the Intel Atom is so slow. Though surprisingly, it handles n64 emulation very good with Project 64 1. 6 on Windows.
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I actually got the Vivienne Tam Edition of this netbook from someone around a year ago. I upgraded it to 2GB RAM and an M. 2 SSD using an adapter. Currently, it's running a dual boot of Windows 8. 1 (stripped down) and Debian (with the Openbox window manager. It feels quite nice, but it's a shame that the Intel Atom is so slow. Though surprisingly, it handles n64 emulation very good with Project 64 1. 6 on Windows.
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DKJones96
I definitely had one of these. It was a Dell model that I upgraded with a 2. 5 64GB SSD and replaced the LCD with an 'HD' model that had 1366x768 resolution. It fixed a lot of the issues with programs and dialog boxes not displaying right on 576 height but made everything tiny as heck. Made me feel like I needed reading glasses in my early 20s. Didn't stop me from spending hours with it and an Arduino though.
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I definitely had one of these. It was a Dell model that I upgraded with a 2. 5 64GB SSD and replaced the LCD with an 'HD' model that had 1366x768 resolution. It fixed a lot of the issues with programs and dialog boxes not displaying right on 576 height but made everything tiny as heck. Made me feel like I needed reading glasses in my early 20s. Didn't stop me from spending hours with it and an Arduino though.
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Redmage913
My Eee PC 1005p with the N450 is still working just fine, other than the touchpad connector clip on the board breaking. I always use it with a trackball mouse anyways, and it’s a great 90s light gaming XP platform. My extended battery still works for up to 8-9 hours! I gained a good hour plus by switching to SSD, though it does make the netbook rear-heavy. It prefers an HDD to have proper weighting!
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My Eee PC 1005p with the N450 is still working just fine, other than the touchpad connector clip on the board breaking. I always use it with a trackball mouse anyways, and it’s a great 90s light gaming XP platform. My extended battery still works for up to 8-9 hours! I gained a good hour plus by switching to SSD, though it does make the netbook rear-heavy. It prefers an HDD to have proper weighting!
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jomeyqmalone
When I bought the original Asus Eee PC, Windows FLP (Fundamentals for Legacy PCs) was a lifesaver. That first model had extremely limited resources, so it was much better to use that cut down version of what was essentially XP for embedded systems, and add on drivers and libraries as necessary. The ISO is on Archive, and i highly recommended it for anyone messing with those laptops today
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When I bought the original Asus Eee PC, Windows FLP (Fundamentals for Legacy PCs) was a lifesaver. That first model had extremely limited resources, so it was much better to use that cut down version of what was essentially XP for embedded systems, and add on drivers and libraries as necessary. The ISO is on Archive, and i highly recommended it for anyone messing with those laptops today
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lazygamereviews
How is it even possible for YT to make even 360 videos unplayable I mean, I think I had a Ericson phone around 2006 that did that. Some of the games both looked pretty nice and seemed to have some FPS's too. I'm pretty shore I have seen something like that too with a machine that ran Quake with hundreds of FPS in 1080p but watching a video on this platform in 480. Nope.
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How is it even possible for YT to make even 360 videos unplayable I mean, I think I had a Ericson phone around 2006 that did that. Some of the games both looked pretty nice and seemed to have some FPS's too. I'm pretty shore I have seen something like that too with a machine that ran Quake with hundreds of FPS in 1080p but watching a video on this platform in 480. Nope.
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zeugundso
While I also had a proper desktop PC at the time when looking back nearly all productive parts of my study work, CAD, programming as well as graphics work was acutally done on a very similiar little netbook (Samsung NC10. While not powerful it was honestly always good enough and I try to recreate some of the limiting conditions to this day when needing to stay more focused.
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While I also had a proper desktop PC at the time when looking back nearly all productive parts of my study work, CAD, programming as well as graphics work was acutally done on a very similiar little netbook (Samsung NC10. While not powerful it was honestly always good enough and I try to recreate some of the limiting conditions to this day when needing to stay more focused.
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lazygamereviews
I only got to see these netbooks around 2008 in ISP's cellphone/netbook showrooms when they fully introduced the contemporary networking to my country. They were quirky, tiny and I generally didn't understand how they even connected to the web and I was looking at them like they were the future. Of course, in no time, iPhone and Android devices came and that's that.
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I only got to see these netbooks around 2008 in ISP's cellphone/netbook showrooms when they fully introduced the contemporary networking to my country. They were quirky, tiny and I generally didn't understand how they even connected to the web and I was looking at them like they were the future. Of course, in no time, iPhone and Android devices came and that's that.
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