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Since its arrival in European markets, we knew that we’d eventually be getting the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 with integrated 3G wireless here in the colonies. Well, that time has arrived.
Sign up for a two-year contract with AT&T and you can get a $120 rebate on the purchase of your Dell netbook. Want to [...]

Oooh. Another gadget for my Christmas list. (Providing it’s available in time for my Acer Aspire One…)
Runcore is delivering fast SSD storage in mini-PCIe format for netbooks.
How fast?
From Kevin at jkOnTheRun:
jkk ran speed-tests on the storage and thanks to the high-quality controller paired with the MLC flash memory, he saw reads top out over 70Mbps with writes [...]

Dell will offer the Inspiron Mini 9 for $299 on the infamous “Black Friday” post-Thanksgiving shopping day.
(Typically, most online deals occur during “Cyber Monday” which is usually the Monday following Thanksgiving. But, I digress…)
This will likely be the low-end model with 512 MB RAM, a 4 GB SSD and Ubuntu Netbook Remix installed that currently [...]

Well, wouldn’t you expect me to send you an announcement if the stork brought me child? Computers, even tiny ones like this netbook deserve to feel special too.
So I know you feel me when I say that we are welcoming a new Dell Mini 9 into our computing family.

This is my first real chance to [...]

Walt Mossberg - the man who can make or break your personal technology product or service -  has decided that netbooks have finally arrived.
In his column this week on the All Things Digital blog, he reviewed the Acer Aspire One, the Dell Inspiron Mini 9, the MSI Wind U100, and the Asus Eee PC 1000H.
Somewhere between [...]