Comments on: Dell Inspiron Mini’s Guts Reveal Upgrade Opportunities

By: Burk

Burk — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:57:04 +0000

@mel

Actually, as long as you don’t break anything you will never void your warranty by taking it apart. You can strip the whole thing and reassemble, it will still be under warranty. I can’t even find a warranty seal on mine.

@Austen

Mydigitaldiscount.com has three Runcore SSDs sized 32gb, 64gb, and 128gb that fit wonderfully in the Mini 9/Vostro. I upgraded to the 32gb a few months back and it was very easy. There are a bunch of “how to” videos available on youtube and jkkmobile if you are uneasy about doing it yourself.

By: Austen

Austen — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:18:04 +0000

So, has anyone found a 16GB ssd that does fit?

By: mel

mel — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:43:28 +0000

just buy one and when I want to upgrade the RAM I have to bring mine to the service center. They said it will break the warranty seal so I shouldn’t just open the case myself.

By: colten

colten — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:50:27 +0000

The WWAN slot will not take mini PCIe SSD HDD. If you put your SSD HDD into that slot, it won’t boot.

By: jan

jan — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:13:52 +0000

Maybe, if you buy the Kingston 4GB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134685

Not cheap though ($315)

By: admin

admin — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:04:09 +0000

Only to 2GB

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:28:09 +0000

Can the Dell Mini Inspiron only be upgraded to 2 gb RAM or can I go to a 4 gb?

By: Daniel K

Daniel K — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:01:23 +0000

Nick,

I just got one of the new ones and took a look inside. It seems I have the newer type of motherboard with the WWAN card slot removed. All they took off was the minipci header, and I bet if you could find some somewhere, you could easily solder it back on and see if the bus is still active. Thats what I plan to do at least.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:10:47 +0000

They obviously removed the WWAN when they worked out they could make money by supplying it only as an option with a contract with a Phone provider. I for one am really annoyed as I now have wasted space and do not have the ability to install a WWAN card now or in the future.

By: Sue

Sue — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:22:22 +0000

Guess what, Dell apparently changed motherboards, you no longer get the open pcie slot. Dell may very well get mine back I haven’t decided yet. even if you changed plans there’s no reason to emasculate the motherboard that was just nasty and could even be called the old bait and switch.