Dell discontinues its first netbook
PC HARDWARE vendor Dell has killed off its first netbook model.
The catchily titled Inspiron Mini 9 made its first appearance in September 2008 for $349. It was the first netbook with built-in mobile broadband from a major wireless carrier, Vodafone.
Since then Dell has expanded its Mini range and made the little boxes a bit nicer looking, more personalised and a darn sight cheaper.
Dell is hoping that punters will buy its Mini 10v now instead, which retails for $299 and has a 10-inch display and a bigger keyboard as well as more data storage space and options.
Writing in his bog, CEO Michael Dell said that if you bought a Mini 9 he hopes it is working out for you. He could have added, "pity you didn't wait until we had sorted out this netbook lark." µ
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The Mini 9 is a great little netbook, sorry to see it go. Possibly the best netbook candidate for running Mac OS X Leopard.
Own a 9" Dell Mini and it is great as a backup unit, the 10" is definitively a big improvement. But, already burned a motherboard updating the Bios, so I question the reliability of those "cheap" computers.
Dell loves to use proprietary crap, especially BIOS just like all the rest of them. One smart poster from this site explained about BIOS that is compiled using Microsoft's ASL compiler that does not comply with ACPI. This is done on purpose to try and lock out Linux and these vendors know this. Dell's newest 13" laptop uses this crap, I know I spent 45 minutes on the phone with there tech department as a pre-sales question.
I Microbloat up to dirty tricks like usual, yes. Look at the open document standard fiasco from last year.
Well Jose Penabaz, I've been using PC's and haxoring them for years (since 1992) and I have never, ever "Burned" a motherboard before and this is the first time I've ever heard of this. Did you not mean corrupted your firmware?
Maybe I'm being too technical here but burned a motherboard???
I've updated firmwares on all sorts of things, routers, motherboards, video cards, webcams, sound cards, and I'm sure a few other things that I can't think of right now and have only failed one update. Asus K7V motherboard because of a setting in the BIOS (byte merge) which was a known errata (but I only found out after corrupting the update unfortunately).
Let me know if the mobo actually fried (black char marks on the pcb) because that would be a first I've ever heard of and it would be interesting to find out what actually happened.
I'm not connecting the dots here... so Michael Dell is now "Anne C"? And he's a she? (And only a bronze-level blogger?) That seems the bigger headline to all of this?
Glad I got the Mini9 whilst I could... best thing for a little quick "movie" watching on the sly.
Yes, that meant pr0n anywhere in the house.
read all that - they suggest a diff model now, which is same price for ubu or winshit however the top end model costs 36 more[closest i could get it] difference being 3 pieces of software: 1. xp sp3 2. norton's folly, and 3. ms works [which doesnt]
meh
But our Nick has you deed in a proper manner, daed to rights. Oh Michael has come to masquerading as a PR bunnie that about as useful as a chocolate Steve Jobs. Carry on, Nick.
They've gimped this machine so it will only support 1gb of ram. Anyone here want to buy a netbook that only supports 1gb of ram? I didn't think so.
wtf...
"Anyone here want to buy a netbook that only supports 1gb of ram?"
How much ram do you want IE or FF to run?? it is a netbook, not a friggen desktop replacement.
I own a Mini 9, and it runs Ubuntu very well indeed. It boots up faster than my desktop with vista on it!
Another 2nd rate product from Dell...how can you screw up a netbooks this badly? The specs are largely fixed! Yikes.
Sorry Dell, how many did you sell? 68? Most people aren't that stupid.
Of course, the Mini 9 didn't look so bad when the 12 inch absolute design disaster was released....
Well there you go, "Nick" is the type of person Dell is relying on. Why get 2gb when you can have ONE?! What can you even say to this kind of reasoning?