Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Launched Comments

Any chance of a head to head of all these blimmin things when they finally come out?

Certainly interested in one for the family (& then I can reclaim my Sony SZ1 from the missus!)

P.S. In noticed PC World (the magazine not the poor excuse for a store IMHO) attempted (badly) to do this recently but mixed up a bunch of Notebooks & Netbooks; unsuprisingly one of the Notebooks 'won' because it was much more powerful than the ohers - well yeah - doh!

So it's got a short battery life, a fingerprinted chassis, a glossy display and a high price. It'll have to be extremely impressive in the flesh to make up for that.

I asked the dell salesperson and they said the battery will last about 2-2.5 hours, i know this will be an issue for some users. It does look nice.

2-2.5 hours really? I would've expected more considering it has a 4 cell battery (almost all other netbooks come with 3 cell) and since most other netbook batteries last 2.5-3 hours on 3 cells I'd have expected this to last longer then 3 hours.

i walked into currys digital and looked at a dell inspiron... it had a dell studio 15 inch style body and lid, but had different keys and a normal looking trackpad. it said "inspiron" on the actual chassis, just below the screen, above the keyboard. is it just me?

Wonder how is compares to a 3 year old Dell Lattitude D610. Which is Centrino 1.6ghz and also has 1gb ram.

The main differences seem to be bluetooth (dell and wind/advent) and battery life.

I think that bluetooth is essential given the type of use, but with those mini usb transmitters its then only down to how well supported in linux they are.

Dell missed a trick here though, if they had offered the customiability that they normally do, I think they would be on to a winner.

cjb110: The eee 901 and HP MiniNote also both have bluetooth.

Peter: Well the atom is roughly comparable to the Celeron used in the eee 900 which is a Pentium M based one at 900Mhz so it's likely to be slower than a Centrino Pentium M 1.6Ghz

Juxtah: They're probably four small cells, the capacity of the battery is fairly small. The eee 900 three cell battery for example uses a 4400mAh@9.5v battery which gives 41.8Whr, compared to the 32Whr battery of the dell.

rather have an iphone :-)