Dell Mini 9 Reviews

Now you can get a Dell Mini 9 with 32GB Solid State Drive option for a great deal of $100. This is pretty interesting and convincing to laptop geeks, to go for the Mini 9 instead of other notebooks

Though netbooks were born diminuitive 7-inch machines, consumers and manufacturers quickly found that larger screens were preferable. Nowadays you can find

Small and portable ; Firmly designed ; Synaptics touchpad is responsive ; Easily upgradeable ; Nearly silent ; Under $400 on Amazon ; Runs for almost 4 hrs

Gets very hot ; Only 8-16 GB of storage space ; Glossy screen causes glare and attracts fingerprints ; Strangely placed Function keys ; Lack of F11 or F1 ; No 6-cell battery

The Dell Mini 9 is fun, but suffers from a few flaws that keep it firmly in an earlier generation of netbooks. It seeks a balance between the bare-bones style of the earliest netbooks and feature-packed modern netbooks like the Eee PC 1000HE. ...

Upon starting this Dell Mini 9 netbook up and once it's booted to Windows XP, what strikes you then is how sluggish it feels to actually use - even once you've removed the usual pre-installed and (unnecessary) software that you almost expect to find ...