Dell Netbook, At Last!
The great hope of all of those longing to see Netbooks brought back down to their original low-priced roots, the Dell Inspiron Mini 9, has finally arrived in both the US and Europe. According to Dell’s website, it has all the specs, features, flavors and price-points that were leaked, oh, how long was it, three years ago or so? Never let it be said Dell rushes a product to market. Late for the back to School rush, but just in time for Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Winter Solstice….and definitely one of the sharper looking Netbooks on offer.
As promised, the low end Ubuntu model comes in at 349 dollars, with an 8.9 screen, 4G SSD, Atom CPU etcetera, etcetera. Higher end machines, with XP and 8G SSDs come in at $449. Thank the Lords they dropped that silly E name. All we would have needed for total Circuit City meltdown would have been for some other vendor to produce an Ee netbook.
“So, let me show you our Netbook options. We have the Es, some very nice Ees, a whole mess of Eees,,perhaps an E XL, or and Eee 3200EXE or an Ee E400WE. Will you want that with an Atom chip, or an Ato? Perhaps a Tom?”
The advance reviews have been good, the specs are co,perable with the middle/low end of the netbook market, and the price point is quite reasonable and looks really good up against the Winds and Eees. With reports that both the HP Mininote and the Acer Aspire One have been selling very well but under the radar of many consumers, I have great hopes for this machine. The Netbook niche has needed a new “Must Have” model since Asus lost the crown by going insane (The Eee Monitor? What the devil do they put in the water in Taiwan?) I only wish they hadn’t called it the Inspiron Mini, but the Axim Maxi. Ah well.
So what do you think, is Dell going to be this years Asus in the Netbook/UMPC market after all?
(Source – Engadget)
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Intel will be hard pressed to make enough atom processors to keep up with worldwide demand, opening the door to other companies to compete with the Atom.
The Dell Inspiron Mini 9(DIM9) won’t be as popular this year as the Asus was this past year. With 60 companies using the atom processor, the competition will be fierce, and the profit margins very tight. The key for Dell was to dive into the fray. Dell’s future plans, which may include mixing it up with the telcos, may be much more revolutionary. Stay tuned.
Really looks like a nice machine although on the dell website it is not possible to customise this machine. No doubt this will be possible within the next few months the only question now is do we wait or do we buy now!