I would like to alert all of you to the following:

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.204-8967.aspx

£50 reduction on the Dell Latitude Mini 9 with Ubuntu and 8GB SSD. Plus a further reduction of 2.5% VAT at checkout.

Not bad at all.

Is that literally just for web browsing?

Pretty much. MSN and stuff.

Ahh OK that isn't to bad then Personally not a big fan of laptops but that looks pretty good for its money (would never use a laptop for gaming....AAAA the touchpad )

Only 8GB hard drive though...I would of said at-least 20gb would be better (not that your use that much for web browsing)

It's an SSD, which uses less power, but they don't come in large sizes (at least, not at sane prices).

I would probably use about 2GB of it.

Just purchased this today.

Update:


This is the laptop (pencil not included)


This is the bag for it (not to scale)

Hehe, nice comments about the pics Azcn

Hehe. Yeah, that laptop looks a bit too big for that bag.

Anyway! ... I'll be running this laptop with Ubuntu 8.04. There's no reason for me to switch to Windows XP, especially if it's just going to be used for browsing the web, a bit of word processing, and IM'ing.

I am expecting delivery of the laptop some time between 7am and 7pm on Monday, so there will not only be specks, but there will be picks.

I found out something about this laptop this morning - it is 100% silent all the time because it has no cooling fan

So how does it stay cool?

It ha the Atom 1.6GHz processor so it doesn't get very hot in the first place

So its silent but slow... hmmm... interesting.
Bad graphics card I presume if it doesn't cool itself all the time?

I fear the point has been missed somewhat.

It has no graphics card as such. It uses an Intel chip. So it is a chip, but it's nowhere near the performance of say... anything, really.

Its sole purpose is for web browsing, a bit of word processing, and maybe just a bit of pr0n on some dodgy sites.



It also has excellent compatibility with pretty much every Linux distro out there, and it runs Mac OS X (if you have a license) almost perfect excluding wireless and sound drivers, which are easy to install.

Hawke, it's a very cheap super-small laptop. They're called Netbooks and are designed for surfing the web and writing documents on the go. Maybe watching some vids.

Yeah, they have a GMA950 chip which is just fine for watching YouTube videos in full screen.

I have that chip in my laptop it still runs perfectly at most things.

It's a pretty old chip. I think the Dell Latitude D505 has it, that or a 945. But yeah it's fine for Internet. Probably not so great for Compiz Fusion but, well, I'll find out some time tomorrow!

Update: I'll be finding out at some point today.

Just received.

Tested?

Just booted up Ubuntu and it had a few updates to do. Dell's custom interface has already crashed on me, and the CD Dell provided reinstalls the Dell version of Ubuntu. I'm downloading the normal Ubuntu right now so I can whack it on there before doing anything else!

Requesting pictures of it's waterproofness in the bath and then a flame retardent test vs a flamethrower.

May get one if it passes those tests.

Heh, not a good start with their OS.

PICS AND SPECS!