Comments on: Upping the RAM on the Mini-Note; Still Not Giving Up on Vista

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:08:36 +0000

Hey,

I’m considering buying a hp mini 5101 2gb ram. I’m sick of windows and all of it’s errors, and too cheep to buy a mac; so I was wondering if I buy the netbook with windows (for school) can I still install umbuntu, or any other type of Linux software?

By: Mikes09123

Mikes09123 — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:55:03 +0000

I installed windows 7 on my mini note and it was running perfect sure the boot up screen was longer but still was not as long as a minute or minute 30 i started installing some heavy programs of which you would think would become sluggish and i must admit i have faced these problems but not as much as expected i installed adobe photoshop cs3 works fine boots quite fast i have also got cubase and many more other programs still have quite alot of memory left over but would still like to upgrade the ram just to have that extra speed which i can see making a difference will probably make a video of it

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:50:07 +0000

Well, vista will run for sure for mininote,but the modified one. just like the tiny xp and tiny vista..or you can nlite it. i had eee 701 4g on tiny vista with 1 gb and same with my HP mini note.

By: ben

ben — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:05:12 +0000

try windows 7, there is a netbook version out there that would be pretty cool to see in action

By: Stewart

Stewart — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:30:42 +0000

I have the HP Mini Note 2133 working with XP 1GB of RAM. It initially came with Linux installed and a 4 gig flash drive. We swapped out the HD for 200 gig and put XP on. XP SP1 fit on the 4gig flash but when we let it auto-update the service packs filled the 4 gig and needed more. The 4 gig flash had to go. Swapping the HD was easy except that the mount had to be modified to hold the HD. The Mini Note works great with XP. The only thing that doesn’t work well is the microphone. We now use a headset with integrated mic since the old mic sounded garbled.

We have 2 other laptops running Vista since HP doesn’t provide drivers for XP and the guess work isn’t worth the hassle (Core 2 Duo 2, 3GB RAM). We have gotten the Vista computers to run reliably by removing all the extra junk (unneeded programs) and shut down everything we don’t use in MSCONFIG. There is still a great lag / delay on Vista computer when compared to the XP computers. We don’t run anything overly intense either. Mainly Office 2007, PDF’s & Outlook. I don’t see any advantages on Vista. It seems to be tailored for children and older users who don’t know anything about computers.

By: fahad

fahad — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:04:36 +0000

Haev you tried Windows 7 Beta?

Thx…Fahad

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:22:50 +0000

Skype – and HP Mini Note 2133. 2GB Terrible reliability issues with Mini Note: Was on Vista, purchased new machine, installed XP – but Skype crashes after a few seconds. Sometimes movies crash with ‘Flash’ 10 issues. Performance seems to be very unstable – any ideas? especially with Skype?

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:52:16 +0000

Mark, you posted your comment on Nov 9th 2008, I believe new HP mini 1000 comes with Intel Atom already avaiable from HP site.

By: mark

mark — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:48:19 +0000

Great post, I’m considering an HP mini because of the excellent keyboard, it’s superior to any other netbook keyboard I’ve seen. If I get an HP I think I’ll wait until they get the Intel Atom processor, the Via is so underpowered. One option would be to install a Vista “light” version. I already use Vlite to customize my Vista installs, you could build a Vista install to suit the netbook and it might help a little.
I’m also playing with the Window 7 pre-beta and it seems pretty fast. I haven’t installed Skype on it or much else at this point but supposedly Steve Sinofski the guy in charge of Windows is using a netbook for his everyday machine, so it sounds very promising. I agree with your overall point of sticking with Vista over XP or Linux. XP just seems so old, and I seem to install each new version of Linux as it come around only to lose interest and uninstall it.

By: Chronoscon

Chronoscon — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:45:29 +0000

I dont see why you guys hate vista so much. I really like it and despised XP. This was why i was really looking forward to vistas release last year. Yes i know to run vista well you need at least core 2 and 2 gigs of ram, but i have a lot of faith in the mininote and have well tested it at a technical shop.

I think the problem is that you guys just have extremely high expectations – come on! Its a very small device. You guys just expect it to be amazing.