Service Manual

Im due to pick up a 2gb ram upgrade next week. Here is the service manual I will be following:

http://support.euro.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins910/en/sm/index.htm

Thin Client PC

Today I used the mini-9 as my work desktop. I plugged it into a 22" monitor and then connected to my terminal server. It worked great.

External Monitor 1680 * 1050 Naitive Res

I just got a brand new viewsonic 22" monitor with a naitive display of 1680 * 1050. Connected the mini-9 and crossed my fingers. Guess what? It worked! naitive res without a problem and you wouldnt know it was a mini notebook powering this. This leads to many possibilities.

Save Battery Life

Get into the habbit of closing the lid when you are not using it, this puts the mini-9 to sleep right away. When you open the lid vista restores from sleep by the time the lid is opened fully.

Missing Device Driver

I am yet to find what device is missing in my mini-9 Vista build

Freeze State with SteadyState

I have put on Microsoft SteadyState as my mini-9, I like the idea of rebooting and getting back to a state I configured and am happy with. When I restart all my files, changes are removed perfect for a netbook. Give it a try.

Save Space

Turn off Volume Shadow Copy, sure you will lose restore capability but its only a 15gb HD, a full backup dosent even take long. It has saved about 3gb and brought my install size to under 5gb with vista SP1 and drivers installed.

Here is a good article showing you how do turn off shadow copy

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/07/01/disable-and-turn-off-system-restore-shadow-copy-in-windows-vista/