The Dell Inspiron Mini 9 is presently the most compatible with Leopard out of all the netbooks. The difference between Dell Inspiron mini 9 and the other laptops from it’s kind is: more configurable than other Netbooks, good battery life, XP and Linux OS options.
Now the bad part about this netbook: some awkward keyboard compromises like the typing keys are bigger and because of that the tab key and caps lock are smaller, there are no functional keys and no SSD options larger than 16GB.
Anyway, for a 9″ screened computer which weighs in at around 2.5 pounds, this thing is pretty snappy, pretty cool, and actually usable. The keyboard, as I’m sure you can imagine, is a bit on the small side for my pudgy fingers, but it’s certainly faster/better than trying to legitimately surf on my iPhone.
So, with the plethora of netbooks out there, why did I choose the Dell Inpiration Mini 9? There were certainly larger (10″), faster notebooks out there with real 160gb hard drives, but for me, it boiled down to two things:
Price — No one seemed to be able to get near the $245 price tag, unless you counted the president’s day sale direct from Dell, but that one had Ubuntu on it which — in this case — doesn’t really matter when my hopes are finalized (more on that shortly).
Expandability — Unlike the more popular Acer, EeePC or other netbooks (that I could find), the Dell actually encourages expansion by putting a big door on the bottom of the machine which allows easy access to add more memory, bigger SSD storage, bluetooth card, and even a WWAN (3G) card if you’d like. I already ordered a 2gb RAM stick and 32gb SSD from crucial.com and will probably order 2 more in order to be able to easily jump between operating systems such as Ubuntu, XP, and even maybe, just maybe MacOS X if I get REALLY curious.
Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Specification:
Processors Intel® AtomTM Processor (1.6GHz, 512KB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB)
Operating System Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition SP3
Ubuntu Linux 8.04 with custom Dell interface
Memory 1GB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Chipset Intel® 945PM / GS Express Chipset
Graphics Intel® Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator 950
LCD Display Glossy 8.9 inch LED display (1024X600)
Hard Drives Up to 16GB configured with a Solid State drive.
Optical Drives No optical drive available.
Ports USB 2.0 (3)
Integrated 10/100 LAN (RJ45)
15-pin VGA video connector
Audio jacks (1-line out, 1 mic-in)
3-in-1 Media Card Reader
AC adapter connector
Power 4-cell 32WHr Li-Ion Battery
Camera Integrated 1.3MP webcam
Wireless 802.11g mini-card
Bluetooth® Internal (2.0) mini-card
Dimensions & Weight
Width: 9.13" (232mm)
Height: 1.07" (27.2mm) front / 1.25" (31.7mm) back
Depth: 6.77" (172mm)
Weight: Starting weight of 2.28 lbs. (1.035 kg)1(8.9" display, 4 cell Inspiron Mini 9 battery). Weights will vary depending on configurations and manufacturing variability.
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