UK retailer sells colored Dell Mini 10 for no extra charge
May 7, 2009 by: admin
The Inspiron Mini 10 from Dell, is available from the Dell website in white or black for £299, including VAT and shipping. Or if you prefer it in blue, red, pink or green, from the Dell website there’s a £19 upgrade fee. UK retailer PC World has received shipments in store and for online orders of the colored netbooks and the great news is, if you purchase from PC World it won’t cost you any more.
You can pick up any of the colors, black, white, pink, red, green or blue for the same standard price of £299. Their website states that you save £30 off the price of the netbook, so how long the offer will last isn’t stated, but it’s definitely available right now.
Well, that’s good that at least they aren’t changing extra to get the color you want right?
ked great. One thing to mention, I did install the 2GB RAM chip (the 667 MHz one), which went in easily and seems to be working well.
So, that’s it. The Asus is working like a charm as I sit on my front porch in Sunny California, typing this review. I just need to do something about this @!?# glossy screen!
Must shop for a matte film.
This netbook is amazing. I usually do not write reviews here but I must make an exception for this little netbook. I have been using it for the past 3 weeks and it doesn’t stop amazing me. The portability, compactness apart, the machine seems to have excellent build quality like others before me wrote about. Connecting to Wi-Fi is effortless with no dropped connections. I’m planning to upgrade to 2GB RAM but for the moment, the 1GB seems to be good enough. Haven’t faced any machine sluggishness with the limited applications I use which are email, web browsing, photo and music management. Even after hours of usage, the netbook underside doesn’t heat up as much as my 13″ Macbook. The fan also seems to be extra silent. I haven’t tested the battery life as yet since I tend to use the power source whenever I can. But getting 6-7 hrs life out of this little machine seems very much possible.
Overall, this little netbook is good value for the higher price you pay for it. I had the Asus 1000HA in mind previously but this one was easily available here in India. I had also read the rave reviews about this product here which titled my decision towards buying this one. No regrets about buying this one. Highly recommended.
UPDATE 4/22/09 – Replaced the 1GB RAM with 2GB. The process was a breeze and is fairly simple.Have been using the netbook basically for web-surfing since then, so cannot comment on overall speed increase but I did find a considerable difference while opening some applications and files. A recommended upgrade.