Dell Mini 9 modded into an internet tablet
By Vladislav Savov 
posted Oct 14th 2009 8:11AM
posted Oct 14th 2009 8:11AM
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Sweet! :D
Nice mod, but I wish all netbook manufacturers would start putting out convertible tablets like the (slightly underpowered) EEE T91, and the (overly chubby but speedy enough) Gigabyte...
Just waiting for the EE T101 or (rumoured?) Acer Timeline convertible...
Hackintosh, plz.
thats exactly what I was thinking. Rob928 needs to take this thing over to el' Jobso and smack him across the face with it "Here is your stupid iTablet, now stop yankin our chains and MAKE IT ALREADY.... I'm sick of hearing all these rumors with nothing concrete!"
Well there's always the Modbook. I don't know why people who want a tablet Mac don't get that instead of waiting for this "iTablet". It's pretty expensive, but the Modbook is well off alternative.
and since the iTablet is gonna run iPhone OS, I don't see why not.
Google the modbook, it is pretty much the same thing.
http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2007/12/axiotron-modbook.jpg
Doh!, N900 beat me to the punch ah well, no harm in posting twice!
I'm pretty much a windows guy, but when I read Dell Mini tablet, I thought how nice it'd be as a hackintosh as well.
Is there really any reason Dell couldn't do this themselves and sell it to us ?
they're waiting for apple to do it first.
@Tim
Are you kidding? Dell could release this first, and Apple and their band of iDiots would *still* claim that Apple invented the tablet. You just can't win with that crowd.
incredible!!
Not too shabby!
- Amir Rosenthal
I'll take two sir, if you please.
Love the cardboard stand. Just awesome ...
Really nice work.
Hard core, and it WORKS!!
KUDOS!!
The size a tablet needs to be. I would buy one just to take notes and put it some Wacom sweet relish. Yummy
hawtness!
This kind of thing makes you wonder what has happened in the last 4 years since HP discontinued the TC1100.
2005: 10" screen with wacom based tablet and detachable keyboard, 1ghz processor and 512mb of ram.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Compaq_TC1100
Hell it even runs win 7. What happened to that form factor?
I've got both a TC1000 and a Dell Mini 9, each running Windows 7. Form factor-wise, the TC1000 wins in every respect. In fact it's downright ideal for my needs (casual browsing around the house). Sadly the TC1000 is very underpowered (I've heard the 1100 is substantially better), and I've never been able to get the drivers working just right in windows 7. Even worse, my WindowsXP Tablet edition won't restore, so these days the little tablet sits idle on my bookshelf while the Mini 9 gets all the mileage.
Yeah, the TC1100 performance wise seems to run as well as any netbook, once u drop 1gb of ram in. It'll actually take 2gb. I'm in a similar situation to you, my keyboard connection is broken, so now it's essentially a pure slate, and so my netbook is getting much more mileage simply as it's easier to type.
I ran the win7 beta on it back at the start of the year and even back then i didn't have any driver issues at all. Aero wouldn't run on it, and I lost the use of the rotate button and what not, but otherwise, worked fine. Run ubuntu 9.04 well too (including really smooth compiz) once you read all the guides.
With respect to WinXP not restoring, consider following some guides on how to install XP from an SD card or flash drive (if you've not got the docking station) and do a fresh install instead of using the restore disk.
I'm tempted to sell my netbook and head back to this form factor and get mine fixed / buy another 2nd hand one. After all, these sell for well under £300 on ebay all the time with docking stations and ram upgrades as standard.
I want that. It is a good clean looking mod.
Funny im doing the same thing with a gateway m2105, thats what poor people get to play with. Anyone feel like donating a 15'' touch screen film?
Resistive or capacitive??? Come on, you KNOW it makes all the difference.
nice job modding it. kudos to you young ben!
but i already have a gigabyte m912x, nothing to mod,
just enjoying my tablet pc which can also easily be converted to boot on hackintosh which probably i will not do meh.
just in case anyone wanna see gigabyte m912x tablet pc running mac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ObbUsTaupA
Wow. Absolutely stunning. The fact that he uses a ThinkPad keyboard with it just makes it better.
Archos 9 remake i think....=)
if only my hp tc1100 would look like that.... oh wait, it does
one of the reasons it isn't a hackintosh is the driver issue with os x. There might not even be one. Though you could possibly make one...