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Invasion of the netbooks

Ok, my last article for a while on netbooks!  I found this quote in business week - its a decent article about the trouble netbooks are causing for the computer industry.  Anything that causes trouble for Microsoft makes for interesting reading if you ask me.  I would be really interested in hearing about Microsoft’s reaction [...]

Dell Inspiron Mini 9

Well finally my new dell mini arrived.  I bought the ubuntu model which until the 19th has another 20 pounds off, so 249 quid for a rather cute laptop.  The only problem I can see is the delivery time.  Initially they estimated a 2 week wait and then just before that 2 weeks was up [...]

Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Released in the UK

BASE
Inspiron mini 9 – (UK, 3)

OPERATING SYSTEM
Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition

HARDWARE SUPPORT
2yr Limited Warranty - Collect & Return

WEBCAM
Integrated 1.3MP Camera

LCD
8.9″ WSVGA (WLED) Truelife Display

MEMORY
1024MB 533MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM

HARD DRIVE
16GB Solid State Hard Drive

GRAPHICS CARD
Integrated Intel® Graphic Media Accelerator 950

WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY
Dell 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Mini-Card

PRIMARY BATTERY
4-cell 2200AHr Battery

BLUETOOTH
Dell Integrated Bluetooth Wireless card

Bundle
N09M0902

Processor
Intel ® Atom™ Processor [...]

Dell Diagnostic codes during POST

My laptop is now bricked.  Apparently it is an LCD failure.  It took me forever to find out what the flashing lights on my dell laptop meant as the docs seem to be missing from dell’s support site.  In order to make the laptop do the diagnosis I had to press the blue ‘Fn’ key [...]