Dell Inspiron Mini 9 first look

We've known for some time that Dell was working on a Netbook-style laptop--the same kind of small, low-power, inexpensive system made popular by Asus and the Eee PC line. And even though there are not many surprises in the new Inspiron Mini 9, it's still an excellent example of the form, without any of the deal-breakers (older CPU, not enough storage space, hard-to-use touch pad) that have kept other Netbooks from being more universally useful.

While component-wise, the Mini 9 is similar to other recent Netbooks, such as the Eee PC 901 and the Acer Aspire One(which all use Intel's Atom CPU), in typical Dell fashion, there are more customization options than we've seen other Netbooks.

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[socoolbob]

TechAssist101DotCom has a couple of these for sale NOW!

[Sam111111]

The Dell Mini, though, is quiet, from what I've hard. I'm selling my 8 gig SSD+512 MB AM Aspire One and bought a Mini for $172. Upgrading the RAM only costs $20. :D

[8394147]

Yeah, but you can get this Dell for as low is $200 on sale. I haven't seen the Acer Aspire One under $300. If you don't want to spend a lot, this seems like the cheapest route... from what I can tell. I'm no expert, though. I just ordered the Mini 9 for $200. I'm going to add 2 GB RAM on my own since it looks real easy to do, something you can't do with the Aspire One. But the one I got is only 8GB SSD... certainly can't compete with 120 GB HDD.

[mysterysparks]

Dell mini is so over priced and there design is very cheap looking, the keyboard is the worst feature, they also have very small hard drives. my opinion is that dell only released these to compete with acer aspire ones and took very little time and effort doing it. If theres a choice, and your thinking of buying one, go with an acer aspire one. if you want XP go with the a150x verson, it has 120gb hd. ;~)

[markoresko]

I concur that Moving F* keys to Fn+something

Is SO stupit. Instead of having Fn+F1-F10 like on Asus. Dell compromised keyboard usability.

It would be better to make it a bit bigger

instead of sacrificing standard AT keyboard.

I am actually done with buying computers that have Windows on it,even if it is Xandros.

Ubuntu is a good way, but I would like to see

lowering price on the higher-spec Computer without using that Windblows thing..

[12345guvnor12345]

doing that to the f-keys is rely stupid i agree with u

[Diedrupo]

wtf are you talking about? You can put Ubuntu on the highest specced Dell. Next time do some research before spewing lies.

[z08y]

Remapping the F-keys like that is just plain stupid.

[z08y]

Do you actually have a life?

[Keruaran]

Let me guess... Dell are doing exactly what Acer have done. Put Ubuntu on the low specced crippled netbook and XP on the better nicer one that people are much more likely to actually want. And you can't choose to have Linux on the higher specced netbook.

Exactly what Acer did.

Message to Dell, Acer, and Asus from a Linux user: Stop wasting my time insulting my intelligence while you prostitute yourselves to Microsoft.

You've completely missed it.

You have no balls.

You fail.