There are just a few days left to enter the final contest in the Liliputing Birthday Bash. To celebrate the site’s 1st birthday, we’ve been giving away prizes throughout the month of April. The final prize is a slightly used HP Mini 1000 Mi Edition netbook (the same unit I reviewed for the site a few months ago). The contest…

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The final prize in the month-long Liliputing Birthday Bash is a slightly used HP Mini 1000 Mi Edition netbook. This is the netbook HP sent me for a review I posted in February, so the box has been opened and the hardware has been fiddled with a bit. But the netbook is still in excellent condition, and you can’t beat…

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When HP launched the Mini 1000 netbook late last year, the company insisted on using a 1.8 inch hard drive instead of one of the 2.5 inch HDD’s more commonly found in laptops. This helps the netbook, which measure just an inch thick, keep its slim profile. But it also meant that the hard drive’s topped out at 60GB and…

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The HP Mini 1000 Mi Edition netbook is thin, light, and cheap. But it has one of the best keyboards found on any netbook, and a unique operating system based on Ubuntu Linux that sets it apart from the crowd. The Mi Edition interface is designed for users who aren’t familiar with Linux, and may not be familiar with computers…

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The HP Mini 1000 Mi Edition has one of the most interesting and innovative Linux interfaces found on any netbook. BusinessWeek describes the Mi Edition netbook as running Linux the same way that a TiVo does. In other words, you’d never even know it was Linux if you weren’t paying attention. Because you’re not greeted with a typical operating system…

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The HP Mini 1000 Mi Edition features a unique interface that makes the mini-laptop user friendly for users who aren’t familiar with Linux, or even computers. I spoke with an official from HP yesterday, and he said the idea was to create an interface that’s intuitive and easy to use. When I asked why there’s no taskbar or gnome-panel along…

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For the past few days I’ve been helping Adam McDaniel debug a system for building a LiveUSB from the HP Mini 1000 Mi Edition installer. Basically, Mi Edition is a custom version of Ubuntu with a slick black theme and a bunch of customizations that make Ubuntu a bit more user friendly for Linux newbies. The installer is available for…

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I’ve spent a fair bit of time over the last few days waxing poetic about how I think the HP Mini 1000 Mi Edition has one of the best thought out Linux user interfaces I’ve ever seen. But that’s not to say there aren’t some problems. First and foremost, my Mini 1000 crashed on Friday. Big time. Like I was…

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The HP Mini 1000 Mi Edition features a custom version of Ubuntu Linux designed for HP netbooks. But here’s a little secret: HP netbooks have many of the same components as mini-laptops from other companies. So you can install the Mi Edition software on most other netbooks and expect most things to work out of the box. What won’t work…

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Want to turn your HP Mini 1000 netbook into an HP Mini 1000 Mi Edition computer? HP has just uploaded the Mi Edition installers to its support page. Here’s what the installer does. It downloads HP’s custom version of Ubuntu Linux designed for the HP Mini 1000 and creates a bootable flash disk on your 2GB or larger USB flash…

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The HP Mini 1000 Mi Edition is basically an HP Mini 1000 running an Ubuntu Linux-based operating system that HP calls Mobile Internet Experience. It comes with a custom theme, a slick program launcher, and a home screen that provides quick access to your browser bookmarks. While I find it’s a little less responsive than Windows XP on the same…

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HP’s Mobile Internet Experience software is basically a custom version of Ubuntu Linux that includes a slick black theme and a nifty program launcher. It’s designed to run on the HP Mini 1000, but you may be able to install the operating system on other computers with similar hardware by creating a system restore disk. But if you want, you…

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