Dell may not be as aggressive as netbook-obsessed companies like Asus and HP, but it does have several of them under its belt. Though the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 and the Mini 12 are slowly being phased out, that still leaves Dell's 10-inch netbook—of which there are two versions: The Dell Inspiron Mini 10 (review coming shortly) can be configured with bells and whistles such as an "HD" screen resolution, a TV tuner, and mobile broadband. The "v" in the Dell Inspiron Mini 10v ($334) might as well stand for value, since it lacks these options while leaving you with the bare netbook essentials. Still, it's very aggressively priced, and the 56Wh battery secured almost 8 hours of battery life.
The Dell Inspiron Mini 10v battery is relatively compact for a 10 inch netbook thanks to a keyboard which stretches virtually from one end of the chassis to the other and a touchpad which incorporates the left and right mouse buttons into the touch area. There’s a decent sized bezel around the display, but it would be hard to make the netbook much smaller without shrinking the keyboard.
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Dell offers the netbook in a number of colors. The black model is included in the base cost, or for $40 extra you can get the netbok with a white, red, pink, blue, green, or purple lid. The model reviewed has a purple lid which is glossy but does not show fingerprints as clearly as most other glossy lids I’ve seen. The bezel around the display is matte, and while there’s a glossy silver strip of plastic in the palm rest area, it doesn’t really show fingerprints either.
The hinge is placed in a way so that when you open the lid it folds down a bit behind the base of the computer which helps keep the machine from taking up too much vertical space. But that also means it doesn’t open to a very wide angle.
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If you get a 3 cell Dell Mini 10v battery it will sit flush with the base of the netbook. The 6 cell battery sticks out like a sore thumb. But while the 6 cell battery isn’t exactly the most attractive, it slides firmly into place, makes a nice carrying handle, and gives the keyboard a bit of tilt which makes typing reasonably comfortable.
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Dell Mini 10v is customizable, but a basic 10v includes:
- 1.6-GHz Intel Atom N270 processor
- Windows XP Home Edition SP3
- 1 GB of RAM
- Integrated Intel 945 GSE UMA Graphics Media Accelerator
- Glossy 10.1-inch screen
- 160 GB hard drive
- Wi-Fi 802.11 g – half mini-card
- Bluetooth internal mini-card
- Built-in 1.3MP webcam
- 3-cell battery
- 2.86 lbs
All Dell's netbook eggs are now firmly in the Mini 10v basket. The machine is currently available in three flavours: the Linux- or Windows-driven 10v, and the Windows-only, suffix-less 10. The key difference between the two sub-ranges is that the 10 uses Intel's hanheld device-oriented Atom Z520 and 530 CPUs, while the 10v uses the N270. We've chosen to look at the runt of the litter, the Mini 10v with an 8GB SSD, perhaps the purest iteration of the SCC since the halcyon days of the Asus Eee PC 701 and first Acer Aspire One Series battery.
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The Inspiron Mini 10v battery ran for 5 hours and 40 minutes on our video playback battery drain test, using the included six-cell battery. That's fantastic, even for a low-power Netbook. However, the battery is especially bulky, and sticks out from the bottom of the system, raising the rear end. A smaller three-cell battery option is also available.
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Dell offers an industry-standard, one-year, parts-and-labor warranty with the system, which includes on-site service (after what the company calls "remote diagnosis"). Bumping that up to two years is a reasonable $40 upgrade. Online support is accessible through a 24-7 toll-free phone line, an online knowledge base, and driver downloads.
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