Is this Dell mini 9 as good as my acer aspire?

Marty_J

If you ask for three opinions in here, you'll get four.

Enjoy your computer.

[Deleted User]

I have the Dell Mini 9 and it's very, very good.

Win XP took up about 3.5GB, leaving ~4GB free for applications so you could easily put MS Office on there and keep documents on that drive. You still have the flexibility of adding an 8 or 16GB SDHC card into it for extra storage.

Replacing the SSD was a case of taking 8 screws out, very easy to do and you could fetch a 16GB SSD on Ebay for about £40-£50 if you wanted to extend it that way

inmypocketnottheirs

I notice that in Tesco Extra they have the Dell Mini 9 with 160 gb hard drive for £299, the same price I had paid for my Samsung NC10. I bought the Samsung over the SSD Mini 9, as I wanted a proper HD, which the NC10 has. It's a great machine, and does everything I require of it. Personally I would go for XP, with a HD over an SSD anytime. But thats just me...

leachyd

Flo,

I have one myself and it fine for day to day browsing. I expanded the memory with an HDSD card for saving any large files (xp takes up about 5 of the available 8 gb, so not much space left for storage. Do you have mobile broadband too? I think it's great for that as its full integrated etc.

Hope you get on ok with it

[Deleted User]

leachyd wrote: »

(xp takes up about 5 of the available 8 gb, so not much space left for storage.

You can free up an additional ~1GB by disabling Hibernation.

leachyd

anewhope wrote: »

You can free up an additional ~1GB by disabling Hibernation.

Great tip, thanks!

Marty_J

If you right click on the recycle bin and select properties, you can change the amount of space reserved for it. It might not make much difference on such a small drive, but you should be able to free up a few extra hundred megabytes.

FloFlo

Well Dell just upped the discount from £55 to £100 and I have bought a mini 10 for £174 inc vat and delivery with 1g memory and 160gb hd and XP. So should be sorted now, just have to cancel the mini 9 lol.
Thanks everyone.

Donnie

FloFlo wrote: »

Well Dell just upped the discount from £55 to £100 and I have bought a mini 10 for £174 inc vat and delivery with 1g memory and 160gb hd and XP. So should be sorted now, just have to cancel the mini 9 lol.
Thanks everyone.

That's the ticket.

Maybe you can provide a link for other interested parties.

FloFlo

Donnie wrote: »

That's the ticket.

Maybe you can provide a link for other interested parties.

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