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Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Review
Well, in our ongoing series to show you all the different netbooks that are on the market today and I honestly think we can probably do a whole show just about netbooks. There is so many coming out these days and there are so popular. We’re going to take a look at this one from Dell. It is called the Dell Mini. This is the version nine we’re looking at today and the reason why they called it the version nine is because it essentially has 8.9-inch screen. So almost nine inches, let’s call it nine inches and that is why they called it the mini nine.
Interesting thing about netbooks is how do you decide like what makes it a netbook and we are talking about this in essentially anything kind of let you get to the 12 inches and 13 inches and 14 inches it becomes a notebook but anything under that is sort of classified a net. I know we keep showing this but just to break up my Toshiba here you know the whole idea behind this netbooks is that they are just smaller computers less expensive, easy to sort of pick up, take with you on the road. One of the reasons why there are less expensive is because they typically do not have as much processing power.
This one has the Intel-Atom processor. It is 1.6 gigahertz not meant for a lot of heavy lifting but it certainly is a strong enough to run things like e-mail and web browsing. Couple of things to take a look at here, they have actually removed all the function keys and actually I’ll show you just in comparison back to the Toshiba here. If you look at the Toshiba we’ve got all these function keys along the top row. In order to make more room for the track path for the mouse here is that they made the keyboards smaller by removing those and if you take a closer look here you will see that all the function keys are actually what they call function keys so you have to the hit the function button and the function key to make those work.
It’s not a big deal but as they squeeze these keyboards smaller and make them closer together guys like me who have big hands have a lot of trouble starting to use them but nevertheless pretty good little notebook and I should mention the prices on these things start you know around 350 dollars range and go up from there. So you can get started with one of these little notebooks fairly cheaply.
I will show you how you can expand these things because a lot of people do not actually realize this. Netbooks often get a bad wrap for not kind of not being upgradable but take a look at this because it is using a solid state hard drive it is actually not using like what were used to those traditional hard drives like the EZ drives.
They use this solid-state drive. They look like these little chips you know what we associate memory chips or RAM chips. So if you want to upgrade your hard drive this is it here on this site. You can literally go from solid-state drive. This one is 16. You can have 32 or even a 64-gigabyte drive to this one pretty simply. The memory is pretty standard as well. This has one gig chip in it but I can pop that out and put in a two-gig version as well.
And something interesting to know because I just do have it open here in your app. They actually have W-RAM cards essentially the idea here if you can put it in like 3G wireless card so that you can get internet like a cellphone internet anywhere you go.
And this card here just I got it open is our wireless internet so when you get it home and you connect to your sort of home router or whatever that is card there that is doing that. Again, it is the Dell mini. This is the nine versions. It’s got the 8.9 inch screen and it is a pretty good little unit if you're interested in getting into the world of netbooks.
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