Are netbooks still usable in 2021? - A review of the HP mini 110 Netbook
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- In this video, I'm testing the HP mini 110 netbook. Originally released in 2010 with an intel atom N455 CPU and 1GB of ram. I upgraded it to 2GB and now it's time to find out how usable this netbook still is (spoiler alert: not all that much)
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:37 - Cleaning
01:01 - Starting the netbook up
01:17 - Installing programs
01:33 - Programs that I could not install
01:47 - Connectivity
02:15 - Keyboard
02:23 - Function keys
02:29 - Webcam
02:34 - East to get to Ram and HDD
02:48 - Hinge test
02:55 - RUclips test
03:20 - Keyboard test
03:41 - Caps lock light
03:49 - Function keys
03:56 - Userbenchmark
04:14 - Heaven
04:20 - Minecraft
04:27 - Roblox
04:34 - Freddy Fazbears Pizzaria Simulator
04:44 - Ultimate Custom Night
04:51 - Euro Truck Simulator 2
04:56 - Bus Simulator 12
05:03 - BeamNG Drive
05:09 - CS:GO
05:14 - Pc Building Simulator
05:22 - Final opinion
06:00 - Outro
Games tested:
Minecraft
Roblox
Freddy Fazbears Pizzaria Simulator
Ultimate Custom Night
Euro Truck Simulator 2
Bus Simulator 12
BeamNG Drive
CS:GO
Pc Building Simulator
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Hi! can someone ask Which wifi Manufacturer driver should i install? i forgot which one is i have the same laptop even toady
I'm not sure which exact card you have but as a quick tip, if you take off the back panel you should be able to see the manufacturer of the wifi card printed on the wifi card
I've tried tons of netbooks over the years, and right now I have a similar HP Mini that I'm finally planning to keep. It is one of the latest models with a dual core Atom N2600 (4 threads!!) and the Full-HD capable GMA 3600 iGP. I managed to install 4 GB RAM, but due to factory limitation of HP, this machine can only run in 32 bit operation unfortunately, because EM64T instruction set is missing, despite the CPU itself is 64 bit based on Intel's specification. So the system only sees 3 GB this way (still better than 2 tho), and the remaining 1 GB is used by the iGP as shared vram, at least according to dxdiag. This is my first netbook that can actually play 720p livestreams in browser without any issues, so finally I can watch F1 sessions on 10 inches while on the go. :))
Oohh, I'm right now working on a review on another netbook, a HP 2133 Mini-Note. It's not only smaller than the netbook in this video, but the screen looks a lot better and for some reason the VIA C7-M combined with 2GB of DDR2 ram seems to be faster than the hp mini 110. I'm pretty curious how it will perform in daily tasks!
I just recently 'revived' my hp Mini. Having it installed with lubuntu it works great as a web browser or to play retro games. It plays from before 2005 really well. It isn't dead or useless in 2022. You just need to find a right use case for this little machine. But nice video nevertheless. Subbed!
Its all about finding the right use case yeah! I've been testing a different hp mini, mainly been using it to write scripts and other documents on and it's been great avoiding the bulk of laptops while keeping a physical keyboard!
I just dub my Mini out of a box, booted it up still works. I want to install Linux as well I wthink it would give the old girl new life.
@@cyber13337 Got a Compaq mini 110 recently, installed Linux Lite on it and it does the trick : light machine, easy to carry around, write, browse the web and watch videos. Got it dirt cheap from flea bay, with a new battery. Far cheaper that any tablet which has an obnoxious OS and no keyboard.
I just revived my HP Mini 1010NR as well (2024). I had got a really good deal on mine when they first came out, and I upgraded the RAM from 512MB to 2GB and it still only has an 8GB SSD. I had replaced Windows XP with Lubuntu. Just the other day after not looking at it for years I wanted to see f I could get Zorin OS 15.3 Lite 32 bit on it. It worked and even has LibreOffice on it from the Zorin install. In the years since I bought the Mini I was able to get another great deal on a tablet (Windows) but frankly I hate it. I just don't like touch for input. I love the Mini's keyboard and don't find it small at all. It's good to have it back, btw I think Zorin has a more modern look than Lubuntu. JMO
This thing is a beast... I used to watch cartoons on it when I was small in 2011, and after rough use it still survives, it has even dropped many times. Such a durable laptop.
Nice video!
I have an HP Mini 110-3018ca. I've upgraded the RAM to 2gb and put in an old hybrid HDD from a newer laptop. I only use it with Lubuntu and for typing up notes. Thankfully running Linux allows RUclips to run 360p on Chromium or Brave.
What Lubuntu build did u use i am kinda tempted to try the same to make it more responsive.
I only used windows 7 starter in testing it but I'm definitly tempted to dig it out of the attic and test how it would run with Linux
@@TygoDoesStuff youtube sucks on it though. The only way it doesn't is through VLC. Media stream or downloaded movies.
Yeah youtube is pretty demanding on weak and old hardware and this netbook had both of those things
Can it be used for data analysis with excel ?
2gb ram and ssd is a good upgrade have you installed windows 10 64bit?i am trying to find the drivers
I did not install Windows 10 due to missing drivers, the windows 7 install that was on this netbook had all the drivers installed from the factory
hey did you tried to update the gpu drivers ? i have the same pc but it can run minecraft 30 fps
I tried the drivers from the intel site, but they didn't help, which version of minecraft do you play? It could be that a older version runs better on this laptop
@@TygoDoesStuff its version 1.9 but the laptop came with the gpu driver already installed (GMA 3150) and i have an another hp laptop its hp 530 it came with intel gma 950 and it run minecraft well (almost 25 fps at lowest with optifine)
@@TygoDoesStuff and did you choose the right operating system of the driver ?
even with every driver installed it still bad compared to my main laptop hp elitebook 8440p they are both relesed in the same year so yea it sucks
I think that its the version that I tested + that I tested without optifine. I tried to run 1.16 without optifine
My netbook’s LCD is starting to have distorted lines (damage screen i guess). Can this be fixed?
If the lcd is damaged you cant repair it sadly :( your only option is to replace the entire lcd screen
@@TygoDoesStuff and i have no idea where to buy them lcd since the unit is already way too old and obsolete
@@somedayswithmel I found one here on aliexpress (www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=SB_20220825041637&SearchText=hp+mini+110 ) you can also try searching on ebay, sometimes people sell parts on there
@@TygoDoesStuff thanks Tygo
What type of hard drive does this laptop have? I wanna get an SSD for mine, but i dont know if it will even fit or im worried if i buy the wrong one or something.
I have one, the 1151NR that I’m messing with right now, which i will be adding a 128GB 1.8” 40 pin ZIF SSD and I’ve heard of people adding 2x2gb DDR2 ram of which only 3 would be recognized. I’m messing with this simply as a platform to run Linux and mess with it as a portable SDR unit. We will see.
@@inkgeek007 that 1.8 40 pin zif ssd is expensive. Does it even matter what kind, or can i just buy some ssd?
@@Tamay. no you have to get the 40 pin Zif ssd. It’s a flat ribbon cable connection. I think I saw a board that would convert it to a simple ssd drive but to be honest it’s kind of cool to mess with it. Also keep in mind it’s a 1.8” drive not the standard 2.5”.
I just bought a second 1151nr and it’s actually a better unit for half the price. Since I’m just learning Linux I of course wiped everything and am now scrambling to get (actually scrambling is a pretty strong description, I simply looked it up) to get the bios and drivers back.
I’m looking at running Kali Linux on them and refer to them as “thing 1 and thing 2” I’ll let you know at I progress.
@@Tamay. also we can all think Apple for the zif drive pricing. My understanding is they are the drives in iPods.
ssd work fine in my netboobk asus(2010)
Guys I also have HP min 110 and i wanna try at least some decent games what games should I try ?
In mini hp not showing Google chrome or anything. Please help me out
Google Chrome is a proprietary fork of Chromium en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)
in fact i am watching this video on my hp mini and it is still in great condition
Ooh cool!! What OS are you running on your hp mini?
Use Linux and replace the hdd with an SSD
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I would like to know what the charger for this uses.
The charger that I used was a 40W, 19,5V 2.05A charger with a 4,0 mm * 1,7 mm tip. I hope this helps you. The charger is the NSW24468 one
@@TygoDoesStuff
Thank you very much. That's very helpful, I'll try to find a charger for it.
I have one of these I installed Linux onto. I run piHole, a NAS and a VPN off of this laptop. It's also a great tool to learn bash scripting and Python.
Overall, I'm able to get a lot more use out of my old netbook in 2022 :)
Ohh cool!! Thats a use case I didn't think of when I wrote this review but nice that you can still keep this netbook going in 2022!
As and emulator it could be decent maybe, the tdp being that low is kinda nice!
That could maybe work, I might just give that a try and see how well it can do that
@@TygoDoesStuff Wow, that's insane! I also own the same model, and I still keep it. However the HDD is broken. Could you please try office products, such as word, excel, and powerpoint? I think 2007, 2010 ver will work fine, 2013 will lag a bit, but who knows since it's been 12 yrs. So could you please make a video to reveal whether is it still capable to do those simple tasks or no? Thank you so much
Interestingly, an SSD swap to replace the original 5400rpm drive on my Asus EEE Pc 1005HA made little to no difference in speed and performance. Also, there seemed to be no difference in performance between Windows 10 20H2 and Linux Mint 19.3 (that is the last 32bit release that Mint are issuing). The battery is still amazingly working after more than 11 years! Pretty much unusable as per Tygo's experience. Even a simple web app for password management destroyed it (with only firefox running). Maybe an even lighter environment than Cinnamon would offer a decent experience, but these atom-based CPU's are no longer viable. Only reason am not trashing it is because it still works, and the keyboard on this unit was amazin. So... back to notepad in 2021 :)
I think that the biggest bottleneck in these old netbooks is the cpu as the manufacturers had to put in the most energy efficient cpus in them so they wouldn't heat up too much and drain the battery fast
A 64bit arch Linux installation runs surprisingly well in my experience, even Firefox runs fast with 100 tabs open
@@EricLatios Fair enough, but 32bit architecture on these machines is what it is.
I have heard some good things about Linux on this machine. Next time I'll see it I'll try installing Linux on it since I'm pretty interested in if there's a performance boost
Oh I was referring to my similar netbook hp mini 5103, it has 64bit support
I have this laptop, but mine is using N475 which is a little faster than that. I modded it to tiny 10 and it’s now usable, ms office 2013 runs well, RUclips playback runs at 480p. It can only run GTA 3 and Vice City. NFS Underground onwards won’t run. And some games from 2005 onwards won’t even start.
Opinion: few upgrades will make it usable for a bit
I run linux mint on mine little rotten carcass. It works fine for programming in fortran and just that. Opening Firefox is painful. But it does it job, compiles stuff well, writes on latex well.
Ohh cool! That's a nice use case to use it for. Good to see some of these netbooks still in use!
@@TygoDoesStuff one of my friends uses a similar netbook as a Nextcloud server
Looking after starting up a Mini that has been sitting in the cupboard since 2009. Amazed it still starts up without an issue. The sound is horrible. It's slow (outdated 1.6MHz CPU, just 1gb ram) and it's a shame to say it's pretty much ewaste now. Better to play around with newer laptops with faster processor and at least 8gb ram if on a tight budget.
some 90s era Windows applications and games would work e.g. Flight Simulator 98, Age of empires
Yeah, this netbook is still usable for some retro gaming!
does it have HDMI?
No, this netbook sadly does not have a HDMI port
I have one with an atom n570 it's like 20-30% faster than urs and with the right browser and performance mode on windows 7 ultimate it can do youtube at 720p with little stuttering or 480p zero lag at all. I think the problem might you are using something like chrome, when i usef that it lagged even at 480p.
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Is this a 64bit netbook?
No, it runs a 32-bit operating system
The CPU itself is actually 64 bit capable, but it doesn't really make any sense due to the hardware limitation of handling only a maximum of 2 GB RAM. The first netbook chip that could actually benefit from 64 bit operation was the Atom N2600 launched in 2012.
retro games like 16 bit games will play awesome on it though
Yeah thats true! For retro gaming this is actually a good machine!
@@TygoDoesStuff installed batocera on it, plugged in a 2 player arcade and a bigger monitor.
i installed the zorin os 15.3 lite (linux) to an same laptop and it works well for everything except gaming or yt video watching if i set video frame rate to 60fps
oohh! I might try linux on this netbook as well, I've heard a lot of good things about linux on this netbook!
Just seeing your post after I posted above. I just replaced Lubuntu (after Windows XP) with Zorin 15.3 Lite 32 bit from SourceForge. It is a definite improvement over Lubuntu, in looks and function.
@@jethro1963 Is your laptop same as in the video? Maybe the specs of your laptop is a bit better than my hp mini 110.
Edit: Im not saying it is unusable at all. Just simply not the best for the tasks i mentioned in my previously comment. For anything else it is still an affordable option.
@@imbot3804 HP Mini 1010NR, upgraded the RAM from 512MB to 2GB and it still only has the original 8GB SSD.
@@jethro1963 Dude. If your laptop was available with ssd originally. Your laptop must be much younger and stronger than what i talking about (the exact hp mini 110 which is much weaker than your) . So of course you will have much better experience than me.
im commenting on a netbook right now mines decently fast though
Which netbook are you using?
i was playing roblox on this thing AT 2015
Yeah roblox seems to have gotten much more resource intensive the last couple of years. I can't even launch roblox on this netbook last time I used it :(
This is great and all but you need to go more in depth on how other things work on it not just gaming netbooks we’re not designed for gaming at all so you should have tried doing something like video editing or writing a report or just see how the os overall works on the thing. Gaming is too far fetched for one of these
Both of mine function as I wanted minus the ability for some reason to full load Kali Linux. I went with MX Linux which loaded right up without issue. The intention was to use one for self hacking my system and the other for sdr operations. I think I’ll probably utilize Thing1 as the sdr unit and Thing2 as a frequency and wave form analyzer unit. I read somewhere there is a pretty sweet usb driven antenna turner. More research for that one.
Yeah I wanted to try it out as a second little laptop to bring for writing stuff on but it just sucks that these machines (or at least the one I own) has a bug where it won't accept any battery and will only work off of wall power
@@TygoDoesStuff yeah I just recently got one and the ports on it won’t work with any os I try
Oof that sucks. I bought a new battery for mine but it just didn't recognize it so the new battery was just a waste of money
@@TygoDoesStuff was it off brand
Does Roblox work?
bahahahah lol no. A better question would be does Google Chrome works ? And the answer would be, still no. It is just to writing stuff
No, roblox doesn't work due to directX limitations
I got one for 50€ pretty sure i got scammed kinda
Yeah that sounds a bit like a rip-off :(. But it's still a cool little machine to mess around with
@@TygoDoesStuff Im going to sell it soon but first i want to mess around with it like installing Windows 11 or something like that. They still go up to like 80€ in my country so I’ll try making some profit with the SSD too.
@not0verrated what do you mean
@not0verrated thats why im doing that non uefi version of windows 11
MY SONS Hp MINI USTO WORK JUST TO RECENTLY TODAY WE SWITH IT ON AMD DOESNT POWER ON 😑 IT WAS A GIFT FROM HIS FATHER BUT MY SON HE NEVER USE IT BCS HE DIDNT LIKE IT BCS IS TOO OLD MODEL AND HE HAS HIS PC GAMING WHICH IS WAS MY CHRISTMAS GIFT SO HE ALSWES USE IT THE PC I LEFT IT ON SO LETS SEE IF IT WILL TRUN ON TODAY LATER ON BUT I DONT THINK SO 😮...
Do no lights turn on when you try to start it?
@Tygo Does Stuff Hi mate 👋and thanks for the question. No, it doesn't trun on a light atole. I was let it plug on for a while but still it was the same so it's for the trush now or he can take it to some nearest laptop repair shop in London just to chake may be the charger has stop to work or is damaged bcs we have travelled a lot in last 4 months and Could be during the transport gets damaged.
Roblox can't work on window 7 starter you have too make it windows 10
I didn't know that, I used windows 7 starter because this netbook can't run windows 10 all too well
Thanks for the video now it goes into the trash!?
No I kept it, it's somewhere in my attic waiting on me to use it again (I mainly use this netbook for trying to install linux and old programs)
BRUH no CS:GO for this pc it's CS:1.6
I'll try running CS 1.6 on this netbook next time I'll test it!
Can you give me that hp mini for free
No I'm sorry. It's somewhere in my attic but I want to keep it around to mess with it
Yes I have one with no charger