I installed OS X 10.6 on my old HP Mini 1000 netbook the other day, and everything is running more or less fine except for on thing: I can't get WiFi working. Any Hackintosh experts have any suggestions? Nothing I've tried so far, including installing different kexts, has worked. The Mini 1000 boots up just fine, trackpad is working, etc.

UPDATE: Ended up digging some more and found a different kext which worked!

So if you remove the battery, there is a nice little find on the inside. A SIM card slot. Sadly, I don't see any way to use it, nor do I know if it actually works. I use my HP Mini w/ OS X anyway, it works really well w/ 10.6 even with 1GB RAM... but was just curious if anyone out there had A) gotten 3G data to work or B) knew anything more about it.

I am just about to do it, but am on travel until Sunday and don't want to risk any issues while on the road. If so, are there any issues?

Does anyone have experience in going from the smaller to the larger and have a rough estimation of how much battery life change, and how much it impacts the weight/portability of the netbook? Thanks!

Do I keep the Dell Mini 10v which is hackintosh'd running Snow Leopard but has a 160GB standard HDD or the HP Mini 1000 (first version) running Ubuntu Netbook Remix but has a 16GB SSD. Otherwise, specs are the same. Haven't done a true battery comparison because neither has run the same OS while I've had them. Thoughts? Need some help on this one.

I tried to watch a 720p video on my Mini 1000 (not because that quality was necessary, but just because that's what the file happened to be) and the computer completely choked. Is this a function that is just too much to ask of a netbook, or do you have any tips for making this happen? I'm running Windows 7 RC and upgraded to 2 gigs of RAM.

I had just assumed that the sound quality was crap on this until I loaded Ubuntu and it sounded great. Anyway after searching the interwebs for awhile I found this from Howard Forums: http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=15288... It's one tiny change in your registry that completely fixes the problem. Most of the other forums talk about using the Vista audio driver and that that disables USB bla bla bla... forget that, just follow the above instructions and itll go from night to day...

Ok so i'm running the windows 7 RC and there seems to be no obvious way to adjust my mini's screen brightness. There are function keys for this but after wiping the default xp install and throwing win7 on, they don't work. I'm assuming there was some driver for those keys to adjust that sort of thing, but it's gone now. I don't see any control for the screen within the mobility center app or among the control panel items. Anybody have a similar problem or fix for this??...

I've half-heartedly browsed the interwebs over the last 6 months or so looking for an 'official' solution to this problem, but haven't heard anything new since Engadget posted about it [ http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/hp-promises-fix... ] back in February. Does anyone know of anything new from HP since? My casual Google-searches have yielded hacks and fixes from other frustrated owners, but nothing official from HP. I'd prefer not to get dust... Read more →

I have the 1030NR version from Best Buy with the 16GB SSD. The drive seems to freeze up periodically and prevent you from doing ANYTHING with the computer until it catches up. Any suggestions on how to minimize this effect, other than totally swapping out the drive? Any reasonably priced replacement SSDs that would be better?