Comments on: The Inspiron Mini 12 goes on sale at Dell’s Web site http://blog.laptopmag.com/the-inspiron-mini-12-goes-on-sale-at-dells-website News and views on today's hottest laptops, cell phones, and other mobile devices. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:36:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: john laptop http://blog.laptopmag.com/the-inspiron-mini-12-goes-on-sale-at-dells-website/comment-page-1#comment-14451 john laptop Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:27:56 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/?p=7082#comment-14451 good news, i want to look it. good news, i want to look it.

]]> By: Fanfoot http://blog.laptopmag.com/the-inspiron-mini-12-goes-on-sale-at-dells-website/comment-page-1#comment-14326 Fanfoot Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:55:51 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/?p=7082#comment-14326 jkkmobile has been quite critical of the Poulsbo chipset, saying that in particular it can't play 720p video on any of the MIDs he has seen it on, and that it doesn't achieve the power savings it claims, at least so far. Have you tried playing 720p video on the Dell Mini 12? We know the existing N-series computers can handle this, even if they can't handle 1080i. Supposedly Poulsbo was going to enable 1080i video playback, but it doesn't sound like that has worked out too well so far. Also, still no XP drivers anywhere in site, either on Dell's website or Intel's. jkkmobile has been quite critical of the Poulsbo chipset, saying that in particular it can’t play 720p video on any of the MIDs he has seen it on, and that it doesn’t achieve the power savings it claims, at least so far.

Have you tried playing 720p video on the Dell Mini 12? We know the existing N-series computers can handle this, even if they can’t handle 1080i. Supposedly Poulsbo was going to enable 1080i video playback, but it doesn’t sound like that has worked out too well so far.

Also, still no XP drivers anywhere in site, either on Dell’s website or Intel’s.

]]> By: Fanfoot http://blog.laptopmag.com/the-inspiron-mini-12-goes-on-sale-at-dells-website/comment-page-1#comment-14306 Fanfoot Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:33:15 +0000 http://blog.laptopmag.com/?p=7082#comment-14306 We'll see if there's room in the netbook space for something this big/expensive. Personally I don't quite understand the point, but others may think of it more as a very cheap ultraportable and not mind the limitations as much. One of the interesting bits of tech on this platform though is Poulsbo, which is PRESUMABLY the reason behind the Vista switch given all the rumors of XP drivers not available, or not handling the power draw very well or something. It would be very helpful if you could clear this up. I assume we're going to see other Poulsbo-based netbooks in the near future. Also, if you could clarify other things. Apparently this laptop has the memory soldered down, and not upgradable. Apparently the initial Poulsbo designs were/are limited to a max of 1GB of RAM. But I've also seen rumors that later versions, perhaps even the one in this device, were updated to raise this limit to 2GB. Can you clarify any of this? I would love to see an article on the website or in the magazine about the future in netbooks that gets into some of this nitty gritty... the power draw of Atom vs. the chipsets, future options, dedicated graphics, Poulsbo's ability to accelerate video decode (and therefore 1080i video), standards for mini-flash drives/slots, support for IDE vs. SATA, etc etc We’ll see if there’s room in the netbook space for something this big/expensive. Personally I don’t quite understand the point, but others may think of it more as a very cheap ultraportable and not mind the limitations as much.

One of the interesting bits of tech on this platform though is Poulsbo, which is PRESUMABLY the reason behind the Vista switch given all the rumors of XP drivers not available, or not handling the power draw very well or something. It would be very helpful if you could clear this up. I assume we’re going to see other Poulsbo-based netbooks in the near future.

Also, if you could clarify other things. Apparently this laptop has the memory soldered down, and not upgradable. Apparently the initial Poulsbo designs were/are limited to a max of 1GB of RAM. But I’ve also seen rumors that later versions, perhaps even the one in this device, were updated to raise this limit to 2GB.

Can you clarify any of this? I would love to see an article on the website or in the magazine about the future in netbooks that gets into some of this nitty gritty… the power draw of Atom vs. the chipsets, future options, dedicated graphics, Poulsbo’s ability to accelerate video decode (and therefore 1080i video), standards for mini-flash drives/slots, support for IDE vs. SATA, etc etc

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