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]
posted Dec 29th 2008 10:02AM
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?
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
"...I'd love to be able to know..." Good Lord. :)
Also, where the F is the VGA adapter cable for this netbook?
Why are disassembly posts on Engadget always sexual? Isn't there another angle?
cuz it's nekked! [giggle giggle]
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"
I'm the only Dan allowed around here!
wow, fetishists is a really cool word.
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.
is the 700 aka the 1000? i thought the screen sizes were different.
Looks like there will be some extra parts when they put it back together.
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.