[Ric]

Hope all of you are well.

[TwistyTravster]

Hey I'm new to this forum. I've had my Dell Mini 1012 for a couple of years. Its amazing that I never came to find this community. It seems though that I'm a bit late to the party.

[darknessblade]

most acive users of the golden mini ERA are dead.

i took over a mini 910 for 0$ from a friend.
it runs like a charm with win10 32bit

most topic that are relavent are still here.
so modding tuturials are for the picking
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odly enough there are around 1700 viewers of the website?
or its just someone without a static IP

[rrfranczak3]

Some of us 'OLD' Moderators still pop in every now and then.....

[darknessblade]

it might be a good idea then to merge all topics of 4 years ago that have no reply's

this way its easyer to navigate to the more relavant topics. by merging all "useless" topics

[gitarzan]

still putzing around with my 1012.
Have the higher res screen and an ssd installed.
Running oem XP after a try with Ubuntu. I did not like Ubuntu.
Just ordered w7 32bit by mistake. I wanted 64, so I decided to keep it and will be installing the 32 on the 1012.

My biggest beef on the 1012 is the touchpad, but there's no upgrade for that. Other than a mouse.

Still a cute little PC for as old as it is.

[TwistyTravster]

Originally Posted by gitarzan

still putzing around with my 1012.
Have the higher res screen and an ssd installed.
Running oem XP after a try with Ubuntu. I did not like Ubuntu.
Just ordered w7 32bit by mistake. I wanted 64, so I decided to keep it and will be installing the 32 on the 1012.

My biggest beef on the 1012 is the touchpad, but there's no upgrade for that. Other than a mouse.

Still a cute little PC for as old as it is.

I found that Windows 10 runs amazing on my Mini 1012, as long as you disable Windows Defender.

As for the touch pad, there are 2 options

1) http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/dell...ally-rock.html

2) If you look closely, the entire palm rest on the Mini 1018, including the bolt holes, looks identical to the 1012. So I figure you could easily just replace the whole part and it should work. The touchpad on the 1018 has separate buttons, which look like they would work a lot better.

Examples:
1012 - http://www.ebay.ca/itm/191167100964
1018 - http://www.ebay.ca/itm/321621391646

[darknessblade]

Originally Posted by TwistyTravster

I found that Windows 10 runs amazing on my Mini 1012, as long as you disable Windows Defender.

As for the touch pad, there are 2 options

1) http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/dell...ally-rock.html

2) If you look closely, the entire palm rest on the Mini 1018, including the bolt holes, looks identical to the 1012. So I figure you could easily just replace the whole part and it should work. The touchpad on the 1018 has separate buttons, which look like they would work a lot better.

Examples:
1012 - Genuine Dell Inspiron Mini 1012 Touchpad Palmrest VH07W | eBay
1018 - Dell Inspiron Mini 10 1018 Touchpad Palmrest Fkykk | eBay

as for a mouse just use this one:
http://g03.a.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1I6gtH...ball-mouse.jpg