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Dell Mini 11 quietly leaks out
We've been expecting a Dell Mini 11 to hit eventually, and it looks like the company is gearing up to make it reality: eagle-eyed tipster Bryce just noticed the Dell Mini 10 configuration tool now lists an extra battery for the "Dell Mini 10 and Mini 11." Sadly that's all we have to go on at the moment, but we'd bet whatever's coming down the pike is closely related to that Alienware m11x we just saw at CES -- a similar case minus the NVIDIA graphics, perhaps? We'll have to wait and find out. Update: This could be just a typo'd reference to the Inspiron 11z, we suppose -- curiouser and curiouser. Update 2: Dell just pinged us to say that it is indeed a mistake, and it was supposed to read Inspiron 11z. Solves that for now!
Dell and Samsung placing orders for 11.6-inch netbook screens?
We've known for a while that Dell's planning to follow the Mini 10 and Mini 12 with a Mini 11 at some point, and it sounds like that day isn't far off -- word out of the always-poppin' Display Taiwan 2009 tradeshow is that the company's placed a large order for 11.6-inch displays from noted party supplier Chunghwa Picture Tubes. We're also hearing that Samsung's getting in the action, so we'd assume there's a new CULV thin-and-light coming our from Korea sometime as well, but we'll see when we see.[Via Electronista]
Dell netbook roadmap leaks out, get ready for the Mini 11
Oops, it looks like a Dell middle manager somewhere got a little too excited and let a full set of netbook roadmap slides leak out. The biggest news is a planned Mini 11 due sometime between now and the end of Q3, but the Mini 10 is where most of the action is in the short term -- the current model will get options for Vista, a 3G modem, and potentially a 1.86GHz Atom on April 17th, a new 1.6GHz Atom N270 SKU will arrive in May and everything will be updated again in the second half of the year with Intel's Pine Trail processors. Interesting, but we're wondering when Dell will realize that the Mini 10's HDMI output and 720p screen are useless unless it can handle true HD video -- Ion, anyone?
