Comments on: Hackintosh one month review: Hp mini 1000 http://blog.tinyenormous.com/2009/09/29/hackintosh-one-month-review-hp-mini-1000/ arduino, robots, cameras, and life Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:56:02 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: TinyEnormous http://blog.tinyenormous.com/2009/09/29/hackintosh-one-month-review-hp-mini-1000/comment-page-1/#comment-1058 TinyEnormous Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:44:41 +0000 http://blog.tinyenormous.com/?p=699#comment-1058 thanks for your thoughts Larry! I agree, I am also excited about installing 10.6. I have done all of the install prep (even booted to the installer flash drive!), but haven't taken the plunge yet. I'll be sure to post some details when I do! thanks for your thoughts Larry!
I agree, I am also excited about installing 10.6. I have done all of the install prep (even booted to the installer flash drive!), but haven’t taken the plunge yet. I’ll be sure to post some details when I do!

]]> By: Larry http://blog.tinyenormous.com/2009/09/29/hackintosh-one-month-review-hp-mini-1000/comment-page-1/#comment-1057 Larry Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:10:22 +0000 http://blog.tinyenormous.com/?p=699#comment-1057 I have a HP Mini 1031NR that I bought from WalMart. I dual boot OS X 10.5.5 and Windows 7 and both are running great. It has a 160 GB hard drive so space is not an issue. I do not like the SSDs because the are too small. Everything works except the Microphone and the Ethernet Port. The Ethernet is not necessary if you have wireless and as far as the Mic that is not necessary either but I am looking for a fix to it so I can use iChat or Yahoo Messenger. I have had no issues with as far as using it. It is a nice little companion to have around the house. The only thing is that I can not upgrade it to 10.5.8. It crashes about 1/3rd through the install. That is not really an issue. I plan to try to upgrade it to 10.6 when I buy it for my iMac. Just waiting to make sure there are no issues with 10.6 before I upgrade on both. I have been following some of those posts too Hacintoshing other Netbooks and I am glad that I picked the HP Mini. HP makes a good product. Their quality is close to Apple's. If I would buy a regular PC, I would buy an HP and no one else's just because of that reason. I have a friend who works in Best Buy and they get a lot of returns on the other netbooks and not the HP one. The one that is the most crappiest is the Acer. They get returned the most. Well I must say that I am very happy with the HP Mini and how the hack turned out. I have a HP Mini 1031NR that I bought from WalMart. I dual boot OS X 10.5.5 and Windows 7 and both are running great. It has a 160 GB hard drive so space is not an issue. I do not like the SSDs because the are too small. Everything works except the Microphone and the Ethernet Port. The Ethernet is not necessary if you have wireless and as far as the Mic that is not necessary either but I am looking for a fix to it so I can use iChat or Yahoo Messenger. I have had no issues with as far as using it. It is a nice little companion to have around the house. The only thing is that I can not upgrade it to 10.5.8. It crashes about 1/3rd through the install. That is not really an issue. I plan to try to upgrade it to 10.6 when I buy it for my iMac. Just waiting to make sure there are no issues with 10.6 before I upgrade on both. I have been following some of those posts too Hacintoshing other Netbooks and I am glad that I picked the HP Mini. HP makes a good product. Their quality is close to Apple’s. If I would buy a regular PC, I would buy an HP and no one else’s just because of that reason. I have a friend who works in Best Buy and they get a lot of returns on the other netbooks and not the HP one. The one that is the most crappiest is the Acer. They get returned the most. Well I must say that I am very happy with the HP Mini and how the hack turned out.

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