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HP Mini 1000: The Windows XP Netbook 16 Years Later (youtu.be)
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LGR retrospective on the HP Mini 1000, one of the more popular PCs from the short-lived era of the netbook! If you could even call it an era. In hindsight, it was all a bit silly, even though the 45nm processors making it possible were quite exciting at that point in time. So join me in reviewing the Mini 1000 that I had back in 2009 (or close to it) and putting it through its paces 16 years later!

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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

The 12" MacBook was more or less a revival of this, but with actually fairly good hardware vs the cheapest shit they could slap together.

One of those machines, but with an iPhone CPU (not even the full M1) would be killer. Outstanding battery life, more than enough horsepower to casually browse the web, and well I guess that's it. If only the modern web wasn't so hideously bloated.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't think you'd need to use an A-series SOC, considering the power usage of even a M4 is basically a rounding error - and they've already got M-series stuff running passively jammed into a tiny case anyways.

    I'd be on something like that immediately, but I somehow doubt Apple will ever make a 12" Macbook ever again, given that the majority of people seem to like the 13" airs just fine.

    Love to be wrong, though.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    The M1 going full tilt will use 35+ watts, vs like the A15 which I think people guess is limited to around 7 watts. I have a 10th gen and it gets outstanding battery life doing basically anything. Meanwhile the M1 powered iPads can actually drain pretty quickly. The CPU is efficient compared to a core i9, but 30 watts in a tablet is a lot for their battery.

    But the latest phone CPU constrained to say sub 10 watts would last an insane amount of time on even the smallest battery you'd put in a tablet/keyboard glued to a tablet running Mac OS. I get 10-15 hours of battery life on my M1 MBP, and most of the time I don't really need all that performance. If I could double that that would be insane.

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