Now here’s a bargain for your Christmas shopping. That is, of course, if you haven’t already bought the item in question. Laptoping has word that the regular price for the HP Mini 1000 has been slashed, as of yesterday, by $50 according to an email distribution by Hewlett-Packard. This means you can now grab a brand spankin’ new Mini 1000 for $359.99 before Christmas.

The Mini 1000, which hasn’t even been out long, has already grabbed plenty of attention for being an affordable netbook that runs very well, and just days ago saw a special Vivienne Tan Edition and mobile broadband option added.

The basic 8.9-inch Mini 1000 comes packed with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor, 1GB of RAM, an 8GB SSD, a 3-cell battery, and Windows XP.