hp 10-in mini?

[Al Plant]

Doug Poland wrote:
> 
> 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 
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Aloha,

The chipset is a Broadcom and I think there maybe a driver now. BCM4312 
is the one in mine.

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