Liven up your school backpack with this 10" netbook that weighs only 2.5lb with up to 160 gigs of storage, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and more. Kevin Pereira and Olivia Munn find out if this Inspiron Mini is worth the $300.
Check out the full review from Attack of the Show after the cut.
What You Need To Know
- The Inspiron Mini is larger than the Lenovo S10-2 netbook but smaller than the Toshiba NB205.
- The battery protrudes a lot from the bottom. It comes in different colors.
- The full-size keyboard is the best we've seen all week, and almost all the keys are full size.
- The touchpad is exactly the opposite: the buttons are built in like the new MacBooks but it's hard to use with two hands. It's better to use only one hand or an external mouse.
- The performance got the lowest PCMark05 scores of the week. It can still launch applications well and keep up with other netbooks but it's still a little below average.
- The problem could be all the pre-installed software or slower RAM.
Price
- Starts at $300.00 and the netbook we reviewed was $374.
- This isn’t worth the money but go for it if you don't want to spend too much.
- Otherwise, the Lenovo S10-2 or Toshiba NB205 are better choices.
Rating
- 2.5 Seals of Approval out of 5. (How do we rate gadgets?)
Comments
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jadesmith
Dell Inspiron Mini 10v is a basic Netbook offers features of the expensive Mini 10 but keeps the price below $300. I will recommend this computer to you if you are looking for a basic Netbook.
Thumbs up for its inexpensiveness. Thumbs Down for no edge to edge glass screen.
http://www.onlinenotebook.co m/category/dell
Rupesh
Ya i agree that the keypad are actually good as compare to others. I loved this laptop. The screen is great. It is not too small nor big. This laptop has a convenient speed and better to use for long time. if you want to know more about it then visit:- http://www.onlinenotebook.com/ dell-inspiron-mini-10v-netbook -computer.html
kristain77
Dell's Mini 10v keeps a lot of the features of the more expensive Mini 10, while dropping the price below $300. It's one of only a handful of $299 Netbooks that doesn't look and feel especially cheap.
http://www.onlinenotebook.co m/dell-inspiron-mini-im1012-68 7obk.html
SkylerZio
get an Asus 1000HE, its about the same price, But so so much better than any Dell.
vismortis
Go with Lenovo its just a different name and cheaper price for their other line the ThinkPad (and most people even mac lovers (ones that are still sane ) will admit ThinkPads are good hardware. Lenovo makes a good system I have an old Lenovo 300n100 and never had a issue with it and a Lenovo ThinkPad X300 which I love. I have had 2 Dell Towers and many dell laptops all which were Junk. one laptop burned out 4 CPU fans before the MOBO died. Another actually fell apart(case cracked into 1,000 little pieces from regular usage).
On a scale of 0 - 100 i would give it a -6 just because it's a Dell.
PS: My first laptop in like 6th grade (1998) was a Toshiba and that thing was awesome ( well as awesome as a laptop for 98 was, i think my current cellphone could out do that thing now but thats tech.)
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