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Dell Begins Selling Inspiron Mini 9
mocoloco writes "A week after the rumored date, Dell has begun selling their entry into the netbook/subnotebook/UMPC market, the Inspiron Mini 9. The base system for $349 includes Ubuntu 8.04 "with custom Dell interface", 512MB RAM, and a 4GB SSD. There are options with XP, one that includes an 8GB drive and a $40 instant savings, another with a 16GB drive and 1GB RAM that has a $55 instant savings. Curiously the Ubuntu systems are a pre-order at this point, to be shipped within 15 days. Also, no Red option yet."
You should learn to proofread. You're giving us Canadians a bad name, therefore Dell won't sell their new products to us.
Munitions export laws. You guys are poised to attack us. Look, you've even amassed all your population along our border. And you don't even pronounce the letter 'o' correctly in 'about'. And don't even get me started on about the beer....
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They are just charging extra for access to all the Ubuntu program repositories. That's not free, you know. That's a valuable service not provided by MS so Dell needs to charge more to pay for it.
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If we started you on the beer, you'd be so drunk so fast....
Cue ominous music...
This irks me, if you go to the "design" tab and hit "Meet the Mini" it says "Look for Ubuntu Linux 8.04 with custom Dell interface when customizing your Inspiron Mini 9, or upgrade to Genuine Microsoft Windows XP."
So XP is considered an Upgrade? Aaarrgh!
Yes, it's weapons-grade beer. You've also stocked up most of this continent's oil too... hmmm.
Geez, that's a lot of "yanking" and "pulling". Are you sure you're talking about a laptop? If the processor should ever fail, I wonder if Asus is going to honor the warranty considering the case has been violated more than Paris Hilton.
By the time you're done, you could have had Steve Jobs personally build you a custom MacBook with knurled hand-rubbed walnut trim.
You are welcome on my lawn.
By the time you're done, you could have had Steve Jobs personally build you a custom MacBook with knurled hand-rubbed walnut trim.
I just read "Steve Jobs" and "hand-rubbed" and decided I want one of those.
Yeah. OK, well, uh, we found, uh, this mouse in a bottle of YOUR BEER, eh. Like, we was at a party and, uh, a friend of ours - a COP - had some, and HE PUKED. And he said, uh, come here and get free beer or, uh, he'll press charges
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French support for Dell shouldn't be much of an issue:
"reboot your PC" - "rechargez votre PC"
"reinstall the operating system" - "réinstallez le du système d'exploitation"
I've got most of the work already done!
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
I agree, shocking Canadian grammar - not a single "eh" to be seen.
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If you calculate in Windows' negative value, it makes sense. It would be like buying a new car that had soda spilled all over the seat, discounted because you'd have to clean the crap out before you can use it.
They probably copy-and-pasted that from the blurb for machines that come with Vista pre-installed. Simple mistake.
> Apart from the Linpus distro
I never heard of that distro before seeing the Aspire page there, but I have to say: Worst. Marketing. Name. Ever.
Linpus: Linux... new and improved, with extra pus!
If we started you on the beer, you'd be so drunk so fast....
"You know Canadian beer is like moonshine."
"Hell yes!"
Chicken fried butter sticks? Do
MS say you cant sell or preload XP, except in markets where vista can't complete or operate 8)