Laptop Dell Inspiron Mini 9 - Product Review and Spec

Dell remains a simple design, glossy black exterior. 8.9-inch screen size is seen sunny and nice. Since most people are looking for a cheap, light secondary laptop for basic computing needs like web surfing and e-mail, they move to the direction of the UMPC. Seeing this trend, Dell participate in this competition with the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 (directly with the version of XP with E-Value code), to compete with other products such as the EeePC, ASUS 900 HP 2133 Mini-Note PC, Acer Aspire One, MSI Wind, and Lenovo IdeaPad S10. Slightly lighter than the MSI Wind because the screen is 10 inches, and weighs 3.2-pounds. Mini 9 measures 6.8 by 9.2 by 1 inches, slightly larger than the ASUS EeePC 900 (6.6 by 8.7 by 0.8 inches) but more compact than the Acer Aspire One (6.7 by 9.7 by 1 inches) . 2.3-pound frame is in line with other UMPC.

Laptop Dell Inspiron Mini 9

While from its feature set, the Mini 9 is equivalent to another similar: This laptop has three USB ports, 4-in-1 media card reader (SD, MS, MS Pro, MMC), VGA-out, Ethernet port, and a webcam1.3-megapixel camera.

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 - Behind

Despite not having a built-in ExpressCard slot like HP and Lenovo IdeaPad S10, Dell has an empty slot that can be found when we opened the lid on the basis of the Mini 9, which is labeled "WWAN", although this was not announced officially.

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 - Dimension

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 uses Intel's 1.6-GHz Atom N270 as a processor and a solid-state drive, so it is quite adept at running Windows and the energy consumption remains small. Dell 1GB maximum memory is offered in this configuration. But that does not mean you can not upgrade. We know that the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 loads Windows in about 30 seconds and fires up Microsoft Works in 8 seconds. And also, can copy more than an album worth of music (77MB) in about 7 seconds.

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 - Left Side

However, the combination of the Atom processor and 1GB of memory gives you more than enough power to settle any general-purpose task, whether to run MS Office 2007, encoding video, running Tunes, watching YouTube, or playing online games like Poker. The Mini 9 has the horsepower to run videoconferencing, but you also need a good broadband connection. Dell offers Ubuntu 8.04 Linux configuration, with a 4GB SSD.

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 - Right Side

The Mini 9 has a 32-Wh battery Mini 9's (four-cell), the battery is greater than the battery and battery MSI Wind Acer One's 24-Wh.

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 - Front view

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Specs

CPU	Intel Atom N270(1.6GHz,512Kb L2Cache,533MHz FSB)
Operating System	Windows XP Home Edition OS/Ubuntu SP3
RAM	1GB DDR2 533Mhz SDRAM
Chipset	Intel 965PM/GM Express Chipset
Graphich Card	Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 (64Mb)
Screen Size	8.9 Inch WSVGA Glossy LED Backlit
Display	Widescreen 1024x600
Hard Drives	Up to 16GB configured with a Solid State drive
LAN	Integrated 10/100 LAN(RJ45
Video Connector	15 Pin
Audio Jacks	1-Line Out, 1 Mir-in
Card Slots	4-in-1 Media Card Reader
Wi-Fi	802.11b/g Mini Card
Bluetooth	Yes
Weight	1 Kg
Dimension	232mm x 27.2mm x 31.7mm
WebCam	1.3 Megapixel
Primary Optical Drive	External
Type	General Purpose, Ultraportable, Value, Netbook
Battery	Li-ion 14.8V Battery (4 cell) 32 WHr
Tech Support	1 year parts and labor

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Toshiba Satellite T115 Specification & Review

Toshiba Satellite T115 nice appearance at first sight, but the glossy plastic casing is a fingerprint magnet is horrible, so you'll want to keep the cloth handy if you're distracted by the stain. The 11.3 x 8.3 x 1.4-inch notebook is only a hair larger and heavier than the Acer Aspire 1410. Despite the plastic body, T115 does not feel or look cheap. He struck us as very solid, but slim. Plaid design extends across the touchpad. Under the seat bar length mouse design that flows into a row of status lights. Housing for 6-cell battery to increase the unit about half an inch, resulting in sloping gently. Although thin design, this notebook has a hot exhaust system is quite good. Toshiba T115 touchpad surface measuring 3.0 x 1.5 inches, equivalent to a wide touchpad on the Toshiba NB205 mini. It's just a little rough. Toshiba Satellite Notebook Touchpad T115 supports multitouch.

Toshiba Satellite T115

Toshiba Satellite T115 Specification

CPU	1.3-GHz Intel Pentium SU2700
Operating System	MS Windows 7 Home Premium (32-bit)
RAM >> Size	2GB
>> Up to	4GB
Hard Drive >> Size	250GB
>> Speed	5,400rpm
>> Type	SATA Hard Drive
Display Size	11.6
Native Resolution	1366x768
Optical Drive	None
Graphics Card	Intel GMA 4500M
Video Memory	828MB
Wi-Fi	802.11b/g/n
Bluetooth	None
Mobile Broadband	None
Ports (excluding USB)	Ethernet; HDMI; Headphone; Microphone; VGA
USB Ports	3
Card Slots	6-1 card reader
Warranty/Support	One-year limited/24/7 toll-free phone
Size	11.3 x 8.3 x 1.4 inches
Weight	3.4 pounds

Toshiba Satellite T115 Review

As expected on the 11.6-inch system, Notebook keyboard is close to full size with a button in middle relief. Shortened the right Shift key is placed-though really cram in a dedicated Page Up and Page Down buttons. The Enter key also smaller than usual, and the Alt and Ctrl on the right are very small that can hardly be used. On the left side Alt, Fn key and the Windows are all very thin, so this is not useful for those already familiar with keyboard shortcuts.

The large but unified the mouse buttons on this notebook is a drawback. Bar nice and long, but to get a good response. we must use the outer edge, this is a bit stiff and noisy.

Toshiba Satellite T115 Screen

For the screen, this notebook-sized 1366 x 768 pixels according to screen size 11.6-inch glossy design and looks sharp. Bezel around the screen too shiny, which means that even when we are surfing in cyberspace, there are flashes of reflection in the bezel and sometimes even on the screen.

Toshiba Satellite T115 Port

Toshiba T115-Left Side

Then for the T115 speaker is located under the front edge of the notebook, it does not produce sound impressive, but the audio came out loud and flat, and the volume is not too big. The spread of the port is what would expect to find on a netbook-sized system. HDMI and VGA ports along the left side line with a card reader 6-in-1 memory. You'll also find a USB port that can charge gadgets like cell phones even when the notebook is in sleep mode.

Toshiba T115-Right Side

On the right side there are two regular USB port, Ethernet, power, headphone and microphone jacks. Passing the cursor over a thin bar at the top left of the screen T115 will pull down the tab to the built-in webcam with 0.3 megapixel camera capable of capturing the dark image and video.

Toshiba Satellite T115 CPU & Memory (RAM)

This Notebook  uses very low voltage processor 1.3-GHz Intel Pentium processor and 2GB of RAM included notched PCMark Vantage score of 1453. this shows that this Notebook beat the average netbook (1107) but came in behind other ULV system, including Gateway and Acer Aspire EC1430u 1410. The biggest difference between the Toshiba T115 and above the two ultraportables, Toshiba T115 using single-core processor, while the Gateway and Acer machines, both using two cores.

Toshiba Satellite T115 Operating System

For system operation, this Notebook uses MS Windows 7 Home Premium (32-bit), and only takes 1 minute and 45 seconds. It's 45 seconds longer than average. Then, 250GB, 5400-rpm hard drive that is used offers plenty of space for documents and media. Toshiba T225 takes 4 minutes and 23 seconds to transfer the 4.97GB folder of media, is mixed for a transfer rate of 19.4 Mbps. That's far behind EC1430u Gateway (22.2 Mbps) and the average ultraportable (20.9 Mbps), but still parallel with the Aspire 1410 (19.6 Mbps).

Toshiba Satellite T115 Graphic

This Notebook uses Intel GMA 4500M graphics on 3DMark06 score 635, lower 200 points below average (876). However, the Toshiba T115 did not fare as bad when compared with similar ULV system.

Toshiba Satellite T115 Wireless Card

This throughput Realtek 802.11b/g/n wireless card, at 15 feet from the router, is a strong 24.7 Mbps. Above the ultraportable average score by more than 4 Mbps (20.5 Mbps), Toshiba T115 which handily beat the Gateway (20.3 Mbps) and the Acer Aspire 1410 (19.9 Mbps) in this range. Its score of 50-feet too strong 18.3 Mbps, again besting the average (17.3 Mbps) and Gateway (14.9 Mbps), which is slightly lower under the Aspire 1410 (18.7 Mbps).

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