My Mini 110 is pretty great. Simple little machine, great keyboard, good for cloud-based stuff. One drawback is the webcam. So dark it's virtually unusable. I've read the mini 1000 and others have the same problem, and can be fixed with a little surgery. (Apparently, there's a protective film on the lens, left from manufacturing. This can be removed by wedging the screen open...?) I was wondering if anyone had tried this hack? Or if I'm basically stuck with being in the shadows.

My only real issue with it is that often, when trying to wake it back up from closing the lid, the system is so slow and unresponsive that I end up having to reboot. It works fine after the reboot.

First, use nlite to slipstream the drivers for AHCI (otherwise the computer will BSOD) http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Operating-systems-and... The chipset of mine (HP Mini 110-1145NR) used the "940GML, 943GML, 945GM, 945GMS, 945PM, 945GSE or NM10 chipset" drivers (ICH7) My windows install disk was already SP2, you may need to slipstream in SP2 for this to work Then once nLite gets done with the slipstreaming, copy the i386... Read more →

Have mine running 10.5.8 and I love it. Still hoping to figure out the sleep issue though.