Compaq Mini 700 innards exposed by Italian fetishists

Ever wonder how netbooks pack all that laptopy goodness into such small packages? Laptop Italia has your answer, tearing a Compaq Mini 700 (aka HP Mini 1000) into its individual components, supposedly for the sake of enabling you to repair the thing at home, but we think the real motivation is rather less instructional and more exhibitionistic. Regardless of your intentions, the site provides an extensive guide on how to take apart HP's tiny laptop, starting by pulling the battery and ending with a picture of where the 3G modem would go if this particular model had one. Unlike some teardowns we've seen in the past, this clinical looking disassembly, if reversed, looks like it might actually put the thing back together again -- if you're into that sort of thing.

[Thanks, faber]

[Tyler @ Dec 29th 2008 10:06AM]

I just got a mini 1000 and I'd love to be able to know whether people have been able to add the HP branded 3g modem without all the hacking that JK Mobile did. Is it pre-wired for the antennas?

[216 @ Dec 29th 2008 10:16AM]

The 3g card is in the same slot as the ram. Thing is, even if you add a card, you can't enable it without hacking the BIOS

[OneLove @ Dec 29th 2008 11:31AM]

"...I'd love to be able to know..." Good Lord. :)

[Tyler @ Dec 29th 2008 10:09AM]

Also, where the F is the VGA adapter cable for this netbook?

[Dan @ Dec 29th 2008 10:40AM]

Why are disassembly posts on Engadget always sexual? Isn't there another angle?

[gonintendo @ Dec 29th 2008 11:02AM]

cuz it's nekked! [giggle giggle]

[Arkenklo @ Dec 29th 2008 11:20AM]

Just because you're not into certain things does'nt mean that you can go around, thinking you better then everyone else. If you don't like the way we are, then go complain somewhere else! We don't want to hear any from you, you filthy, racist biggot! That's it, just run away! Run back to your mommy!

[dan @ Dec 29th 2008 12:00PM]

@ "Dan"
I'm the only Dan allowed around here!

[Vorin @ Dec 29th 2008 11:45AM]

wow, fetishists is a really cool word.

[vance @ Dec 29th 2008 12:21PM]

I want to know if you could take the guts out of the new Mini 1000 and put them in the aluminum case of the earlier mini-note 2133.

[NM @ Dec 29th 2008 12:56PM]

is the 700 aka the 1000? i thought the screen sizes were different.

[Mike @ Dec 29th 2008 12:58PM]

Looks like there will be some extra parts when they put it back together.

[adelossa @ Dec 29th 2008 2:10PM]

That always happens to me when I'm taking apart a laptop to clean out the fans or reseating the CPU.

I think I should work for a laptop manufacturer because I know how to save them a few screws.