Dell launches Inspiron Mini 10
By Darren Murph 
posted Jan 9th 2009 10:52AM
posted Jan 9th 2009 10:52AM
posted Jan 9th 2009 10:52AM
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Touchscreen?
Multi-touch pad... I don't see anything about a touch screen. I wish I were wrong though. A touch screen on a netbook would be pretty sweet.
This thing will be so light that when you press something on the touch screen it will lift up or fall over, unless its a "netvertible" then theres not alot of practicality in a touchscreen.
Awesome!!
makes the mini 9 look even crappier. really glad i jumped on that when it first came out
I 2nd that...
I was about to buy a Mini 9 these days... guess i'll have to wait.
Re: Touchscreen? That would be super sweet and persuade me....
i think the tv tuner persuaded me, probably my next purchase
any link for details? it sounds like they are doing everything right... is it too good to be true?
I 2nd that...
Hope that's not a real picture of the screen because that is not really edge to edge!
That's what I was thinking, it seems they're adopting apple's precedent of calling their screen 'edge to edge' just because the glass like stuff that covers the actual pixely part goes to the very edge.
Damn marketing terms!
@GenBanks:
That may have been the most enlightening piece technical jargon I've heard all week...
Hmmm... I could have sworn there was an "of" in there.......... oh well.
A TV tuner on a 10" screen.... Awesome.
They need to have a 6-cell version and maybe 2gb RAM (or make it easily upgradeable) and price it at about $400, otherwise people would just go for the Mini 12.
Can't upgrade to 2GB RAM because the chipset limits it to 1GB like in the Mini12. Uses GMA500 instead of GMA950 so no hackintosh either.
That limit has been lifted to 2GB for some time now. Dell just doesn't want to spend the R&D to upgrade the Mini 12 to 2GB.
Actually the issue with going 2gb is Microsoft then wouldn't let you use XP (at 2gb they say it doesn't qualify as a netbook)
@ jon
Well there has been OSX on the mini 9 for some time now.
here is a link (gizmodo, sorry engadget)
http://gizmodo.com/5058287/dell-inspiron-mini-9-now-running-os-x-leopard
My only concern (and it's minor) is that the TV tuner will require tons of HDD space and processing power, something this is likely not to have. Even so, this looks like the netbook to have.
TV tuners don't really require a lot of processing power or HD space unless you are recording or want a rewind buffer.
Assuming you can pick up HDTV over the air, those streams are just mpeg and decoding them shouldn't be hard.
If Dell farmed out the tuner to Pinnacle then, yes, it will need a lot of proc power, 50 gigs of ram and a roof mounted antenna mounted on the roof of the TV station.
Maybe my eyes are deceiving me, but that picture does not make the screen look "edge-to-edge"
Agreed, quite a bezel on that baby.
It's from the edge of the bezel to other edge of the bezel =P
I just surfed Dell.com site, not available at their website yet for Inspiron 10. Only got inspiron 12, 13 and 9. Just want to find out spec for it :)
http://www.guide2lcdtv.com
The keyboard is edge to edge. The screen has a large bezel.
Right?
Dell has really made a unit that includes almost everything you need in a netbook. Kudos to Dell. can't wait to see a review!!
Also, the picture from the back that he is holding does not look like 16:9
edge to edge keyboard.. not screen
You can see in the 2nd image, 1st bullet item "Edge-to-edge 16:9 HD 720P"
Hopefully it's not an analog tv tuner..haha.
OMG I almost spit coffee all over my Mini9 screen reading that comment!
What's the keyboard size on it? Is it bigger than the mini9?
Clearly. The right shift key is full sized. There are obviously function keys along the top, though they're certainly not "tall". And since its edge-to-edge and the screen is bigger and still has a fat bezel, the keyboard is clearly bigger...
I hoping for < $500 for MSRP.
I doubt it - this is pretty clearly a premium level netbook (Z530 CPU). Should beat the Sony though.
Giant bezel to giant bezel.
I am impressed by the screen though. Hope somebody else will use it soon.
It looks like a great package, if only they'd crammed a discrete graphics card in there (a la Asus N10 with its GeForce 9300M) as well so that I could confidently play a few non demanding or older games along the lines of Battlefield 2 or Eve Online during down time while traveling I'd be totally sold.
You want to game on a netbook? O_O
I already game on a netbook (civ, morrowind, AoE, etc). An 8.9 incher no less. And despite the fact that everywhere someone recommends better netbook graphics, 10 other people say "Wha?!?! Why?!", I'll never understand the objection.
I've gamed on wristwatches, organizers, tables, eyewear, phones (before most people knew you could, back in the days of single digit resolutions) and graphing calculators, so somehow, gaming on a full windows PC doesn't seem that odd. Put doom on a toaster, and I'd play it there too.
single digit pixel wha? I play Counterstrike on my mini 1000, runs pretty smoothly, just need to carry around a mouse. gameplay has hardly improved in the last 15 years, mostly the graphics have changed. PhysX is one of the few exceptions though. I haven't tried Q3 or UT2 on it yet, but I'd bet that they're playable on 800x600 mode with low settings.
Is this the same size as the Mini 9, dimension wise?
Yeah, if this has the nVidia Ion chipset, count me in.
Otherwise, I'm out until Ion hits.
Perfect! I'm glad I held off on buying an hp mini 1000. I just hope they offer it with linux, or at least hardware with linux support
Last summer when I bought my MSI wind it was the top dog of the netbook pack , now (even if it does a great job) is already almost obsolete.
Still it remains to be seen if the price is right, and if it will be more tempting than the new Vaio P, which at the moment is the most likely candidate to replace my trusty Wind.
I wander how much I could ask for a tricked up (2GBDDR", BT&WIFI, DTV-B120GB mem, etc.) 1 year old wind on e-bay; I'm afraid that if I'll wait much longer to sell it the hot tech of last summer will be the dead cow of next spring.
If only it had wacom tablet functionality... I'd be first in line. Why oh why is it so difficult for manufactures to just standardize on convertible tablet functionality for all laptop / netbook devices ?