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First post, by Ultrax

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I've had this machine for a long time (8 and a half months as of this posting) but it never really occurred to me to talk about it here.

I purchased an HP Mini 311 off of eBay. It came with Windows 7 on it, so I used it for light tasks. Then I noticed the NVIDIA Ion sticker on the palmrest. Looked it up only to learn that it is in fact a 9400M! I decided to run OpenArena on it, and much to my amazement, it ran incredibly well!

After a period of not using it, I decided to put XP on it with the help of Easy2Boot. This is where things got awesome. I realized that I now had my favorite XP games, on the go, in a tiny form factor!

Specs:
Intel Atom N270 (Could be better, but does work well)
Nvidia Ion (9400M)
2 GB DDR3
11 inch LED backlit display (Excellent screen!)
160 GB hard drive

This thing is awesome. It runs all of my XP games very well, while staying small and very cute. The built in speakers are among the best I've heard in a laptop, and the screen is very nice. It is indeed my primary mobile XP gaming battlestation, and with its incredibly small size, I don't see that changing anytime soon. I absolutely love it!

The CPU could be better of course, but it's certainly enough to get the job done. Windows XP is quite snappy.

It's incredibly charming to have the entire eXPerience (yes) in such a tiny form factor. I highly recommend you go out and get one. They're not perfect, some OA maps lag with flares and bloom turned on and the CPU could be a bit better, but that's all forgivable seeing how tiny it is. What is your portable XP battlestation?

P.S. I don't have Ethernet on this thing. It has the nForce 730i chipset. Does anyone know where to get XP drivers for this?

Ultrax
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Deskpro XE 450|DX2-50|32 MB|NT4.0/95
SR2038X|Athlon 64 X2 3800|2G|GT710 WINXP
Dimension 4400|P4 NW 2 GHz|256M|R128U AGP|WINXP
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Reply 1 of 5, by oeuvre

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should have your ethernet driver here https://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce-winxp-15.56-driver.html

HP Z420 Workstation Intel Xeon E5-1620, 32GB, RADEON HD7850 2GB, SSD + HD, XP/7
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Reply 2 of 5, by Ultrax

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oeuvre wrote:

THANK YOU! I searched and searched but could only find the Vista version, strange. Works great.

Ultrax
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Presario 425|DX2-50|8MB|SB V16S|D622/WFW3.11 😎
Deskpro XE 450|DX2-50|32 MB|NT4.0/95
SR2038X|Athlon 64 X2 3800|2G|GT710 WINXP
Dimension 4400|P4 NW 2 GHz|256M|R128U AGP|WINXP
HPMini311|N270|2G|9400M|WINXP
Libretto50CT|P75|16MB|YMF711|WIN95 😎

Reply 4 of 5, by Almoststew1990

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Man I loved those ION things when they came out. I didn't have one but I wanted one so bad as they were "rediculously" powerful for their size and time.

These days I really want an Alienware M11x (I think they're called). They are from 2009 or so. Proper graphics with a C2D CPU in an 11" frame!

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I have a vacancy for a main Windows 98 PC

Reply 5 of 5, by Ultrax

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Almoststew1990 wrote:

Man I loved those ION things when they came out. I didn't have one but I wanted one so bad as they were "rediculously" powerful for their size and time.

These days I really want an Alienware M11x (I think they're called). They are from 2009 or so. Proper graphics with a C2D CPU in an 11" frame!

The M11x seems really neat! Those might be better for early 7 gaming as I heard they don't play nicely with XP. They're still awesome though, and it's a shame they stopped making them since like all gaming laptops nowadays have screens bigger than Texas. Which is cool at first but then you realize that gaming laptops are meant to be portable.

Ultrax
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Presario 425|DX2-50|8MB|SB V16S|D622/WFW3.11 😎
Deskpro XE 450|DX2-50|32 MB|NT4.0/95
SR2038X|Athlon 64 X2 3800|2G|GT710 WINXP
Dimension 4400|P4 NW 2 GHz|256M|R128U AGP|WINXP
HPMini311|N270|2G|9400M|WINXP
Libretto50CT|P75|16MB|YMF711|WIN95 😎