Dell Unveils the Slick Mini 10 Netbook at CES

[JMcEntegart]

We’ve already talked about how this year, CES was all about netbooks and mobile computing. We’re a little bored by it all at this stage but there’s no doubt that netbooks, like the tech industry, are constantly changing and improving.

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[falchard]

I agree its nice that the netbooks are branching out of the budget laptop market and going into the $500+ range with a laptop using under performing parts when you can get a much better performing laptop for the same price. Not to mention a bigger screen.

 

[Regulas]

Let me guess, Dell has bogged the little thing down with Vista Business edition or even Vista (Bloatware). XP on it would surprise me.

 

[nottheking]

The sad thing about a lot of netbooks is that they don't really need a current OS, yet it's often enough included just because the OEM does so by default, and hence that increases the price. Really, from my experience, high program and hardware support isn't exactly a necessity for a netbook, so much as, say, low resource cost. Plus, of course, the use of something like a Linux distro would slash a good chunk off of the price.