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derekbez Jul 4, 2009

Originally I ordered an Asus 901, but after 6 weeks of no stock, I cancelled and bought the Dell Mini 9 on the day it was released in the UK. Likes: Small size - it could fit into my camera bag quite comfortably. Light weight - ditto above, and it is comfortable to hold at odd angles with one...

druce Jul 2, 2009

It has all of the features I like about a hacker's device: Good driver support, cheap price, easy access to the most important upgradable hardware. Since my purchase, I upgraded the memory (can be updated to 2gb, despite some of the vendor's claims of 1gb in order to qualify for XP),...

twentw Jul 7, 2009

I actually own 2 of these - both 16gb models, and I have had a chance to use them extensively. My review may not be as kind as some of the others here. The good: Size is just about perfect for me. I don't care to lug around a big laptop, and I'm not doing much more than email, using...

Kace Jul 2, 2009

Got mine on a whim when it went on sale and hearing all the Hackintosh discussions. The linux setup which came with the computer worked really well but I was set on turning mine into a Mac. The installation was really easy despite Ryan's comments saying it was complicated. Finding the...

sugar2k Apr 21, 2010

I love my black Dell Inspiron Mini 9. It has run well with Crunchbang Linux, Kubuntu and my latest O/S is Ubuntu 10.04 UNR (Ubuntu Netbook Release) in beta at present but running well. Ubuntu is cost free and open source and this O/S has an outstanding user community. My Mini 9 has had...

solomania9 Sep 16, 2009

Installed Leopard on it surprisingly easily (haven't tried Snow Leopard yet though) and overall I've been pleased. The speed is OK - pretty relative to some white MacBooks I've used - and the screen is small but sharp. My only complaints are the small SSHD and the tiny quirky...

macaroni Jan 27, 2010

My dell mini will show you how! All time favorite and TRUE netbook. Not in production any more, but a handful available at the mydellmini forum for sale box. Worth every penny. SSD 's only, but that's the beauty of netbooks. If you really want one check here:...

jeffburg Jan 21, 2010

I sold my 20" imac and 24" monitor and moved from San Francisco to London to study. I am a pretty big power user when it comes to my Macs. I am running OS X Snow Leopard on this Dell and it is my only computer in England. It has easily supported my needs the entire school year. Its fast...

AdamGurri Jul 2, 2009

Before you decide if you want the Mini 9, you have to be ready for the experience of owning a netbook in general. Netbooks are small, light, and cheap--but with the reduced price also comes less memory, less RAM, and a less powerful processor. If you're ready to accept the trade-off that...

Cruleworld Jul 1, 2009

On March 6th I ordered a Dell Mini 9 using my birthday money. Before I bought one I did my research a read a good bit of info from MyDellMini.com. I ordered mine from the outlet like was recommended. Ordering: I would recommend this form of ordering to anybody. There is one big advantage to...

JeDoute Sep 14, 2009

This unit surprised me. I set it up for my wife, who really needed a very small computer to carry with her. This one came running Ubuntu in 512MB of memory on a 4GB SSD. Adding RAM and a bigger internal drive made a big difference in the performance. I partitioned the SSD with 14GB for...

pika2000 Sep 15, 2009

Pros: -9" is the sweet spot for a netboook size. Very usable, even in tight spots. -Pretty light -Uses SSD, thus no worries of hard-drive crashing on the go. -RAM and SSD are user upgradeable -Comes in Linux or XP flavors -Runs Windows 7 fairly okay, even with only 1GB RAM and stock 16GB...

finalbroadcast Aug 15, 2009

Trying to find an OS X netbook, I went with the Dell Mini 9. In retrospect I should have just kept with the 12 ibook. This isn't a bad system, especially when I opted for 2GB Ram and a 64GB SSD. I use this for E-Mail and web browsing, and found it was more a novelty than actual computer....

dannybolabo Jul 2, 2009

Pros: - No fan + SSD = no moving parts! Which means this is one quiet netbook. - Super light, extremely portable. - Real world battery life is good, 3 - 4 hrs of normal use (web browsing, music playback etc) - Keyboard is goodish (for a netbook, it's as good as you're gonna get)...