Dell confirms Inspiron 910 netbook arriving this week
By Nilay Patel 
posted Sep 2nd 2008 6:11PM
posted Sep 2nd 2008 6:11PM
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posted Sep 2nd 2008 6:11PM
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about time
YES!!!!!!
about freakin time. can't wait to see what the "real" specs are.
I heard it from a Dell dude that it's gonna come it at $349 with !UBUNTU. Let's see how reliable he is...
Wow, FINALLY! Now let's see if my patience in waiting around for this bad boy will pay off. *crosses fingers*
Queue up the porn music when this thing is debuted. * Baw chicka bow wow, chicka bow wow*
Well if they release something like this in the future with an atom dual-core and 32gb of SSd, maybe more, then I will replace my eee 1000 in a year or 2.
Well if they release something like this in the future with an atom dual-core and 32gb of SSd, maybe more, then I will replace my eee 1000 in a year or 2.
Let us know how that turns out for you.
sam zebian. now in the stereophonic.
Even if it was a single post, still low-rank-worthy.
What a beautiful pic! I wish I had that Grade-A, perfect #2 pencil great enough to make me an A-student!
As i stated in a comment i left in the engadget's "Tip us on news" , I am a dell technician in the newly created "Your Tech Team" devision.
Last Thursday we had a gentleman from Dell's corporate office come in and talk to us about the new Inspiron 910 that we would be supporting. He stated that it would be coming out in the coming weeks and would have a price of $299.
So there you go, you now have a release date and price coming straight from the horses mouth.
i was thinking about a different region of the horse
Praise the internet! I found it!
Undeniable Turth!
Oh wait, no... it's just another fat kid stuck in the internet.
Two more things:
1) Since when is "the coming weeks" a release date?
2) Are there really THAT many grown men (and women) that like the itty bitty keyboards on 8.9" netbooks? I might was well type with the stylus on my WinMo phone. 10.1" is the only netbook I could imagine using for more then thirty minutes at a time.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was closer to $992 than $299.
OMG Phanbouy please knock it off!! You are fucking killing me here! :D :D
Ok fine, be children about it. Im just passing news from a trust worthy source along to you.
"Two more things:
1) Since when is "the coming weeks" a release date?"
I was refering to the release date that Engadget just gave you, but you had to get your snide little comment in didn't you.
Oh lighten up! It was funny. :D
I hate to be the one who writes this but... "hasn't a a secret"?
I'm assuming that they meant it "hasn't been a secret..." somebody was excited =) The 5th couldn't have could any sooner.
Baby Bump? Really you're gonna use that, Baby Bump. Have you been hangin with the Black Eyed Peas as of late? This is a nice little netbook, might have to replace this aging first gen asus craptop of mine.
you're not Flashpoint's understudy are you? stay outta gangs.
now lets see if they can actually provide the product. i ordered my lenovo s10 8/19? and its expected ship date is 9/9, yet speculation says they wont be shipping until early november at the earliest. hopefully theres a 10" netbook coming from dell...could make me cancel my s10 order.
@gw812
I'm with you on this. I just ordered an Aspire One yesterday.
I thought about cancelling to order, but not until I see some solid from Dell. Specs. and of course, pricing ?
I was incredibly excited about this machine, and then I saw the compromises they made on the keyboard. The grid layout of the first two rows of letters aren't so bad. And I can live without the ~ key.
But removing the bracket keys? I have to do some annoying key combination to type "[","]","{", or "}"? Unacceptable for anyone who does any programming. And yes, on a netbook, I'd still want to, as would many other people.
I was behind you on this one, Dell, and you blew it. Guess I'll get a Lenovo S10 instead.
why not just use keytweak .. or whatever its called, and then remove the key and take it to your local garage and get a paint job on it thus changing it to a bracket and then sticking it back in the keyboard and then doing it again on another day for the other bracket .
Very good point, but I can't see myself using this for programming. Plus I plan on getting one with Linux. Linux would boot faster and will be cheaper than XP.
Meh...
They missed the boat. IF this had debuted maybe 3 weeks ago at the price that was rumored, they would have killed in the back-to-school rush. IF. Instead, I type this message on my 4-day old Aspire One.
Y'know, at some corporations, the heads of supply and marketing actually have meetings, talk about things, bond over coffee...
wow, if it's awesome i'll send back the acer aspire one i just bought and get the mini dell :)
could someone enlighten me about whats happening with the E-slim, i really wouldn't mind picking one of those up when they are released, when abouts do you suppose / speculate the release date for that could be? thanks
The only thing that's truly of importance here is the price. There's about 1,000,000 netbooks out there with 99% the same specs and the only other difference is price.
Basically:
If this netbook hits at $300 with the expected specs, it'll be a success, not an Eee killer, but it'll start the growth of Dell's success in the netbook market.
Looks ugly.......too cheap of a plastic....dell, must see in real life, to change my view hopefully....
.. multiple bullet wounds ...cannot type properly.. help me.. he..
If I were a betting man - I'd say it was coming out on thursday. If you haven't noticed - all Dell promotions (and most releases) happen on thursdays. That's because their promos start on Thursday and end at close of business wednesday (occasionally they let them go overnight until 6am however) - So, I say look for it on Thursday.
So glad i decided to wait a day before ordering an Aspire One. Dell's going to sell every one of these they can produce.
My guess is that the price is going to be $299. I hope that dell makes a netbook with comparable quality to the msi wind and acer aspire one.
again...but can it cut cake?
your momma cuts the cheese
the cake is a lie.
Your moma's cutting the cheese wil eating cake is a lie. Now SHUT UP!
Where are the function keys? How am I supposed to use Expose' on this thing?
U realise that its not only for mac.....install compiz on linux and set a screen corner as a "hot corner" to enable it.......also there are SO MANY other cool features, which mac lacks.
Hot Corners? Really? Wow!
(you know you can do this in OSX too right?!?)
And Windows 98 SE. Who knows why Microsoft dropped that one?
Actually, compiz cripples some functions due to Apple patents, but i just took a hex editor to my compiz binaries to get them back..
@ScottishDan
No shit Sherlock ! Re-read my comment....thats why i said "U realise that its not only for mac".....ofcourse i know u can do it in Mac OS....thats why i mentioned it !
READ CAREFULLY !
This is a sick lookin netbook...lets hope the specs are as good as the design
Don't let us down Dell!
Finally a decent netbook with no "why didn't they" issues.
Searching for 910 on dell.com comes up with these few articles about the Inspiron 910:
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=us&dl=false&l=en&s=gen&docid=54BCD4281C153971E040AE0AB7E10507&doclang=en&cs=&~lt=print
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=us&dl=false&l=en&s=gen&docid=5560589F51057D6BE040AE0AB7E139FD&doclang=en&cs=&~lt=print
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/en/document?c=us&dl=false&l=en&s=gen&docid=54BC0325A7F2D6A7E040AE0AB7E11837&doclang=en&cs=&~lt=print
Good I guess if you need to know it only has 2 leds, the keyboard is missing a lot of keys, and it has no cdrom.