Dell Inspiron Mini 10
At last Dell has understood that the 10 inch netbookat the same time. Dell is just trying to do this with options for upgrade such as integrated mobile broadband, GPS, built-in TV Tuner etc. At the same time they are delivering a roomy keyboard in a thin and light format. But does this notebook has any glitches that can make it a deal breaker? We have made a review to find the answer. Have a go. market is really lucrative and to take a good position in the market you have to be different from the crowd by introducing some new features and maintaining the quality standard
Design
It looks quite the same as the Mini 9 and the Mini 12 but only has a different size. The lid is coated with glossy coating and there are six color options you can choose from, namely black, white, green, pink, blue or red. The glossy back looks good though they are prone to fingerprints. They keyboard is black with a silver palm rest. It measures only 10.3 X 7.2 X 1.3 inches making it the most compact laptop of its class. The weight is also a minimal 2.6 pounds to be carried around the whole day.
Keyboard
We are really impressed with the size of the keyboard Dell provided with this netbook. It seems to be even bigger than the keyboard of Mini 12. The key sizes are full sized (even the right shift key) and there are all the function keys present. The key feedback is very good and typing at high speeds was no problem. The only better keyboard than this in the netbook category is the HP Mini 2140’s.Display
The system houses a 10.1 inch 1024 X 576 pixels glossy display. Though we normally see the 1024 X 600 displays in the netbooks, the shortage of those 24 pixels are hardly noticeable in real life. If you compare the screen side by side with a 1024 X 600 netbook, you’ll find the difference that the Mini 10’s screen showed a 2 or 3 lesser lines of text. The screen glare was there as normal with the glossy displays but the horizontal and vertical viewing angles were good.
Ports
The device has a nice set of ports on its sides. There is a Kensington lock slot, a USB Port, a 3 in 1 Memory Card Reader on the left side and an Ethernet jack, two more USB Port, an HDMI Port, a mic and headphone jack on the right side. We only miss the VGA Port here. Though they are providing an HDMI Port which is a nice thing to see in a netbook but that is only supported in newer displays and VGA Port is currently the most supported with almost all the display devices.Touchpad
We are equally disappointed with the touchpad as we were impressed with the keyboard. The touchpad seemes to be undersized and to save more space the left and right mouse buttons are put on the touchpad itself which makes it more awkward and uncomfortable to use. The touchpad also supports multitouch gestures but using those gestures right out of the box is not possible and it takes some time to be apt at making those gestures. In fact after trying it more than a few days I was not comfortable with it and turned the gesture settings off.
WebCam and Audio
The less said about these tow the better it will be. The 1.3 MP WebCam was nice to make a video call but there are some motion blur and a light greyish tint on the pictures it took. The built-in speakers were not loud enough and the sound was also tinny as expected.
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