HP Mini 1000 10-inch: What OS are you running?

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Topic: What OS are you running?

62 replies / Originally posted by ohcapital / Latest reply from brandonLiveuh / Topic is open

By ohcapital

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Just thought it would be interesting to see what Os everyone is running on their Mini. One of the eighty million distros of Linux, Win 7, XP, Vista or OS X?

I've got the Windows 7 RC loaded right now and it's running fantastic. I might install the final product, although considering the OS costs almost as much as the computer itself, I might just end up switching back to UNR.

Posted 8 months ago

By nocarrier

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I'm running Windows 7 RC also. It was super easy to install. I just unpacked the files and installed from within XP. No need for a bootable thumbdrive or anything.

I'm impressed with the performance so far. I use Chrome as a nice lightweight browser, and I installed OpenOffice in case I need to work on any documents. I haven't had time to figure out all the cool features in Windows 7, but it looks really promising.

Anyone tried to OS X on their mini?

Posted 8 months ago

By dan325013

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how about Youtube? Does Youtube run at all? Or any flash video for that matter?

Posted 8 months ago

By GuildenNL

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Running both the original HP GUI on top of Ubuntu Linux and also running Jaunty Jackalope Ubuntu remix on it. Nothing Microsoft crosses our doorstep. How about a 12 sec startup time? Can't do that with Microsquash's OS! I've never understood why anyone would want to run MSFT OS on a netbook - it's the first and best opportunity to experience what you have been missing!

Posted 7 months ago

By ITLBOK333

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Windows 7 Home Premium. Runs like a champ. 2gb ram very pleased with the performance.

Posted 2 months ago

By brandonLiveuh

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Windows 7 Home Premium Final release

Came with HP Linux distro "Mi" which I ran for about 1 hour before putting Windows 7 RC
Later upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate then Home Premium Final release

Performance is great
All hardware works except the integrated Microphone / mic (very frustrating) so its useless for Skype

Posted 2 months ago

By inoxdragoon

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Running Win 7 RC with a pre-order of RTM already purchased. Upped the RAM to 2GB, run everything stock, only adding Live Mesh and the Harmony remote software... love it.

Posted 8 months ago

By nocarrier

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Are all of the Mini 1000s upgradeable to 2GB of RAM? HP's site says the XP models are maxed out at 1GB.

Posted 8 months ago

By dereknichols

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Microsoft has imposed a 1 GB maximum for computers that are being sold with the "netbook" license of XP (because the "netbook" license is significantly cheaper and they don't want this pricing being abused by computer manufacturers). So the most RAM you can get factory in a Mini 1000 is 1 GB, but the computer is fully compatible with an after market 2 GB upgrade. I have done it myself and highly recommend it.

Posted 8 months ago

By ubi79

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Windows 7RC, and loving it!

Posted 8 months ago

By juicycook

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I'm currently running windows XP. However I do plan to upgrade to Windows 7 once it is finally out.

Posted 8 months ago

By bmwracer0

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Fedora 11

Posted 8 months ago

By CUBSWILLWIN

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Windows Vista Home Premium, and eagerly waiting for my Win7 upgrade!

Posted 8 months ago

By llsmith05

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I just sent mine back for a fix, but I'm planning on throwing Ubuntu on it when I'm done. That said, I preordered Win7 and that could very well make it on there in Oct...

Posted 8 months ago

By AtomEdge

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I'm running Windows 7 RC. Runs fantastic and very snappy for the netbook hardware. I have a 1137nr and it runs fine with only the 1GB of ram.

Posted 8 months ago

By Jcoop9

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Dual booted with Win XP and Windows 7 RC. Windows is running great and the performance has been good. Just trying to learn the ins and outs of windows 7.

Posted 8 months ago

By wesg

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I run Leopard on my MacBook, but have a Win 7 RC going in Parallels, and use a Ubuntu powered file server.

Posted 8 months ago

By timm

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i'm rocking Winows 7.

Upgraded the stock SSD to a Runcore... HUGE improvement!

Posted 8 months ago

By zooted

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first time hearing of Runcore, I Bing'd it, it's awesome.

Posted 8 months ago

By Otaxxu

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I use Linux Mint 7 dual booted with Windows 7 RC.

Posted 8 months ago

By dereknichols

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I'm running XP, but I'm intrigued by Windows 7. I'll look into it once it comes out.

Posted 8 months ago

By dhulser

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Does anyone at all use the proprietary OS that ships with the mini 1000? HP Mi maybe its called? what do you think?

Posted 8 months ago

By keppy

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I tried my hardest to enjoy MIE, but the way hp made tweaking so annoying just frustrated me after about a weak. I switched to UNR 9.04 and I can say it is MUCH faster than MIE (which is based on Ubuntu 8.04). I wanted to like MIE, but after using UNR, it just seems like hp wasted a lot of time and money reinventing the wheel.

Posted 8 months ago