Having looked inside the Mini 9 and been told that it has no fan there is no way to put a HDD in it. That said, don’t be surprised to hear about a Mini 10 or 11 with a bigger screen and more room inside.

They need to offer a HDD option. I also think that they’re overpriced for their feature set, but Dell usually offers discounts on their products of about 10-30%.

One of the problems that I have with it is the same problem that Kevin has talked about before. If you have looked at the pictures of the keyboard the right shift key is in the wrong place and is extremely tiny. That is a deal breaker for me.

$349: 512MB RAM, 4GB SSD, Ubuntu
$399: 512MB RAM, 8GB SSD, XP Home ($424 w/ 1GB)
$449: 1GB RAM, 16GB SSD, XP Home ($469 w/ BT)

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-inspiron-9?cs=19&s=dhs&ref=homepg

I have found another link (From UMPCportal.com) that has the Ubuntu option, but still doesn’t lower the price.
It also allows the bluetooth to now be an option to add, not subtract and a couple other things.
I can’t seem to find the option on the Studio 15 page to add the $99 Mini.

Kevin,
I got the same price you did. All I could take off was the bluetooth to lower the price at all.

I agree with other comments here that I think they have priced themselves out of the game. I would rather spend less money on the Aspire One and get more storage (I need to have all my tunes, a couple movies, dual boot, etc).

Even at this price, (UK £299), I’m still going to wait for an assessment of the SSD performance, keyboard quality and the brightness of the screen especially compared with the MSI Wind before purchasing so it’s not an impulse buy for me.

So are any of us going to give up our laptops for one of these? You have used the HTC Advantage and already spent the money. Are you going to put that on the trash heap for one of these? Tell us more what we are sacrificing to buy half a computer at more than half the price, please.

Dell did the one thing I was worried about. They priced this thing too high. This is an also-ran device.

If they had hit that 299 mark, my ears would have perked up.

Base Inspiron mini 9 – (UK, 3)
Operating System Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition
Memory 1024MB 533MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM
Video Card Integrated Intel® Graphic Media Accelerator 950
Hard Drive 16GB Solid State Hard Drive
Wireless Dell 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Mini-Card
Bundle N09M0902
Standard Warranty 1Yr Limited Warranty – Collect & Return
Extended Service 1Yr Limited Warranty – Collect & Return
Bluetooth Dell Integrated Bluetooth Wireless card
Order Information Inspiron Mini 9 Order – UK
Primary Battery 4-cell 2200AHr Battery
Processor Intel ® Atom™ Processor N270 (1.60GHz, 533MHz, 512K cache)
Camera Integrated 1.3MP Camera
LCD 8.9″ WSVGA (WLED) Truelife Display

Oops, I missed it. I do wonder what kind of SSDs Dell is using. With a 16 GB cap on them the first thing many are going to want to do is put a HDD in there. 16 GB is way too small for WinXP.

Yes, the short list and the $99 deal is in the post above.

Dell also has a deal where you can order a “full” laptop from a short list and get the Mini for just $99 according to the Direct2Dell blog.