To the author of the article: Are you sure that's suppose to be pounds and not dollars? If it was in dollars it would make perfect sense being in ratio with the costs of the current Inspiron 9,14, and 15 US pricing.

Do your homework "sotr". This atom has the same performance as the old atom. Further, the chipset will restrict it to 1gb no matter what. This is actually LESS powerful than other netbooks and it's trying to use Vista. This is only one of a number of design flaws. WHO would buy this joke?

The Mini 12 is using the Silverthorne and not the Diamondville like the 9. While both are Atoms (WTF Intel).. it's essentially 2 different processor and chipset.
That's why there's a Vista version.

£500 -£600? 

Atom cpu and Vista?

Bwhaaaaaaahaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaa.

Internally the Inspiron Mini 12 is very similar to its smaller relations – it features an Atom processor, and 60-80GB hard drive.

Well lets see the largest drive you can get in the mini9 is a SSD16gig harddrive and the drive in the new Mini12 is a SATA 60-80 gig Drive! BIG DIFFERENCE!

spending £600 on this, when you can get a HP TX system with much better spec and a 12.1" touchscreen for the same money?

Price??? lol !!! are they totaly out of their mind? Get a Samsung q45 12" for less and this is a real notebook