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How to upgrade RAM on an HP Mini-Note

Started by Brad Linder · 1 year ago

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  • Josh

    1 year ago

    Not to seem dense, but are your icons/text to small after changing them to a larger format in the Display Properties? I couldn't find that you had looked at that in your articles and am interested to know myself while i weigh my options before i buy.
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  • Brad Linder

    1 year ago

    Yup, I've switched to larger icons and text. When you're sitting with the Mini-Note on a desk right in front of you, it's not really a problem. But when it's on my lap it tends to be a bit further away and harder to read. I'm still trying out various browsers. Opera is certainly the best, but it doesn't render some of the pages I use on a daily basis very well, so I'm looking into K-Meleon, which uses the same Gecko rendering engine as Firefox.
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  • Brad Linder

    1 year ago

    Whoops. I just noticed that I had changed my icons/fonts to extra large, but I had forgotten to change my DPI settings from 96 to 120. Now that I've done this, most things are a lot better. I'm still a bit disappointed with the default font size in Firefox and some other applications, but my eyes don't hurt quite as much as they did.
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  • BobH

    1 year ago

    Brad,

    First, many many thanks to you and the other experts out there keeping the rest of us informed on the developments and various work arounds with these machines. I am still trying to decide which one will be best for me, but it is beginning to look like an ideal machine would be the 1.2Ghz Mini Note with the 120GB drive with a dual boot XP/Ubuntu load. Any idea on when HP is likely to make XP available without having to go the route of getting Vista with their downgrade option? Also, any hints on which of the new low power chips HP is likely to adopt (and when)? Hopefully you have the contacts to guide us further and do not have to resort to a crystal ball on this one. Keep up the good work.
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  • Brad Linder

    1 year ago

    I've heard that HP will start offering HP around May 15th, but I haven't seen official confirmation of that date yet.
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  • BobH

    1 year ago

    Just saw the interview with Kyle Thornton in Laptop Mag and he said mid may. Also, appears that HP has not yet decided whether to go with Intel or ViA low power chip. Guess we will have to wait and see. Again, thanks for all your work.
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  • tim

    1 year ago

    nice work brad ! does upgrading ram help playback of 720p video ?

    what kind of frames are you getting on your current install ? cos ive seen a few reviews of vista videoplayback and they dont look too great, definately aiming at getting the suse install for myself
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