Small SLOW SSD drive
Back drop LCD hinge looks retarded (you cant open the screen all the way out)

Its just a bad design. Big mistake by Dell. They are going to get slaughtered by the superior Lenovo s10 and Acer One. No contest.

yesidonoitall said:
Not sure what you mean, mine opens fully as any.Not even close. It only goes a little past 90 degrees. Thats it. You cant open it very far after 90 degrees. Not only that but the back-dropped hinge design is idiotic.

These Dell Minis can not compete with the Acer One and Lenovo s10. No contest what so ever. Unless the Dell drops its price to $299.99 there is no reason to buy one.

yesidonoitall said:
I see 135 degrees easy.Its less than that. It just sucks that you cant open the screen very far like on normal laptops. Bad design.

Oh, they all have LED backlit. DUH!

But... Dell gave me 3 Mini 9 laptops for $99 each back when they had the deal, actually I made money on the deal because I sold the XPS Laptops I got with them for more than the cost of the entire package. Can't beat that deal.

They're reinforced with Magnesium chassis under all that plastic too.
Very simple & easy to upgrade.
Dead silent operation, no noise at all.

Put 2GB of ram in one, upgrade SSD to an SLC from MyDigital & above all, wipe out that bloated Dell pre-install & RE install XP from Scratch, & you will have a very fast, strong durable little baby computer.

What kind of battery life do you get on these?
Better be 6 to 8 hours at very least.....

IPMD said:LED Backlit screen! Who else has that? It's the most important specification. The screen is beautiful! (very small) but beautiful! Also, I just bought a 32GB SLC SSD and it FLYS! ALSO, Dell ships these with Windows XP on a COMPRESSED drive C:, wipe the whole works out & re-install XP from scratch & that little baby computer flys circles around anything else!

If you look at spec of all netbook, asus eee 901/900/700, acer aspire one, and Lenovo S10, and MSI wind, they all have LED backlit screen.

Yes, I saw anandtech.com review on mini 9 and eee 901. mini 9 boot time is almost double of eee 901. The best thing that I like Dell is fanless design. Other than that it's not better
than eee 901. Lenovo S10 gives 10 inch LCD with slightly big size(close to Aspire One).
Aspire One so far is the best in term of price/performance. Only thing is it's slightly bigger but still gives 8.9" screen. Its size can accomdate a 10" screen. I wish their next one can have 10" even it's $50 more expensive. I would go with that.

lchen5 said:IPMD said:LED Backlit screen! Who else has that? It's the most important specification. The screen is beautiful! (very small) but beautiful! Also, I just bought a 32GB SLC SSD and it FLYS! ALSO, Dell ships these with Windows XP on a COMPRESSED drive C:, wipe the whole works out & re-install XP from scratch & that little baby computer flys circles around anything else!

If you look at spec of all netbook, asus eee 901/900/700, acer aspire one, and Lenovo S10, and MSI wind, they all have LED backlit screen.

Yes, I saw anandtech.com review on mini 9 and eee 901. mini 9 boot time is almost double of eee 901. The best thing that I like Dell is fanless design. Other than that it's not better
than eee 901. Lenovo S10 gives 10 inch LCD with slightly big size(close to Aspire One).
Aspire One so far is the best in term of price/performance. Only thing is it's slightly bigger but still gives 8.9" screen. Its size can accomdate a 10" screen. I wish their next one can have 10" even it's $50 more expensive. I would go with that.

Some good points here, but all these laptops have issues.

eee 901: 4.3 lbs and more money. too heavy for a netbook

Lenovo s10: heavier than the Dell, but get's a little too warm. Also, poor battery life, large footprint and not a great keyboard

Acer Asiper One: I had one, but the build quality is horrible. First one wabbled, second one and my friends system had a screen flicker at lower brightness settings. Acer's fix was to disable the low settings, but I still saw some flicker even after that.

Dell: Poor placement of apostrophe key. Small hard disk.

Honestly, I haven't seen the killer netbook yet. I have a Dell and Lenovo on order, I'm going to keep the Dell (if I can get those bastards to ship it)

Someone already posted software to remap keys, remap the ' where the : is, then I'm going to solder in a 32gb thumb drive which should be enough storage for me. Again, not perfect, but it has a small footprint, 3+ hours battery life, no heat, no fans, no moving parts, looks pretty good. For ME the Dell is pretty close...

They should be selling these for $250 at the most.
A little dissapointed in mine.

edders said:I think you guys are getting the EEE PC 901 mixed up with the 1000. The 901 weighs just hair over 2lbs. I have the 900 and I love it but the touchpad is a little crap. I am planning on using a $250 AMEX Rewards card on the Dell in a month or so just in case they have any "upgrades" to the Mini.
We recently got a 901 and the touchpad was awful. I found some drivers from the pad manufacturer, Elantech, that made the pad perform MUCH better. Don't think they're on the Asus site, but search for eee +elantech and you should find them. Site was all in Chinese, I think, but I downloaded the drivers and they work well. Imagine it's the same for the 900.