Solid State Disk maker RunCore has released a new line of 50mm mini-SATA PCIe SSDs for the Asus Eee PC T91 and Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbooks. Both versions are part of the RunCore Pro IV Light line and are designed for netbooks with mini PCIe slots rather than hard drives. In a nutshell, these SSDs offer faster read and…

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Every now and again someone will ask me whether one netbook or another has a backlit keyboard. No. Pretty much no matter which netbook you’re talking about, the answer is no, it does not have a backlit keyboard. Netbooks are, by definition, cheap laptops. And that’s a premium feature that you’re not likely to find in a cheap laptop anytime…

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Anxious to get your hands on Microsoft’s upcoming Courier tablet, but don’t feel like waiting for Microsoft to actually release it? MyDellMini forum member pakkei feels your pain. But instead of sitting on his butt, he decided to do something about it and built his own Courier-like device. Basically, he took apart a Dell Inspiron Mini 9, added a touchscreen…

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People have been ripping apart netbooks and turning them into tablets by adding a touchscreen and removing or hiding the keyboard for almost as long as netbooks have been available. But MyDellMini forum member rock99rock may have put together the most exciting netbook tablet hack that I’ve seen to date. That’s because not only did he convert his Dell Inspiron…

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The Dell Inspiron Mini 9 may have been (mostly) discontinued, but the 8.9 inch netbook is still popular with hackers and folks that want to install OS X on a netbook. I was never a big fan of the keyboard on the Mini 9. For one thing it lacks Fn keys. But you know when that’s not a problem? When…

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Sure, Dell has an on-again, off-again love affair with the Inspiron Mini 9. The company has announced the discontinuation of the product at least once or twice, even though the 9 inch netbook has a way of continually popping up in the Dell store. But whether you’ll be able to buy a new Mini 9 next month or not, there…

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Dell seems to have some sort of love/hate relationship with the Inspiron Mini 9. After phasing out the 8.9 inch netbook a few months ago, the company brought the mini-computer back for a 4-day sale last month, and promised/threatened that this would be the last time the Mini 9 would be available. But it turns out Dell had a change…

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The Dell Inspiron Mini 9 may have had a funky keyboard without any Fn keys, but some folks really preferred this 9 inch netbook to the 10 inch models that replaced it. And so it was kind of a sad day when Dell unceremoniously pulled the Mini 9 from its netbook lineup. The move came a little sooner than Dell…

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There are plenty of ways to keep the data on your computer secure. You could add a password to the login screen, encrypt the data on your hard drive, or carry your computer around in a briefcase handcuffed to your wrist and hope that nobody with a hacksaw is coming to get you. Or you could pick up a laptop…

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Dell may be preparing to phase out the Inspiron Mini 12. The Mini 12 was arguably the first mini-notebook to blur the line between a netbook and full sized notebook. Like a typical netbook, it sports a low power Intel Atom CPU and a low price tag. But it has a 12 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display making it…

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[/caption] If you were still holding onto hope that you mights be able to pick up a 9 inch Dell Inspiron Mini laptop, it looks like you’re out of luck. As I mentioned the other day, Dell has removed the Inspiron Mini 9 from its web site. And today Dell is sending out a note to web publishers that had…

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Dell appears to have removed its 8.9 inch netbook from its web site. Well, mostly. If you visit the Dell Mini site today you’ll only find information about the Dell Inspiron Mini 10 and Inspiron Mini 10v. You can still click on Mini 9 from a drop-down menu, but you’ll be taken to a page filled with information about… the…

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