Comments on: HP Mini 1000 Upgrade Opportunities: Easy Access to RAM and SIM Slot

By: George

George — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:49:50 +0000

Got a HP-1012NR. Specs are: Atom-270, 1GB RAM, 16GB SSD. Bought it for $269+tax from Office Depot during Labor Day sale. It meets my expectation: light weight, reasonably fast,

1. Loaded with MS office, Thunderbird on Windows XP.

2. Made a system recovery disk and removed the hidden system restore partition to save space.

3. Install Ubuntun-9.04 onto a separate 16G SD card in SD slot with its own boot sector. Can an boot to Ubuntu by pressing F9. Wireless works automatically.

3. I choose HP netbook mainly for its keyboard, you can really type like normal keyboard. Only the button “1″ is little too small.

Anyway, it is a useful product for people on the move.

By: R. Kimmins

R. Kimmins — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:43:06 +0000

My HP Mini 110 netbook is only 1 month old and suddenly it will not boot. It gets hung up at the Hp screen where I have the options of entering F9 or F10 to get to Bios or other settings. When I enter F10 to try and check the hard drive, the computer can’t find the hard drive. I suspect the 160 Gb hard drive has failed after only 1 month. In addition, the 3 cell battery that came with the unit only last about 1 1/5 hours – no where near the 3 hours quoted. You will have to purchase a $100 HP 6 cell battery if you hope to get 5 hours of life out of your computer.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:27:18 +0000

THe HDD in the 1033CL is a 1.8″ Drive. It is very easy to gain access to it but the best I can find is a 160G Drive for $85. It sure would be nice if HP would have used 2.5″ Drives grrrrr

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:36:18 +0000

Does anyone know what if the drive in the 1033CL is a 2.5″ HDD? I want to change the 60G drive with a 500G Drive.

By: 1968

1968 — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:05:19 +0000

Great how-to video on upgrading the SSD to a regular 1.8″ with more than 2X read/write speeds compared to the original:

http://jkkmobile.blogspot.com/2009/01/runcore-18-inch-ssd-on-hp-mini-1000.html

By: lololololgeaser

lololololgeaser — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:26:38 +0000

how do i open the sd card slot -_-

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:21:43 +0000

To all of those looking to find a RAM upgrade at the right specs, all you have to do is go to crucial.com. There are a couple of options when you get there. The easiest one is on the main page and says “scan my system.” The website might ask you to download the scanner tool, but either way will tell you exactly what you have and give you the link for any upgrades that are available on their sight. If you want to buy the memory before you get the mini, under the “solid state drives” tab there is a link to “netbook upgrade center”, where you can choose manufacturer and model. Hope this helps everyone. I ordered my 2gb RAM this way and the computer runs great.

By: Bily Foster

Bily Foster — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:37:07 +0000

oh Elad, in response to watching an mp4. I have a 500meg mp4 of Mortal Kombat (I pulled off my dvds) on an SD card and it played it well, i won’t say it’s 100% perfect but it wasn’t anything major. also I was able to power my ext USB HDD via the USB but I wouldn’t recommend doing it without the AC adapter for a long period of time – hope that helps

By: Bily Foster

Bily Foster — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:29:34 +0000

I tried out the 8.9 version with 8g SDD and 512meg of ram, I was impressed however I took it back and got the one with the larger screen, 16g SDD and 1gig of ram, (which i upgraded to 2gig) I love it. I reloaded it with XP though because I have specific tasks I want to do on this bad boy. (Netflix, Slingbox, ect) The only thing that threw me off is the resolution is 1024 x 575 instead of the 1024 x 600, but it’s a great looking screen except for the stupid shiny gloss (whoever thought that was a good idea in the first place?) But I can’t wait for my JetFlash T3K 8GB USB Drive to arrive tomorrow so I have additional storage space

but streams netflix great, slingbox works great, so far A++++++ way to go HP… oh yeah and this doesn’t burn me like my HP Tablet does

By: Elad

Elad — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:04:57 +0000

I was looking at the 60GB version at Costco this AM. Has anyone loaded an AVI or MP4 movie onto an SD card and watched it on this computer? Safe to assume that power consumption would be a lot less than watching it from the HDD? I thought that I read on the spec card at Costco that expected battery life was 4 – 6 hours. Are they really only good for an hour and a half?

If the HDD is a 1.8″ and can’t be inexpensively upgraded, an option would be one of the WD Passport external USB drives. 160GB were on sale at buy.com last week for $49. Anyone know if the USB ports on the HP provide sufficient power to run an external HDD that doesn’t have a separate power supply?