Coffee Break- Netbooking with MiFi

By James Kendrick | Tuesday, May 12, 2009 | 4:11 PM CT | 6 comments | Tweet This (3)

coffee_man_2 I decided to live the mobile life and am sitting comfortably in one of the local coffee establishments. I am not using the Viliv S5 UMPC with the Bluetooth keyboard as I didn’t want to hear yet again that a notebook would be easier to carry.

Today I am happily pounding away on the HP Mini 1000 since I installed Windows 7 RC last night. It went on the Mini 1000 like greased butter and the only thing not working after the installation was the integrated microphone. That was remedied with a simple download of a new driver from HP and everything is working great.

Windows 7 runs very well on the Mini 1000, better than the Linux installation with the HP desktop shell they put on the 1000 Mi. It runs at a brisk pace and the new interface in Windows 7 works very well on this 10-inch screen. There was 5.5 GB of the 16 GB SSD free after the clean install of Windows 7. I have a 4 GB SDHC card for extra storage if needed, which I shouldn’t since I am angelically living in the cloud.

I am using the Verizon MiFi of course, not because there is no free Wi-Fi here (there is) but because I am evaluating it for your benefit. Plus I don’t need free Wi-Fi with my own personal 3G bubble following me around.

Comments (6)

James, wouldn’t the Viliv have been easier to carry that that netbook?

Sorry, couldn’t resist. On a side note I picked up a very cheap Acer Aspire One for my partner to use while our Dell Mini 9 is in for repair. After major surgery whereby I upped the ram from 512 to 1.5Gb, and added in a Broadcom Wireless N card to replace the Atheros, I’ve put Win 7 RC1 on it and the experience is the same, really, really nice. I’m now taking for granted things like aero peek, shake etc and miss them on XP/Vista machines.

Gavin Miller — 4:44 PM on May 12, 2009 Reply