The Intel Atom N270 CPU is pretty easy to overclock and underclock. So while the chip is described as a 1.6GHz CPU, it’s pretty simple to get it to run at speeds between 800MHz and 1.9GHz. In fact, Asus, MSI, and other netbook makers even include handy software utilities that will let you increase or […]
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How to add a touchscreen to a Dell Inspiron Mini 9
While few netbook makers have released mini-laptops with built in touchscreens, it seems like every time a new netbook hits the market, there’s some hacker willing to rip it apart and add a touchscreen the hard way – manually. But it’s taken a while for the first Dell Inspiron Mini 9 touchscreen hack to show […]
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Dell Mini hack: Adding a hard drive indicator LED
While some netbook makers *cough* *MSI* *cough* seem to feel the need to throw so many status LEDs on their case that it’s tough to tell what any individual blinking light means at a glance, others have taken a much simpler approach. The Dell Inspiron Mini 9, for example, has just two status lights: One […]
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Acer Aspire One hack: Adding a 3G modem
So you’ve got an Acer Aspire One netbook with WiFi, Ethernet, and just about anything you could need to connect to the internet – as long as you’re near a LAN or WiFi hotspot. But what if you want to make your netbook truly mobile. Like connect to a 3G cellular network mobile? Luckily Tnkgrl […]
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How to turn an Eee PC into a carputer
In what can only be described as one of the coolest netbook hacks to date, one Russian Eee PC 701 owner decided that his netbook would look better in his car’s dashboard than on his lap. So he set about to make it happen. The end result? An Eee PC-based carputer with GPS, Bluetooth, and […]
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How to adjust your Eee PC 901/1000 CPU speed to 1Ghz or 2Ghz
The Asus Eee PC 901 and 1000H netbooks ship with a Windows utility called the Asus Super Hybrid Engine that lets you overclock your Eee PC to run at 1.7GHz or underclock your machine to run at 1.2GHz rather than the standard 1.6GHz clock speed. This lets you boost your performance or battery, whichever you […]
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Hacking the Acer Aspire One
So you’ve purchased a shiny new Acer Aspire One netbook. Now what? Sure, you could use it for some light web browsing, editing office documents, and playing a few quick games. But that’s what Acer expects you to do. And where’s the fun in that? LinuxHaxor has put together a list of 30+ hardware and […]
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Dell Inspiron Mini hack: Adding GPS
Considering how small the typical netbook is, it’s amazing how much room there seems to be on the inside of a computer like the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 for adding extra components. It probably helps that consumer electronics components are shrinking even faster than laptops. A few days ago, we showed you how to upgrade […]
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Acer Aspire One retooled as a tablet-style UMPC
While Eee PC users wait to see whether the Aeeeris Tablet kit which will let them turn an Eee PC 701 into a tablet style computer ever materializes, it looks like at least one Acer Aspire One User has figured out how to build a cheap tablet PC out of his netbook. There’s not much […]
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How to build a (fake) MacBook Mini
Apparently it’s Apple day here at Liliputing. First we offer a little speculation on whether Apple will launch a netbook. Then we show you how to install OS X on a Dell Inspiron Mini 9. And now we have photos of a 100% fake MacBook Mini. A member of the German MSI Wind forums whipped […]