Comments on: HP Mini 1000 Team Review (Hackintoshing)

By: Allen in IT

Allen in IT — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:31:17 +0000

EUREKA! we have found a solution.

You need an external monitor that is capable of higher resolution, which is almost any monitor. Plug the monitor up via VGA cord to the HP MINI and chenge the view to only project on the VGA monitor (hit the F4 Key). Now that the resouliton is much hugher, you can start the CS3 install with no hiccups. After the install, remove the VGA cord and revert back to the HP MINI’s screen (F4 Key) and launch the software. Violla, you have CS3 working perfectly fine!

Enjoy!

Please repost anywhere that ppl are having this issue.

-Allen in IT

By: Francesca Lopez

Francesca Lopez — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:44:13 +0000

Anybody know if the bugs for the hackintosh on the HP mini work? If so, anybody in the Inland Empire are of Southern California can do it for us non-computer literate individuals for a fee?

By: Justin Reyes

Justin Reyes — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:21:22 +0000

I have a MSI Wind U100 and I hackintoshed it. So far so good only complaint is the screen is kinda small and the touchpad is kinda ehh…. But other than that it makes a great Macbook Mini… or Lite

MSI Winds are awesome btw…. great keyboard and all. The HP Mini is nice but still prefer the MSI Wind

Also anyone know how to install Chameleon? Cause I’m using the ISO image (MSIWindosx86.iso) that is put into a 4GB partition (using Leopard HD Install Helper) as a bootloader…. using the Darwin x86 bootloader. But there’s this 5-second thing where it boots to the installer (since it’s the installer’s bootloader)…. I really don’t like that… since everytime I restart a PC I usually leave to get something…

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:54:02 +0000

Hi Dave,
Great review. I just picked up a Compaq mini 110 (which i believe is the same as the hp). I’ll be hackintoshing it shortly, but just wanted to know…how’s the SwitchResX working for you? I need to use a music software that requires 1024 x 768, and being able to convert to this resolution will be a make or break deal for me. Please let me know, thanks!!

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:13:23 +0000

Is there a reason why the HP Mini 1000 runs extremely slow while using Windows Xp SP3? Sometime there is a 1 second lag while browsing the internet.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:53:06 +0000

David: very nice guide to put Snow Leopard on a HP Mini. I wonder if your method will work on a HP 2140….

By: David Vogler

David Vogler — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:19:50 +0000

May I suggest:

http://www.davidvogler.com/hackintosh

Cheers!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:44:52 +0000

I’ve just purchased an HP Mini 110 and I sure wish it were possible to do this without sacrificing the audio and the ethernet. The keyboard and overall design of the HP minis work much better for me than those of any other netbook I could find on the market. Physically they are close to ideal.

By: WalterMC

WalterMC — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:24:24 +0000

Can someone please post a link where I can download an image of mac os to run from a pendrive on my hp mini, thanx

By: Mikel

Mikel — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:57:01 +0000

I am so interested in doing this with my HP Mini as well. I was curious if you could give any guidance on which version you got to install. I have tried a few and never had any luck and was curious if you had any real specs on it Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Mikel

By: rauy

rauy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:06:07 +0000

hi, I’m back! Good news; I’ve successfully transformed my HP Mini 1001TU into a MacBook Mini
I’ve updated to 10.5.7, upgraded the ram up a notch to 2 gigs and did some tweaking and voilà! Sweet!
Thanks a lot!

By: Miles

Miles — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:36:28 +0000

for audio to work on the HP Mini… copied this from myhpmini.com, they have great tutorials and discussion threads:

Follow this link to download voodoohda.kext.

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=161638

Make sure to uninstall azalia or applehda before isntalling this kext. Mic still doesn’t work and audio resets when it wakes from sleep/reboot/shutdown but at least you have audio.

I have installed this on my HP Mini 1137NR.

Hope this works for you.

By: S. Jean

S. Jean — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:54:14 +0000

Any luck with getting sound out of the HP Mini? If so, any tips on getting it to work? Thanks!

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:16:00 +0000

I’m writing this on a mini i’ve converted into a hackintosh.

It’s the only laptop PC that i’ve ever bought (usually a mac guy) but i really like the netbook form factor. I’ve installed 10.5.5 and i find it runs much more stable than the other two OS’s i tried, the preinstalled XP sp2, which i’m quite used to, and the ubuntu netbook remix, (jaunty) which i expected alot more from.

As it stands with the netbook remix, i can have sound or wifi, depending on the kernel. I know there is a way to get wifi back with the newer kernel, but i gave up after a week.

I got the hackintosh operational in under 2.5 hours after the downloads (i do own several retail 10.5.4 disks)

I have sound, wifi, webcam, accelerated graphics, sadly it was easier to do all this with a “hacked” os. It’s easily twice as responsive as it was under ubuntu, and roughly the same (although i feel xp was slower) than xp.

there is nothing to fear here, if you’ve ever used top instead of activity monitor.

By: Filippo

Filippo — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:54:59 +0000

Hi All,
do you know if is it possible to install a softphone app like linphone in the linux version of the hp 1120 nr ?

Thanks,
Filippo

By: shao fong

shao fong — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:49:49 +0000

Hi, just recently a friend told me about hackintosh-i’m not a big tech fan so all this, even though it’s been around for some time, is all new to me. Just wanted to ask if by any chance you’re putting up a site with a step by step instruction on how to “hackintosh-ize” a HP mini 1000? I’d happily pay for the knowhow Hope to hear from you, and great work with your hackintosh-ing skills!

By: MajorTron

MajorTron — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:36:17 +0000

I’ve been looking at the HP mini 1000 for a few days and I am wanting to go to a hackintosh version, but with the mention of the ethernet and audio drivers, I am now unsure. Has anyone had any luck in addressing the driver issues associated to the mini 1000?

By: HP Mini 1000 Netbook - Running Linux — The Gadgeteer

HP Mini 1000 Netbook - Running Linux — The Gadgeteer — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:00:41 +0000

[...] I’d prefer a Mac OS X netbook (to match my Mac desktops and laptop), I’m a bit too lazy to hackintosh my Mini, so I’m going to use Linux until Apple gets around to entering the netbook [...]

By: michi

michi — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:46:54 +0000

i want it all… do you have a hint for a bootloader which is able to handle lets say 2windows (32 & 64 bit) 2 linux (ubuntu & suse/fedora) and a hackintosh. (not talking about a sunos)

i want one! (one with a little bit of usability, one which is able to be used by a computer professional, which has not spent his whole live on studiing undocumented bootoptions…

By: rauy

rauy — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:02:14 +0000

Hi Dave! Interesting project. I’ve been dabbling with the hackintosh project for some time now, my MSI Wind is running OS X Leopard really great.
Now I bought an HP Mini 1000 and tried booting off with one of the customer DVD’s downloaded from the net for this. But I always get stuck at this line:
MAC framework successfully initialized using 5242 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers

Did you experience the same problem? What installation DVD did you use exactly?

I’d appreciate it if you’d send me an email. Thanks in advance for your help.

By: Haesslich

Haesslich — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:45:29 +0000

shkermaker: For the same reason people have lived with Windows for the past 20 years – because even with the disadvantages, they worked better than much of the competition at the time, and they’re everywhere. Now if Apple would capitalize on that market of people who want smaller, lighter (if less capable) Macs which don’t cost more than a regular MacBook, they’d have another market locked down pretty fast… just as they have with the music player market, even though Creative and others came out with hard-drive based players before the iPod.

By: shkermaker

shkermaker — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:39:43 +0000

Haesslich – I’m not arguing that Apple should design a solution like the newer range of netbooks, all i’m pointing out is that from the reviews i’ve read Hackintoshing creates issues such as power management issues, driver problems and other hardware related headaches for devices that havent been designed for Mac OS. Why have a device where some of the features just wont work?

By: Michael Murray

Michael Murray — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:56:02 +0000

What is the battery life like running Mac OS X ? Can I manage the power usage ?

Thanks – Michael

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 02:23:12 +0000

Cool- 2 more reviews coming- I really like some of the things coming out of this!

By: Haesslich

Haesslich — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:39:56 +0000

shkermaker – until Apple acknowledges that there’s a market for ultra-mobile computing that the Air doesn’t QUITE cover (being somewhat more expensive and a little larger than some laptops, much less notebooks), ‘hackintoshes’ are about the only ultra-mobile Apple experiences we’ll see short of a revival of the Newton-style PDA/tablet Mac.

Still, of all the netbooks out there, the HP Mini 1000 and 2140 are probably the best-looking of the bunch, without looking ‘cheap’ the way the Aspire One or some of the Eee’s do. They seem to have taken design cues from Apple’s designers regarding the elegance of simplicity and the virtues of not having stickers all over the place.