Dell baffles buyers with new netbook - Computerworld

Dell has announced a 'new' netbook, the Inspiron Mini10v, an eerily similar model to the company's previous offering, the plain Mini 10. The obvious difference is price, which drops to £200 in the cheapest Ubuntu Linux version.

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Dell has announced a 'new' netbook, the Inspiron Mini10v, an eerily similar model to the company's previous offering, the plain Mini 10 . The obvious difference is price, which drops to £200 in the cheapest Ubuntu Linux version. The price reduction has been achieved by stripping out the odd feature that most netbook buyers would hardly have used, specifically the HDMI interface, and by using a different graphics chipset, the plain Intel GMA 500 rather than the equally basic Intel GMA 945GSE.

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