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As most of you know by now, Dell launched the Inspiron Mini 9 netbook yesterday. Jkk has come across the service manual for the unit on Dell’s site. The manual shows some good internal pictures and there is a lot of talking in the blogosphere right now about how easy it could be to upgrade the unit’s hardware (never a bad thing).
Vicente, a UMPC Portal reader, wants to know whether the SSD in the Mini 9 has 100% high speed flash storage, or if they will pull and Eee and have a small part of the storage be high speed, but the majority of it much slower. I asked netbook guru jkk if he had any insight, and he says it isn’t clear yet. Apparently some of the review units that made their way to some of the larger tech sites don’t all have the same SSD. No one is sure exactly which will ship with the unit so it seems as though we’ll have to wait and see.
September 5th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
it is sure that there is only one drive, but if it’s fast or not we will know soon..
September 6th, 2008 at 1:41 am
Maybe its just me, but I am less excited. The fact that there is no room for an HDD nor additional RAM turns me off. I know the intended purpose for most people, but I need the extra storage for photos while I am in the field. I like the Everun more and if I cannot get that, then even the MSI Wind I believe has more possibilities. I Believe this is a FAIL on Dells part
September 6th, 2008 at 7:15 am
I haven’t seen anything about using USB2 memory for Ram. Has anyone seen anything about that?
Of course you can use the USB2 for storage along with the picture card port.
And one thing bears repeating. Dell constantly lowers it prices, either the dollar amount, or the value giving for a certain dollar amount, and sometimes both.
Plus it has sales.
So you can expect the cheaper 350USD model to be 300USD in a few months, on sale, or the 350USD with some added value, say 1G memory, or a larger SSD for 350USD. Or the better camera, and so on.
I would bet money on that.
September 6th, 2008 at 8:12 am
And Merrily away we go!
From InformationWeek-
“Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) plans to sell late this month in Europe Dell’s new mini-notebook with built-in mobile broadband, the company said Friday.”
September 6th, 2008 at 8:16 am
I tried to put a url in but had difficulty.
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September 6th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
This is good, it allows you to play with it without much hassle
September 6th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Well, I just opened an an email from Dell telling me that my “New Best Friend” the Dell Mini 9 was here.
But no sales yet.
September 6th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
be nice to know if we can just drop in a pci hsdpa modem ourselves
September 10th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
They have free next-day shipping for mini9 late last week. Then They charged $18 for it. Now it costs $69 and Dell decreases the instant saving from $40 to $25 for the XP version. I wonder if the price would be less expensive in the near future…
October 2nd, 2008 at 11:17 am
SO far all these netbooks aka UMPC, are really lame. I’ve tried the following ones:
Eee 900 == SSD way to and is unusable
HP 2133 MiniNot == For the first hour thought my prayers were answered. Until I found out the thing gets hot enough to give a mild but painful burn on human flesh (that is from experience).
The best one I’ve come across yet is the Eee 1000 with a 1.6ghz Atom. Problem: is kinda hybrid cheap laptop and UMPC!