$35 Buys You 25% Less Scrolling on a Netbook
After a long travel day to Las Vegas, I get to catch up on the news I missed yesterday. There’s plenty that happened; it usually does the day before a big mobile technology convention like CTIA. But what struck me outside of the mobile handset news floating around is Engadget’s bit on the rather inexpensive option Dell added to the Mini 10 netbook. For $35, you can move from a 1024×576 display to one with 1366×768 resolution. That’s a wee bit better than what you need for high definition 720p video and one heck of a good value for the price.
The higher resolution should also help when web browsing, which is the big value here in my opinion. While many sites fit nicely in 1,024 horizonal pixels, a little extra elbow room is nice when you need it. Plus, you’ll see over 25 percent more from a vertical perspective, too; that means 25 percent less scrolling up or down. To me, that’s huge and something that clearly sets the Dell Mini 10 apart from nearly all other 10-inch netbooks out there today.
HP just announced that the 2140 will also have the Hi-res screen starting April 1st.
So hopefully this will be a new trend for all netbook makers.
Still no 6 cell battery. Interested to see if HP hits soon with the higher res screen at a reasonable price and with the bigger battery.
Agreed, this is a game changer. I can’t believe some vendors are selling ones with a 576 pixel vertical resolution. That’s just not enough. Nice to see Dell moving the ball along with a higher res screen. If they would just start selling 6 cell batteries too, I’d be sold.
You still can’t upgrade from 1 GB of RAM, correct?
Pugrider
Yup, which is a deal breaker for me, I was really interested until I founf out that they making the mini 10 the same way as the mini 12. I would rather have 2 gb when windows 7 comes out. Now I guess its a waiting game for the apple netbook, usb 3.0, ddr3 ram in a netbook, and windows 7.