Inspiron Mini 9?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 22:21 -0500, Mark Komarinski wrote:
> Does anyone have one of these wee beasts?  I'm headed to Hawaii for a 
> week in February and want to take something that's even smaller and 
> lighter than my Thinkpad X61 (which is already pretty small).  I'd like 
> to hear your thoughts.
> 
> I want to use it to:
> 
> - charge various USB devices (i.e. blackberry, ipod touch, etc.)
> - upload photos from my camera to my home server
> - IMAP for my mail, web browser for gmail
> - remaining amused on the plane (or is that overly hopeful?)

A buddy brought his Dell Mini 9 w/him down to FUDCon today, and me my
Acer Aspire One. First I'd seen of the Dell in person. The screens are
on par (pretty much identical size and appearance), and the Dell is
slightly more configurable, but the Dell keyboard SUCKS. Its almost an
inch narrower than the AAO's (which is already 85% the size of a normal
keyboard), and the pipe and one other key are in a goofy place and
require using an fn modifier key to enable, making it rather sub-optimal
for anything cli-ish. I wouldn't last more than a few minutes before
returning one myself (or chucking it out a window), but I have fairly
large hands and have to type a lot, so... *shrug*. I rather like the
AAO, but if I were getting a netbook today, I'd probably go with a
Lenovo IdeaPad S10.



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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com