The good people at Engadget are reporting that you can now snag a 32GB SSD drive for your Dell Mini 9 netbook as an option. The current pricing is $100 in addition to any of the other options you choose. This is pretty steep when you consider the netbook only costs $349 to begin with. If you’re worried about additional battery life, you’d be better off with getting an external battery or put the money to getting the 6-cell battery which is $129.
Source: Engadget

MyDellMini.com has a forum point where someone added touch screen capabilities to their Dell Mini 9 netbook. They did it under the Ubuntu Linux operating system with parts purchased from eBay.
If your interested in doing something similar, you can find the forum thread here.
There’s actually a video of the finished product. You can find it below.

Netbooks are a pretty recent phenomenon.  Before netbooks became mainstream you had regular notebooks and UMPCs which were more like mini-tablet PCs than anything else.
Over the course of 2008, people searching for netbooks has grown dramatically.  It’s pretty surprising to see where the people are located that are searching for these ultraportable notebook computers.
Hawaii leads the way in searches with Washington in second place.  It’s more of a West Coast phenomenon for now with people in almost every state looking to get their hands on a Acer Aspire One or …

Dell used to be the number 1 global supplier of computers. Then the shift happened away from desktops to notebooks and there was a changing of the guard to HP. Since then Dell has taken a lot of steps to return back to their glory days. Their computers are now available in thousands of stores across the country when before you could only get a Dell from Dell.
They are also making some waves with their line of netbooks. They still have a tremendous amount of scale and have been receiving …

Electronista reports that you can now snag a 12″ Dell Mini netbook from their US site.  To get all of the weight savings you’ll have to pay at least $550 for it which is pretty disappoints when you can get a 10″ netbook for around $400.  The biggest difference aside from the screen real estate is the operating system.
Instead of getting Windows XP Home which runs well on a slower processor and less memory you get Windows Vista.  If you add an SD card and enable Ready Boost performance shouldn’t …

The UK is experience a big decline in their financial markets and their housing market haven’t been performing much better than what’s going on in the USA.
It makes perfect sense that to get the buzz out about Vodaphone subsidized netbooks by giving some away.
You blokes won’t be able to snatch one up from just any pub.  It starts on the 17th, and one will be giving away each day by 11 people scattered all around the country.
You can stay up to date here by following on twitter: http://twitter.com/vodafoneliveguy

It looks like the 2008 Black Friday deals aren’t going to be limited to the traditional brick and mortar companies.  Dell is going to be participating in the Black Friday festivities and has a treat for those willing to wake up bright and early on Friday.
They’ll be offering a Mini 9 for $299.  This is at least a $50 savings over their base configuration.  It remains to be seen if they’ll be throwing anything else in there for the price.
Is anyone planning on picking one of these up?
[Update: For Black …

Pointing fingers never feels good.  It goes back to being in grade school and never wanting to be the tattle tale.  Still when something isn’t right you have to correct it.  Liliputing.com, a great site for all things computer related, posted a story about QVC selling the Dell Mini 9 netbook for $529 which should only be $449 by their count.

The problem is that when you look at what QVC is selling you realize that it actually isn’t a bad deal, as much as QVC usually seems like a ripoff …

First isn’t always best, just ask Asus.  They took lead in promoting their Eee PC last year.  Now Acer has come on strong to promote their Acer Aspire One.  So much so that Acer is looking to ship 6 million netbooks which is more than the 5 million Asus is looking to ship in 2008.
Acer has been pricing themselves very competitively in the market and they are one of the few netbooks which can be had with a 6 cell battery standard instead of having to pay for one separately.  …