Dell Mini Chromebook

Chromium new notebooks are the talk of the week. They are hot and a bit controversial. At least the rental is. Have a little Dell Mini? Well, if you do, there is a quick way to turn your sluggish Dell Mini into racing Dell Mini Chromebook. There are reported bugs in the experiment, but let’s [...]

AT&T adds three more netbooks to their Mobile Broadband netbook bundle

AT&T has added three netbooks: Acer Aspire one, Dell Mini 10 and Lenovo S10 (review) to their mobile broadband netbook bundle. All of these netbooks are available at AT&T’s website.

Each netbook will cost you $199.99 (after using AT&T’s promotion card) and two year contract.

Dell phases out Mini 9 netbook

Dell has confirmed that it won’t be making Mini 9 netbooks anymore. The Dell Mini 9 was launched in September 2008 at a price tag of $349. Since then, the Dell has released several (bigger) netbooks as the market was responding better to the bigger netbooks as they allowed the manufactures to equip them with bigger keyboards and bigger screens.

Dell is now urging the consumers to go for the Dell Mini 10V instead which is currently retailing at $299 and comes with a bigger 10-inch screen.

Dell Mini 10v netbook at $299 – SSD options added

The Dell Mini 10v has made its first appearance in Dell’s May month catalog. The basic model of 10v is just going to cost you $300, which is a pretty decent price for what you get. Its specifications include:

• Intel Atom N270 processor
• 120 GB HDD
• 1 GB RAM
• 1.3MP webcam
• Windows XP Home edition with SP3
• price tag of $299, a $100 less than the base Mini 10

The netbook is anticipated to be available by Mid-May. Also spotted on Dell’s retail site are new 32GB or 64GB SSD options for the current Mini 10 for an extra $75 or $125, respectively.

ARM netbook coming to AT&T

AT&T is soon going to offer ARM based netbooks running Linux OS. Glen Lurie, President of emerging devices for AT&T says,

“There are a lot of people who will dive in and build netbooks, including folks like cellular or wireless OEMs who never built a computer before. There will be a lot of innovation around what a netbook looks like and what the use cases are, and we will see this evolve very quickly,”

He thinks that the ARM based netbooks would do just fine as people are doing their work via Cloud-based applications and thus do not need a lot of horsepower in their netbooks. He also showed keen interest in the MIDs, which he refers to as “smartphones on steroids.”

AT&T is already selling four subsidized netbooks: Acer Aspire One, Dell Mini 9, Dell Mini 12 and LG X110.

PS: Lurie also manages AT&T’s relationship with Apple to sell the iPhone in the U.S.

Dell Mini 10 3G version now available in China

Dell has shaked hands with the China Mobile to let the users enjoy 3G services on the go. Not only China Mobile, Dell has teamed up with other global telecom providers including Vodafone in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, AT&T in the US, M1 and Starhub in Singapore, and Maxis in Malaysia.

It will retailed at $575 in China.

Dell Mini 10 gets dissected

Dell has published several illustration photos with description of how to disassemble the Dell Mini 10 and gain access to the HDD, CPU and Wireless card. Please note that you will have to take keyboard out in order to get your hands on the aforementioned items. And by removing the trackpad assembly, you can even add TV tuner to the unit. Unfortunately, you cannot upgrade the RAM as it soldered to the unit.
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