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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