hp 10-in mini?

[Doug Poland]

On Nov 23, 2009, at 16:54, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:

>    gang,
>
>    I rarely glance at any come-on advertisement, but I just got
>    one by amazon that has a $380 HP Mini 10" computer for $200.
>
>    I want to use something about this size for my type-and-speech
>    computer.  I'm thinking more of the ASUS 9" notebook.  What
>    are people's thoughts on this?
>
>    (Yes, this is still an attempt to drive sales in a bad
>    downturn. etc.  Still, altho these tiny computers many be
>    manufactured in the same plant by the same corporation, it may
>    not make any difference.)
>
>    anybody on-list who cares to share?
>
>    gary
>
My wife has one of these running XP. I've booted and run both 7.1- 
RELEASE and 8.0-RC2 from external USB. It's a nice little piece of  
hardware. Unfortunately, the wireless chipset was not recognized. I  
did not pursue it any further.