HP Mini-Note meets Windows XP

Last night I decided to see for myself how well the HP Mini-Note runs under Windows XP.  I did a clean install of Windows XP Pro and got my core applications installed.  Today I’m going to give it a test spin and see how much faster (if any) the Mini runs under XP.  Note that I didn’t find it ran particularly slow most of the time under Vista Business but I suspect overall it should be snappier under XP.  It was relatively easy to install XP as I found good instructions on the web from those who have found all the HP drivers needed for XP even though HP hasn’t released any officially yet.  I had to snap this photo from the install as it seemed eerily prophetic, those XP developers no doubt predicted what was yet to come in Vista:

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