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!
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.
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.