I’m a wee bit behind on my posts and can’t believe it’s taken me this long to publish this post which I started on 30.Nov.08.
Julie was due for an upgrade on her personal computing power. As I reached the checkout on Dell.com for her rather snazzy new Dell Studio 1537 (in lime green!), I was offered the opportunity to add a Dell Inspiron Mini 910 netbook to my order. “How much you pay?”, I asked. “$173.85 with shipping & handling”, sez Michael Dell and crew. Sold! Here’s what came in the cutest little box ever:
- Intel Atom N270 CPU (1.6GHz w/ 512k L2 cache)
- 1GB DDR2 RAM
- 8.9″ Wide Screen WSVGA TL monitor
- 8GB Solid State Drive
- Ubuntu Linux
Make no mistake, this is not your son’s gaming power house PC. But it runs Ubuntu real nice, goes for hours unplugged, comes with Star Office out-of-the-box and boots up in 42 sec. Really. It does. Honest. With WiFi, a 10/100 Ethernet NIC, 3 x USB ports and a 15-pin VGA video output, it’s got the basics covered. It is sort of hard for me to touch type on, so I pretty much peck type when I use it during the occassional Saturday morning outing to Starbucks. My kids like to steal it and check on their Webkinz. Other than that, I haven’t found too many uses for it. I think I need to be more purposeful in taking it with me when I run random errands. If you’ve got ideas on how to use it more, I’m all ears.
So, without further ado, here are the unboxing pics. Enjoy!
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- Da Box
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- Da Packing
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- Da Gadget
