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Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Now Official with Specs and Pricing

Posted 09/04/08 at 11:18:32 AM |  by Paul Lilly

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If you've been waiting for Dell to officially release its Mini 9 notebook line, your wait is now over. On the high end, a starting price of $449 buys a Mini Inspiron 910 with an Intel Atom N270 processor (1.6GHz, 533MHz frontside-bus, 512K cache), 1GB of DDR2 RAM clocked at 533MHz, a 16GB SSD, and other odds and ends tied together with Windows XP. Cut the hard drive and RAM in half and you can knock $50 off the price, or drop down to the Inspiron 910u for $349. It comes with the same goodies as the higher end models, except with a 4GB SSD, 512MB DDR2, and Ubuntu 8.04 instead of Windows XP.

For those willing to wait one more day, Dell's blog claims that as of 6 a.m. Central tomorrow, "you'll be able to get a Mini for only $99with the purchase of a Studio 15, XPS M1530, or XPS M1330 laptop through 6 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9 (U.S. only)."

Anyone feeling enticed?

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avataris it just me...

Submitted by N25PHILLY on Thu, 2008-09-04 14:29

or do 90% of the netbooks sound like they have the exact same hardware

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avatarHard drive is a deal breaker.

Submitted by dropslash on Thu, 2008-09-04 13:48

It's certainly enticing, that's for sure. I use a Dell XPS M1210 when i travel and while i love the size, for bumming around NYC I'd love to jump down to something even smaller as long as it can handle the basics. These Mini's look like a great option but i have to agree with skhills, the 16GB HD is a deal breaker. Doubling to just 32GB would probably be enough to put my finger on the trigger but as is, it's sadly not a real option.

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avatar16GB?

Submitted by skhills on Thu, 2008-09-04 10:24

I understand the benefits and power savings of a SSD, but if you can only give me 4-16GB at this price point I'll take a traditional hard drive, thanks. 

I'd pay the extra $50 for an MSI wind with 120GB.  I get that these nerbooks are designed for light tasks, but I'd at least like to be able to save some pictures and videos on a vacation on it.

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