It’s been a shorter working week what with Thanksgiving on Thursday, and much of the gadget news has been around what offers, bargains and discounts were on offer at cash-strapped retailers. SlashGear has done its bit to ease your present picking pickle, with the 2008 Holiday Gift Guide. We’ve also had reviews of Sony’s VAIO LV and VAIO RT all-in-one PCs; will you be lucky enough to find one of these monster media machines under your tree next month?
It looks as though Dell’s Inspiron Mini 9 netbook may be further delayed, with some order shipping dates reportedly extended to November 18th. The netbook first encountered a hitch back in September, with reported problems sourcing the chassis assembly; now it appears that a back-order delay in the “LED cover” won’t be fulfilled until at least the second week in November.
Update: New delay screen-shot after the cut
While we first flagged up the Inspiron Mini 9’s upgrade potential earlier this week, Dell have gone one stage further and posted the netbook’s service manual on their site. Diagrams explain how to dismantle the budget ultraportable, flagging up key components such as the SSD and Bluetooth, as well as highlighting screws and latches.
The leaked flyer was only the start of it; there’s still no official press release [update: press release after the cut, and the microsite is up], but the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbook (aka Dell Inspiron 910) is now available to order on their website. The three Mini 9 models – Standard, Social and XP Edition – are there, priced from $349 for the Standard and up to $449 for the Windows-based XP Edition, with an estimated ship date of September 16th.
Check out the Dell Mini 9 video demo after the cut
Color us a little disappointed. A leaked flyer has outed the pricing for Dell’s upcoming Inspiron Mini 9 netbook (aka Inspiron 910), which according to sources is set for an official announcement on Thursday 4th. While we thought the initial rumors – which suggested a $299 price tag – were likely too good to be true, and while $349 is still affordable it’s a pity that Dell couldn’t bring the netbook in at under that magic $300-mark.
Dell having grudgingly confirmed that the Inspiron 910 netbook is coming this week, now the Wall Street Journal has stepped in with an email from Box.net that confirms it will specifically drop on Thursday 4th. Box.net, an online file store and collaborative workspace, was also confirmed to be preinstalled on the netbook
Dell have confirmed that they will be launching their netbook offering this week, as was suggested earlier on today. However the company spokesperson declined to name the upcoming budget ultraportable, believed to be the Inspiron 910, and described the leaked specifications seen so far as “still pretty much rumor and speculation”.
The much-rumored August 22nd release date for Dell’s upcoming Inspiron 910 netbook came and went, leaving potential buyers with a quandary. As expected, many were students (or parents of students) looking for a back-to-school laptop, and Dell’s apparent delay could have pushed them into the welcoming arms of other manufacturers. Now Gizmodo are reporting another leaked announcement date: Friday September 5th.
Intel have been holding their annual Developers’ Forum in San Francisco this week, and quite a few prototypes and commercial products have come out to play. Of the former, most exciting seems to be the UrbanMax Tablet PC concept; of the latter, Viliv’s S5 MID and S7 UMPC both promise to crank the netbook market up a gear or two.
That’s probably not what Acer want to hear; the company has snipped pricing off of their Aspire One netbook, presumably remembering (only a little late) that the ultraportables are meant to be cheap. Not far from the shelves, Fujitsu’s Amilo Mini and Dell’s Inspiron 910 continued to leak information, but still no official word from the tongue-tied companies themselves.
Images of Dell’s Inspiron 910 netbook running Ubuntu have found their way to Engadget. Initial rumors have suggested that Dell would be announcing the netbook today, Friday August 22nd, but so far there has been no word from the company. These new pictures, however, show a slightly modified keyboard, still with a Windows key that indicates Dell will definitely be offering a version of the netbook running a Microsoft OS (likely XP).
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