January 26, 2009 – 9:43 am
We reported last Thursday that Tesco, a big retail chain in the UK, had priced the new Dell Mini 10 at £349. Well, it looks like they made a mistake, as it was in fact the Mini 9 they were selling, but had made a mistake in misprinting it.
The previous product page is now gone, [...]
January 16, 2009 – 6:36 pm
Dell has cut the base price on its Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbook by a whole $50, pushing the cost down to a very reasonable $299 (hat tip: Liliputing).
Of course, this is very much the “bare bones” Mini 9, right down to the Obsidian Black color, with other flavors adding as much as $50 on [...]
January 13, 2009 – 7:13 pm
Dell has officially released the A04 BIOS for its Dell Mini 9 netbook.
The update features a number of fixes, most notably a serious problem of Windows XP loading with the wrong resolution, along with a problem that caused some batteries to report incorrect cell capacities. The Critical Battery Alarm can now also go below 7% [...]
January 7, 2009 – 6:55 pm
Dell is now offering both a 64GB SSD and 2GB of RAM option as part of its online system configuration for the Mini 9. The catch? It is only available if you the Ubuntu Linux OS because of Microsoft’s restrictions allowing XP to ship only on netbooks with 1GB or less of RAM and a [...]
November 24, 2008 – 5:22 pm
As if Dell’s Mini 9 wasn’t already good value for money, they have now doubled the solid-storage drive (SSD) capacity available with a new 32GB option. Previously they offered the base model with a 4GB SSD, then options for 8GB (+$35) and 16GB (+$75). Okay, so when you look at the 16GB price, the logical [...]
