#HP MININOTE 1000 INSTALL#

If you use additional memory (USB thumbdrive, SD card, etc.) for ReadyBoost that helps. On first load after a start-up, Outlook will be sluggish, but after a couple minutes (perhaps once things are loaded into memory or cached?) it performs reasonably. Office 2007 (primarily Outlook), Office Communicator, Internet Explorer 8, Windows Live Messenger, Live Writer, Live Mesh The applications I’m regularly running (simultaneously) on the machine are: While I won’t be playing any first-person shooters on this machine, it is running fine for e-mail, web browsing, and general productivity activities. Here are the Windows Experience Index scores for Windows 7 Beta on the HP Mini 1000: Actually I feel this is a blessing as I wasn’t used to the feature, and when I was swiping my finger across the trackpad mouse, I would end up making the screen look like it was having epileptic fits. The only functionality I have lost, which I assume is a missing driver, is the HP Mini 1000’s special vertical scrollbar feature that is part of its trackpad. The installation finished in about 20 minutes, no issues.

#HP MININOTE 1000 INSTALL#

I did a clean install of Win7 (formatted the HP and installed Win 7 off a USB thumbdrive). I decided to test out the Windows 7 Beta and see how it runs on the HP Mini 1000. While the 10.2 inch display is comfortable enough to use when I’m mobile, at home I like being able to remote desktop into the laptop so that I can utilize a larger monitor and ergonomic keyboard. The machine ran great using XP Home – however I’m used to running Windows Vista (I know – a collective gasp from folks out there cursing Vista… I honestly like it and feel that if you have the right hardware, Vista is definitely a worthy upgrade to XP) and wanted a few of the features in Vista that are missing from XP Home.

The out-of-the-box specs of the machine I have are: I’ve had the HP Mini 1000 netbook for a month now and have been happy with it as a lightweight portable machine.

Hp mininote 1000