Comments on: Dell Inspiron Mini 12 Arrives: Sleek but Slow

By: jetpeach

jetpeach — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:40:00 +0000

This is now available with Ubuntu! For $499, this is an amazing deal. The reviews say the battery lasts longer with Ubuntu, and the OS is much more zippy.

By: Disappointed So Bad

Disappointed So Bad — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:27:40 +0000

This netbook or notebook or watever is just perfect in terms of size. I really like its slim design and weight too. I believe that it is atom processor that makes vista os slow, rather than 1gig ram. And it is just so stupid, unbelievable, and disappointing that dell actually made it vista on atom processor with ram that’s not upgradable. This has gotta be a joke. What were they thinking??? I just can’t believe they did this… Who would ever want a computer that performs like 90’s old IBM in 2008? Trust me, I’ve seen how it performs on Youtube….IT IS EFFING SLOW!!!!! I was so happy to see this thing but then vista and 1gig un-upgradable ram just makes me just turn away. People would never buy this if they knew how sluggish this crap performs. Dell, please make it XP with upgradable ram so it has a good speed like computers these days…

Then I’ll buy it, people are going to buy it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:40:59 +0000

all of these suck

By: oivo

oivo — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:59:42 +0000

Hi,
I’d like to know if the Dell Inspiron Mini 12 doesn’t have a fan like the Dell Inspiron Mini 9?
Thanks!

By: anon

anon — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:45:07 +0000

On the poor performing graphics tests…did you set the resolution to 1280×800? Comparing a graphics benchmark at 1280×800 versus 1024×600 is hardly a fair comparison…

By: pratfall

pratfall — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:34:48 +0000

I believe Microsoft extended the OEM license for XP only to devices with 10″ screens and less, which could explain why this laptop is cursed with Vista. I’d love to see a 2GB RAM/SSD/Linux version of this laptop…

By: f²

f² — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:33:57 +0000

Can you tell us if Dell included a 3g adapter on this 12-inch netbook? And if there is a chance to change the (small) HD?!

By: animatt

animatt — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:14:13 +0000

I believe the1.8 inch actually has performance in the middle of the netbook ssd segment. SO it is not terribly fast as non of the standard ssd cards are terribly quick.

But I guess we will have to wait on reall numbers.

Also think they went with the 1.8″ because they felt Vista was there only option. With Vista and another large program Office. You are at 10+ gb. With that I doubt people would be happy with a 16gb ssd Being size what it is on this machine they were probably hard pressed to put 2 different ssd’s in there to get 20gb something like ASUS. Being that ASUS did not use Vista it go away with using a fairly fast ssd. But small with vista there would need to be atleast a fast 16gb ssd.
Being that 2 ssd’s would probably not fit, that would mean a 32gb and for that to have any kind of speed $$$$.

By: Hayden

Hayden — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:50:22 +0000

I would rather have the mini 9 (which, if it is generally similar to other nine inch netbooks, has a terrible keyboard and minimal storage space) with a 30 second boot instead of a larger screen, keyboard and storageful mini 12 with a four minute boot time. FOUR MINUTES! That’s…bad, to put it lightly. And I know bad. My desktop rig doesn’t even have a dual-core processor, and I haven’t been able to weed out all the crapware. I guess the boot time is about 3 minutes.

By: Fanfoot

Fanfoot — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:58:28 +0000

Not interested in this device per se, as the screen is too big to call this a netbook.

However, I am very interested in the Z series Atom’s and the Poulsbo chipset. Problem is we can’t really tell how well those perform vs. the existing chips from looking at this machine. As you say, downgrading to XP if you can get drivers for everything will be an interesting thing to try, but with the slow hard drive (are there 1.8″ PATA SSDs you can swap in?) and the larger screen (run a battery test with the screen off?) it’ll be hard to compare.

I guess we’ll just have to wait for a Poulsbo-based 10″ netbook to know better.