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September 04 2008
CNet gets hands-on with the Inspiron Mini 9 (Verdict: Anecdotally great!)
Perhaps we have a winner in the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 after all. Crave's got the first hands-on, and they seem to think it's a winner... especially in the battery life category.
In anecdotal testing, we found the Mini 9 to be highly usable for Web surfing, e-mailing, and even playing music files (its speakers were surprisingly loud, if predictably thin-sounding). The combo of Intel's Atom CPU, 1GB of RAM, and Windows XP found in almost every current Netbook works well for basic tasks, as long as you keep expectations modest and don't mind occasional slowdown if you try and open too many browser windows at once.Other initial thoughts: The four-cell battery was impressive. We haven't done our formal battery drain testing yet, but we're anecdotally looking at between three and four hours. The system fully boots from a cold start in about 45 seconds.
This is on the XP variety, so that boot-up time (and, la-dee-da-ing here, I'd guess on the Ubuntu Netbook Remix edition, battery-life as well) should be at least meagerly improved. They also didn't find the keyboard any better or worse than competing netbooks, although phrases like "tab key reduced to a sliver" always send a chill down my spine.
Hands-on with the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 [Crave]
