Comments on: Dell Inspiron Mini gets new name, higher price

By: wolf

wolf — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:03:02 +0000

it's tiny

By: wolf

wolf — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:03:02 +0000

it's tiny

By: wolf

wolf — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:03:02 +0000

it's tiny

By: richard d

richard d — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:44:41 +0000

Completely agree. I eagerly awaited through the faked (I think by Dell) leaks and dates and even participated in the Dell blog. even though I never thought much of the company.

I've had my Aspire One 6 cell for a couple weeks now and couldn't be happier. 4 cell battery, smaller keyboard, TINY drive, 512 mem, no webcam, no extra ssd slot…..Yikes!! I honestly think you'd have to be a huge Dell fanboy to buy this if you are aware of the alternatives.

I was worried already looking at pics and specs that were leaked. Screwed up keyboard (misaligned top row, no function keys, keyboard not even to the edge of very small machine), extreme glossy surface, ssd drives only (WHY??? beyond trendiness…why do people want these things? Yes, I know, the one advantage, more likely to survive a fall…..what about the rest of the laptop? It is best NOT to drop it! lol).

By: Goobersnotch

Goobersnotch — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:06:06 +0000

I went with the Dell even knowing that the Aspire is cheaper, simply because of an employee discount coupon (17%) and because the touchpad buttons are at the bottom instead of on the sides, which is a deal breaker for me. Having tried out an Aspire at a store, I can honestly say I was not impressed with it (having your thumb on the touchpad left button while controlling the touchpad was difficult to say the least) and I hated how uncustomizable the Linux Linspire OS is. I ordered the Dell with XP but I am going to put Ubuntu on it as soon as the image is available for DL from Dell's support site.

For $430 I got the 16 gig SSD (HDD space is not an issue for me especially once I put Ubuntu on there, and I have plenty of external HDDs, flash drives, memory cards, and networked storage to store data on), 1 gig of RAM, 1.3 webcam, and bluetooth. If I did not opt for the webcam or bluetooth, the price would have been just under $400. That beats out the Aspire deal (save for hard drive space and lack of a 2nd memory card slot).

Granted, I have an employee advantage, but what can you do. I was simply not impressed with the Aspire and I had no reason to not get the Dell.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:32:56 +0000

On Dell UK site

£299 ($529)
XP with 16GB SSD

Is there really only one speaker with this? (UK site info)

By: James Schend

James Schend — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:25:48 +0000

I just went through all the sources on Acer's website, and you're right, NONE of them sell the Aspire One 1447 model. Orson (in the thread above) seems to have one; where did you buy it? How did you get it?

After looking at this Dell and other options, I'd like to get the Aspire One 1447, if it's actually available anywhere. (Why doesn't Acer sell direct from their website?)

By: nickc321

nickc321 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:17:00 +0000

I know its a 'netbook' but 8gb not going to do it for me…

By: Speedmaster

Speedmaster — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:27:02 +0000

Hmmm. I would love to get the 1GB version w/ Ubuntu, and not pay for XP.

By: Speedmaster

Speedmaster — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:07:49 +0000

Hmmm. I would love to get the 1GB version w/ Ubuntu, and not pay for XP.

By: Стали известны цены на нетбук от Dell | аналоги | Eee-PC.ru

Стали известны цены на нетбук от Dell | аналоги | Eee-PC.ru — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:05:48 +0000

[...] от Dell вновь поменял название. Ныне устройство называется Dell Inspiron Mini 9 и вопреки [...]

By: PrincessNybor

PrincessNybor — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:53:44 +0000

Since I bought my pretty blue Acer Aspire One with 120 gig hard drive and 1 gig memory for $349, I can't see how Dell plans to compete with Acer. But then again, looking at the prices of current MSI and Asus netbooks, I can't see how anyone plans to compete with Acer!

By: richard mullens

richard mullens — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:53:06 +0000

Dell chat session:
Is the Inspiron Mini 9 available with Linux in the UK ? Where is the webpage ?
we do not have that option available as of now.
in Europe ? When – if you know ?
we do not have any information yet.

By: caldude

caldude — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:06:58 +0000

Dell is overpriced crap. It makes computers for people who don't really know how to use computers or don't know much about computers.

By: seta666

seta666 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:03:39 +0000

Buff, I heve been waiting for this 3 months, to find out that a decent one will cost 400€ (1$=1€ ), and it will come to Spain in October because of the Ñ.
Now eee 901 350€ ( 508$) and eee 1000h 415€ (600$) both with 6 cell battery, if nothing changes I will go for one of these 2, I need it by the end of month