Dell Mini Inspiron = Inspiron 910?

Dell Mini Inspiron There is a Brazilian site (Odontopalm) that claims to have details of the 8.9″ Dell Mini Inspiron, only they are referring to it as the Inspiron 910, (and they mention it was called the E at one point).

Now it wouldn’t surprise me if we get details from outside the US – it happens all the time that things get leaked by accident, and Dell’s netbook is definitely targeted towards exposing people to computers who might not have been exposed to them in the past (or at least lowering the barrier of entry). South America would definitely be a big market for them.

They are talking about a launch date of August 22 (next week). I consider that reasonable – we thought they would announce it earlier this week when they announced the new Latitude E series, however, in retrospect, it would have been foolish to do so. Much better to have them a week or two apart so that you can maximize the publicly for each series.

This is going to be a special device for Dell, given their push into the Indian and Chinese markets (Dell 500, etc.) as well as other developing markets.

It’s also the complete opposite of the Latitudes they just announced, which are at the high-end of Dell’s mobile products.

As far as the naming convention – the “910” could signify that it was a 9-inch model (8.9″ but many just round it up), and obviously they wouldn’t want to use 900 or 901 (or 90x anything) since that’s what Asustek is doing.

Things we knew that they mentioned:

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MacBook Air Revision Soon?

Apple MacBook Air Could a revision of the 13.3-inch MacBook Air be just around the corner?

PhoneNews.com seems to think so. They are reporting that for the most part, the MacBook Air will still look the same. The internal components will change quite a bit from what we saw in the MacBook Air that was first released back in January of this year. A custom platform and CPU was being used in able to keep cooling and power requirements low. PN believes that they will move to a standard-sized Penryn Core 2 Duo, which could reduce the cost, while increasing the speed.

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Dell XPS M1330 to get 128GB SSD Option

Amidst all the hoopla over the new Dell Latitude E-series business line, a nice upgrade / option was added to the consumer-oriented 13.3-inch Dell XPS M1330 (an option available to the Latitude E-Series). It’s a 128GB Samsung FlashSSD Solid State Drive and it’s listed as … Read more

Things to Like and Dislike About the Acer Aspire One

Kevin Tofel over at jkOnTheRun has posted five things he likes and five things he doesn’t like about the 8.9-inch Acer Aspire One. Among the likes: Build quality, the display, and the battery life. Among the dislikes: Upgrading the memory on the Aspire One and … Read more

Samsung and Microsoft: Let’s Speed up Vista on SSDs

Just last month, Samsung announced the mass production of cheaper and larger Solid State Drives (SSD)s. There’s been some criticism over the performance (or lack thereof) when it comes to SSDs and Microsoft Windows Vista. Now it appears that Samsung and Microsoft are going to … Read more