Looks like we had a false alarm. Dell is indeed announcing 10 laptops today. But as far as I can tell, none of them is the Dell Inspiron Mini. Rather, the company is rolling out a new line of business-focused Latitude laptops.
There are a few exciting things here. Dell is promising battery life of up to19 hours. You get 9 hours from a standard 9 cell battery, and a “battery slice” add-on that gives you another 10 hours. Batteries can be charged to 80% in as little as an hour.
Interestingly, these laptops do carry the Dell E series name, which is the label we had earlier heard applied to the Inspiron Mini.
One of the laptops is a 12.1 inch ultramobile PC that weighs less than 1 kilogram and includes solid state memory. This may be the product that was once known as a “Dell E Slim.”
I’ll keep monitoring the press event to see if there’s any word about the Inspiron Mini, but I’m not holding my breath right now.
Update: It’s official. No netbooks today.
That 4200 doesn’t look too bad, but I’m sure it’ll be pricey.
Was really hoping the Mini E would come out soon – I’m in need of a <$1000 mini notebook with SSD and a non-gimpy right shift key (haven't been able to find any good pics of the mini e's shift) before September. Any suggestions?
I need a mini notebook for school August 25th! I was realllly hoping they would release it, or at least give us a date! I’m getting impatient and the eee 1000 is looking pretty good…
lenovo FTW.
Those are bad news; anyway, I do not really need it until end of september, otherwise I will go for an asus
I give up, ordering an eee 1000h tommrow.
I’m in the same boat as you. I need a new netbook and I was holding out for the Dell but I may get an Aspire or 1000H tomorrow depending on what happens with Dell’s press conference tomorrow:
https://sify.com/finance/fullstory.php?id=14738518
I’m guessing Dell with just talk about the new Latitudes, but he might give up the E, we’ll have to wait and see.
I got the same problem, I need a netbook before september 25th. And there is not one totally convincing me.
so disappointed