wahlau's online hut

many names were given/speculated since a month plus ago - but today it is live - the Dell Inspiron Mini 9. It is not only somehow found in US sites - in Germany's dell site you can already order the black one with very limited customization choices.

a colleague had been waiting for it, but he can't order it yet - he wanted an Ubuntu version of it but it is not available. Funny, in the US site (follow the link from Gizmodo) (which is somehow live now even though it is not yet 4th of September there) you can have it for USD349 with Ubuntu installed. Here in Germany it will cost you 369Euro with almost everything fixed - Windows XP, 1GB ram, 16GB SSD (a big plus that explains the price perhaps?) and webcam.

i am now considering, whether to trade the 701 for a 9" model with better battery life (hint: Eee PC 901). I noticed it is a trend to have a netbook that last 3+ hours. WHy can't manufactors exploit the possibiltites like offering 6 cells as standard? i really hope to have a netbook with at least 6 hours battery life, so that i can just go out for a whole day long, and don't really need to be bothered about having to charge it like how i need to do with my notebook all this while.

I think the best time to get yourself a netbook, is around Christmas this year - more models will be out, and some models will be reasonably priced. and til then, you will also have more test reviews and also 3rd party accesories. Perhaps i will just wait :)