[geeks] My Dell Mini 9 (or Latitude 910) netbook arrived today...
Lionel Peterson
lionel4287 at verizon.net
Tue Sep 23 15:53:26 CDT 2008
It look snice, a small stpe nicer than the eee as fara as design goes
(the Asus eee looks - to me - like they went with very thick, chunky
plastic while the Dell is a bit more like a shrunken Inspiron. The
keyboard is fairly good (only spent a little bit of time on it), and
the packaging is tiny! (The box it came in is only a shade bigger than
the local yellow pages)
I'll have more to report after I spend a bit of time with it - I plan
on using WinXP Home for now, then seeing about getting the LInux ISO
and trying that before I decide how to proceed with this "laptop".
I'm going to try Open Office on it first, and if that seems too hard,
I'll investigate Office 2007 - the screen is nice, but the vertical
resolution is small (1024x600?)...
Oddly, I had 21 updates to install upon first boot - including a
revised network driver (Realtek Ethernet chip) from July, 2008...
Lionel
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