http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/ Engadget Comments for Inspiron Mini 12 pops up on Dell's website: it's a done deal (almost) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/Oct 15th 2008 11:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/
Not sure if this attempt to upscale the netbook (with a bigger LCD) will get much traction, what with the Aspire1 already at $350 base. Until Intel allows some diversifying of the guts, the netbook market is a commodity and will be differentiated mostly on price.
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either a gun or a porn movie.]]>Oct 15th 2008 11:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/Oct 15th 2008 11:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/
if its reasonable, this will be a big seller. ]]>Oct 15th 2008 11:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/Oct 15th 2008 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/Oct 20th 2008 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/Oct 15th 2008 11:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/Amen!

I have kept my old Inspiron 700m around forever for exactly this
reason.

Alll the new netbooks are (slightly) thinner and lighter, but they
have lower screen resolution and no optical drive. My Inspiron 700m
still runs XP great with a 2 GHz Pentium M, 1 GB RAM, a DVD burner
built in, and nice 12" 1280x800 screen that is very bright and crisp.

http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/dell-inspiron-700m/4505-3121_7-30975241.html

I always thought when I got this thing that it is the sweet spot for
size and portability without too much feature sacrifice. This
Mini-12 could be my next laptop, if it has an optical drive, which I
do need in a laptop.]]>Oct 23rd 2008 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/Oct 15th 2008 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/Oct 15th 2008 11:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/Oct 16th 2008 7:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/Oct 15th 2008 11:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/Oct 16th 2008 7:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/The important thing is that the chipset is brand new and supports hardware video decoding. GIVEN THE RIGHT DRIVERS AND SOFTWARE, the chipset can decode up to 1280p H.264. I've seen it in action and it's awesome!

This should be a very long battery life HQ video playback device.

Steve.]]>Oct 16th 2008 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/
And yes, it apparently has hardware acceleration for various codec decodes--mpeg-2, h.264, vc-1, and as a result its supposed to be able to handle 720p/1080i HD video better than the current products, and presumably with lower power too. The video part is apparently from Imagination Technologies, not Intel.

And yes, it is limited to 1GB of RAM and 1366x768 video.]]>Oct 16th 2008 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/Oct 15th 2008 11:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/Oct 15th 2008 11:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/
that is a bit of a deal breaker :/]]>Oct 16th 2008 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/
And yes, this is a deal-breaker. I also don't want a 12" display. The go-anywhere, do-anything size of other netbooks is a huge part of their appeal. An 11" display would have been much smaller.]]>Oct 16th 2008 12:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/Oct 16th 2008 5:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/
Check out the setup guide and service manual. The setup guide (in the Specifications section) only lists 1GB as a possible memory configuration. Also, the service manual mentions a "2-in-1 memory and processor board", and makes no reference to removing any other memory or memory slots.

That to me says that it's not upgradable.]]>Oct 16th 2008 8:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/Oct 16th 2008 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/Oct 17th 2008 3:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/Oct 16th 2008 12:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/Oct 16th 2008 12:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/
A 12" that gets anywhere close to $1000 will just be another also ran laptop, competing against all the more powerful laptops with better CPUs and graphics and expandability and ports and ...

Now, if its $499 I suppose there's a chance this might go somewhere, but personally if I were Dell I would have focused on a 10" companion to the Mini 9, or even an 11" version, maybe with some other enhanced specs to justify a minor price bump (802.11n say, or SLC flash, or a 2nd populated PCIe slot...). And tried to sell it for under $500.00]]>Oct 16th 2008 12:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/
Not impressed, really. There isn't much to be impressed with. They're trying to sell you a 3-4 year old 12" laptop design, but in 2008/2009. The resolution is on par with all 12" screens released over the years, and you're now getting the Atom instead of the original Centrino. And to top it all off, they're gonna sell it with Win XP. Deja Vu.]]>Oct 16th 2008 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/$500]]>Oct 16th 2008 1:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/$500 ;) which is too bad, I would have bought the mini if it had a 10-inch screen rather than 9, 11 would have been the sweet spot, but 12 is ok too i guess.]]>Oct 16th 2008 1:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/Oct 16th 2008 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/Oct 16th 2008 1:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/Oct 16th 2008 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/Oct 16th 2008 1:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/Oct 16th 2008 1:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/
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Is it actually redesigned with those bells and whistles?]]>Oct 17th 2008 1:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/Oct 16th 2008 10:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/

http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/dell-inspiron-700m/4505-3121_7-30975241.html

- 23T]]>Oct 16th 2008 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/15/inspiron-mini-12-pops-up-on-dells-website-its-a-done-deal-al/Oct 16th 2008 5:51PM