Dell’s Latitude 2100 netbook has already found favor with reviewers, with the education ultraportable tipped as top of the class for its sturdy build, neat classroom features and great viewing angles from the 10-inch LCD. What we haven’t seen so far is the unboxing experience, so NetbookNews are on hand with a video of just that.
Video unboxing after the cut
Cellular South announced that they will be offering the Dell Inspiron Mini 10 with 3G network access on their own carrier. This subsidized netbook measures in at 10.1-inches and would offer wide-range coverage for subscribers. This is very similar to what AT&T is offering.
After its Japanese announcement earlier this week, it was only a matter of time until the Dell Vostro 1220 made an appearance on the company’s US site. Sure enough, the 12.1-inch 3.36lb notebook is now available to order, offering a choice of Intel Celeron 900 or Core 2 Duo processors with prices starting from $799.
Dell have announced that their Mini 10 netbook will get a GPS option next week in the US. The 10-inch netbook will be offered with Dell’s Wireless 700 location solution as an option, which will use both a hardware GPS chip together with WiFi triangulation to acquire positioning data. They’ll also include CoPilot.
Dell has revealed a brand new Inspiron desktop model today called the Inspiron 546. This computer is intended for the budget-friendly crowd while still offering up a generally decent feature set.
The new computer features a 2.3GHz AMD Sempron processor, ATI graphics and 2GB of DDR2 RAM. There are numerous upgrade options available, however, that allow you to boost the RAM up to 8GB, the processor to a 2.4GHz quad-core Phenom and the hard drive all the way up to 1TB.
The base model does not include a monitor, though you can add one that spans from 20 to 24-inches in size. The Inspiron 546 is available in eight different colors for just $269. However, boosting all the specs to their highest capacity will cost you $1,800.
Dell Japan have officially announced the Vostro 1220, the budget notebook we saw leaked earlier this month. The 12.1-inch 1280 x 800 notebook uses processors from Intel’s Centrino 2 range, together with the GM45 Express chipset, weighs 1.52kg and promises up to 9hrs runtime from the larger 6-cell battery option.
Like Sony’s PSP phone rumors, talk of a new Dell smartphone refuses to die. After the leaked image earlier this month, now the Wall Street Journal is tenuously suggesting that Dell have been experimenting with Android-based prototypes. Two people who have seen the prototypes have described them as “slightly larger than Apple’s iPod touch”; however another person has suggested both that Dell may begin shipping the device later in 2009 or “the plan could be delayed or scrapped entirely.”
You’ll need more than a passing familiarity with the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 to spot the mod here, so we’ll give you a hefty hint: it’s the fingerprint reader in the right-hand side of the palm-rest. MyDellMini forum member Rich decided he wanted biometric login functionality in his netbook, so inserted the guts of an Eikon fingerprint reader into the Mini 9.
Dell’s upcoming 12-inch budget notebook, the Vostro 1220, has leaked, and it scores a few points for being neither CULV nor Atom based. Instead, the Vostro 1220 gets an Intel Core 2 Duo T6750 processor, up to 4GB of RAM and a 320GB hard-drive, plus a DVD burner.
In-the-wild photos of Dell’s upcoming Latitude Z600 notebook have emerged, and while there are no solid specifications known at present, it’s looking to be an interesting portable. The Z600 is tipped as having a 15-inch display, while the logos suggest Intel’s Centrino platform serves up the underlying grunt.
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