Dell Inspiron Mini 10v - Review - first Hands On

Today I got a Dell Inspiron Mini 10v (Inspiron 1011) with Intel Atom N270, 6-cells battery for 289 Euros (special offer at Lidl, a german discounter). Until yesterday I was struggling between EEE PC 1005HA and Mini 10v, then I decided for the Dell Mini 10v, why?
Both netbooks got a similar price tag and feature-set, actually the EEE PC 1005HA got more features, the new Intel Atom N280 and is easier to upgrade. I think that both are fantastic netbook, at the end I decided for the Mini 10v especially because the Mini 10v is quiet even under heavy CPU load while the EEE PC 1005HA can get a bit louder under stress.
Keep tuned on eeejournal, I'll post very soon more on my experience with the Dell Mini 10v (Inspiron 1011).

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Dual Core Netbook (Intel Atom 330 processor) in 2009

A new dual core netbook announced for the japanese market, unfortunately the processor isn't new, "just" the well known Intel Atom 330, clocked at 1.6GHz. The Atom 330 isn't popular in netbooks for two/three reasons

1. it isn't as power optimized as Atom N270/N280
2. higher price than N270/N280
   
3. if I well remember because of Microsoft policy restrictions: you don't get the Windows XP netbook OEM price with a dual core processor.

Unfortunately Intel isn't going to release a new dual core Atom (for netbooks) this year. The announced Pineview processors. The main news is the new chipset architecture (integration of the graphics core in the processor), no big news for the processor core itself, the Pinewiew processors reuse the Atom N280 core.
A single core for netbooks, Atom N450, and the Atom D510, dual core successor of the Atom 330.

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