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Dell Inspiron Mini 12 Arrives: Sleek but Slow
Dell Inspiron Mini 12 Arrives: Sleek but Slow
This morning the stork dropped off one of the most highly-anticipated netbooks of the year. Everyone wanted to see and touch the Inspiron Mini 12 because it’s the first netbook with a 12-inch display. How good was the keyboard? How bright was the display? How fast did it boot? We have ...
Dell Lags in New Products
online.wsj.com — Michael Dell last year promised innovative new consumer products to generate "product lust" and spark his company's... turnaround effort. But in the runup to the holiday sales season, Dell Inc. has been slow to deliver on that promise. Dell has decided ... (more) Dell Lags in New Products
The Dell Online Store: Build Your System
The Dell Online Store: Build Your System
configure.us.dell.com — Skip to main content Chat with us or call: 1-877-294-3355 Choose A Country/Region English Search Dell |... About Dell To compare multiple configurations, click the review and continue tab below then click 'Add to Wish List'. Build My Dell Add My ... (more) The Dell Online Store: Build Your System
Dell Home Black Friday Ad and Dell.com Black Friday Deals for 2008
blackfriday.info — Dell Home offers a comprehensive portfolio of electronics, computers, and home entertainment devices directly to customers. You... have a large selection of configurable and upgradable desktop PCs and laptop PCs along with an extension selection of ... (more) Dell Home Black Friday Ad and Dell.com Black Friday ...
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Can a 12 inch laptop be a netbook?
Liliputing — ... This is why I’ve never been a fan of the word netbook. Call them Liliputers; call them cheap subnotebooks; call them what you will. But the computers I’ve been most interested in for the last year or two have weighed about 3 pounds or less, had 10 inch or smaller screens, and cost around $500 or less.  ...

Dell netbook with MID CPU gets a first look: Mini 12
jkOnTheRun — ... LAPTOP Magazine has a first look at the full-figured Dell Mini 12 netbook and promises a full review once they get some play time. They like the larger 12-inch display with 1280x800 resolution but already see some sluggishness in the system, quoting two minutes for a Vista bootup and a full four minutes before all startup programs were ready. Part of that issue could be the fact that the Mini 12 pairs Windows Vista with a slower 4200 RPM hard drive and the device maximum of 1GB of RAM, but that's just my educated guess. ...

Dell mini 12 is slow?
I4U News — ... they just received. The Dell mini 12 looks great but apparently lacks performance. Running Windows Vista on a Atom Z530 CPU is maybe not a good idea after all. Apparently it takes over 2 minutes to get the Vista desktop and over 4 minutes before all of the preinstalled programs, including the Dell Dock, loaded. Hello? Where is the next trashcan to through this netbook in? Dell, install XP or Linux to fix this now before rolling out the Dell mini 12. More details and video on Laptop Mag . Posted on Fri, 7 Nov 2008 09:20:15 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr ...

Laptop Magazine fondles the Dell Mini 12 netbook
CrunchGear — ... Laptop got an early hands-on with Dell’s 12-inch Mini 12 netbook and found it to be a bit sluggish, with two-minute long boot times and four whole minutes before all the preloaded software got its act together. That’s fair, but I have no idea what Dell was thinking sending out a netbook with 1GB of RAM and Vista Home Basic, plus a pre-installed anti-virus program. I mean, what did they think was gonna happen? ...

Dell Inspiron Mini 12 Netbook
D' Technology Weblog — ... even when cranked up to full brightness. The Dell Mini 12 is also differentiates itself from other netbooks by not packing the usual 1.6-GHz Intel Atom N270 processor. Instead our configuration has a 1.6GHz  Atom Z530 Silverthorne-class processor. The processor, along with 1GB of RAM (which is not upgradeable) power the Microsoft Windows Vista basic Mini 12.  For storage, it has a 1.8-inch 60GB hard drive operating at a sluggish 4,200 rpm over a PATA interface. Full Article ...

More Looks, Less Performance: Dell Inspiron Mini 12 Netbook
High Tech Lounge — ... all the preinstalled programs, including the Dell Dock, loaded.” If you do get the Mini 12, you’ll want to make some massive tweaks to try and pull a little more pep out of this netbook. This just goes to show that Vista and Atom just don’t mix, especially when you only have one gig of RAM to run the show. On the bright side, the keyboard is great, the touchpad is roomy, and the 1280 x 800 glossy screen is vivid. More Looks, Less Performance: Dell Inspiron Mini 12 Netbook Source: blog.laptopmag.com ...

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