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."

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Re:The value of Windows

[The Living Fractal]

IMHO the only reason you wouldn't want to run Vista on this machine is system requirements. I have run Vista for months now, and yes, it takes up more resources. But in those six months, how many times has my PC (which I built myself) crashed? Zero.

Yep. Zero crashes in six months. And I leave the PC on for weeks at a time.

Windows XP never did that on any of my previous machines.

Maybe I've been lucky. But I used to be like you: scared to try Vista. Now that I've been running Ultimate 64bit with 8gb of RAM for six months.. I'm never looking back to XP.