A 12-inch version of the Inspiron Mini, which sounds a lot like the still-not-available mystery product we saw at Tesco last month, has popped up on Dell’s website, which could mean a very soon release date. The user manuals, troubleshooting documents and tech guides for the Inspiron Mini 12 were hidden in the company’s product support pages.
According to the guides, the netbook will come with either an Intel Atom Z520 or Z530 CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 1.3MP camera, three USB 2.0 ports, and either a 3- or 6-cell battery. You’ll also be able to choose between Ubuntu or Windows Vista, probably getting a neat price reduction if you go for Linux. No information on pricing or a specific release date yet. [Engadget]
Bennish
Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 5:04 PMFreakin’ sweet! How much how much how much
Is it gonna look like the tesco page? I’m assuming this one is a different pic.
How is atom for vista? Good?
Barry
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 1:21 AMlol, you can forget about running vista with an Atom processor, it is nowhere near powerful enough. You might just get some use out of it with XP, but I would turn off all the fancy GUI stuff and everything that isn’t an absolute necessity.
I think this thing will ship with Linux as an option, just a guess though.