The Official Dell Inspiron Mini 12 Thread!!!

I was able to get 5.5-6 hours of battery life on my 1000H using WLAN, and screen brightness around 50%.

 

The Inspiron 1210 i have seen today was very thin en for my 'feeling' lighter than the inspiron 910. this one came with a 1.8 inch 80gb hdd(samsung) 1.3 megcam and vista home basic. I only have seen it for a moment, but it don,t looks like the 910 at all.

 

pcgek, where and when did you see one?

My guess is that Dell is holding off the release for a week week and upstaging whatever Apple rolls out with on the 14th.

 

With respect to the previous site with release dates Dell's actual release dates have been about a week behind. So we should see something about next week.

 

In Holland

 

In Holland.
The 1210 make,s no noise, even the hdd i could not hear.

(sorry for the double post)

 

pcgek
ur thoughts on the screen since it is ccfl not led
also is the screen as thin as a led

 

Nice, thanks for the information!


Cin.

 

pcgek,

As surefire asked, what did you think of the screen?

 

PCgek, where in Holland do you live, because I'm from Tilburg and I'd love to get a look and feel of the Dell i1210!

 

Ugh too many cool laptops coming out. I can justify having two ... but no more than that haha.

 

any news on inpiron 16 or inpiron xps 16?
i want a 16" with mobile quad.

 

Great news.

Do you know if it will be released in Holland?

 

Hi, i think that the release in Holland wil take a while. The person who was the owner of the Inspiron 1210 (azerty keyboard)was a frenchmen, that was on a visit in Holland.

I asked him for a picture of the 1210, but he refused to let me make one .

 

Live near by Groningen. I think the did a nice job on the i1210, i had it in my hands a time or 3, and i was confused about the weight(in a positive way).

 

Did you notice any other colors??

So, it should be pretty light..it felt comfy for you?


Cin

 

Sorry, no information about the screen. All i no it was clear and shiny. and no info about resolution

 

You mean the outsitecolor of the 1210 ? it,s greymetallic/black.

I have seen 3x usb, external monitorconnector, cardreader. And ( i,m not sure anymore) headfones , microfoonconnector.

 

Yup any other colors outside of the basic black!

Like Red , Pink, blue, etc

Cin

 

Pretty standard stuff.

 

I would not be surprised if Tesco has most of the specs right: http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.204-8424.aspx

1.33 GHz Atom seems unlikely though. Hope it will be standard 1.6 GHz.

 

Intel Atom Z530: http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLB6P

 

Right, probably a mistake by Tesco because they say: Processor Speed 1.33 GHz

That would mean it's a Z520. But seems more likely it's 1.6GHz Z530.

Z520: http://processorfinder.intel.com/Details.aspx?sSpec=SLB2H

 

What about chipset and such? Still GMA 900/950?

 

Probably same as Mini Inspiron 9.

 

Phil do you think its true?? Just wondering because of the *mistakes* that Tesco has made, recently on their site!!! If so, what do you think of the processor?

Cin

 

I guess it will be 1.6GHz. I have not seen any netbooks with the 1.33GHz Atom yet.

But even the 1.6GHz Atom is weak. A four year old Intel Pentium M 1.6GHz is quite a lot faster. But the Atom is just enough for surfing the web and watching a movie. So it will do.

Too bad though that the harddrive is not 2.5". 1.8" drives are slow, expensive and have small capacity.

 

Thanks! And, I think that it will prob's have to do for capacity of the I12.

I agree, more HD would be very nice! But, we will see when it finally rolls out!

Cin

 

The Tesco page may be confused, but it's pretty accurate by Dell's standards

Dell did originally spec both 1.3 and 1.6 Silverthornes for the 'E Slim' as it was called. I really can't see much difference between the processors apart from clock speed, though the Diamondville N270 used in the Mini9 was originally touted as a cut down version of the Silverthorne.

I must've missed something. Didn't know abot the 1.8" drive. Seems a daft idea to me.

EDIT: Since the 1.8" is on the Dell spec sheet, I must have forgotten.... Or maybe I just can't believe anyone would make that choice!!

 

Processor
Type
Intel® Silverthorne
CPU
Intel® Atom™ Z520 or Z530
L2 Cache
512 KB
External bus frequency
533 MHz

System Chipset
Intel LPIA (Low Power Intel Architecture) Poulsbo US15W
Data bus width
64 bits
DRAM bus width
single channel
64-bit buses
Processor address bus width
32 bits
Flash EEPROM
1 MB

Video
video controller
Intel LPIA Poulsbo
video memory
8 MB system memory (shared)
LCD interface
LVDS

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins1210/en/sg/M438JA00HR.pdf

The I1210 specifications are listed starting on page46 of the .pdf that was posted in this thread about half-dozen pages ago

 

The 1.8" drive was confirmed by user pcgek as well, who has seen the 1210 in real life.

I agree it's a strange choice, but may result in a slimmer laptop.

Maybe Dell had a lot of old stock around.

 

It is a strange choice...but a nice, slimmer laptop..a good thing, indeed!

Dell, having old stock around..nah! LOL..



Cin

 

Yeah, its a small HD alright...

 

Yes, it surely is! Thanks!


Cin

 

here is a link to the HDD product page http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/productmodel.do?group=72&type=60&subtype=68&model_cd=300#

 

Nice! Thanks for sharing, also!

Now..just for the release!

Cin

 

I'm not too sure about that. D430 just got replaced by E4200. E4200 is only available with SSD.

And guess what harddrives did the D430 and D420 use? You got it... 1.8" drives, 40GB, 60GB and 80GB, 4200rpm. The same ones as in 1210.

But maybe it wasn't Dell who had the old stock, but Samsung.

 

Yes...so maybe Samsung?

Are you going to get the I12 when it's officially available? I like both the I9 and I12...


Cin

 

Not sure yet. I12 sounds tempting but new Macbook for $799 sounds even better. I'm in no hurry

9 inch would definetly be too small for me. I had a 11" for a while, 12" is now my minimum.

 

Ahh yes..the Macbook! I'm still going with the I9 or the I12, waiting on the I12 to see the the final *product* I'm being a tad fussy in what I want out of either..And, I guess I don't mind waiting a bit longer



Cin

 

I'm sure they could fit a 2.5" drive into a slimline I12 if they wanted to. Dell made the I9 smaller than the other netbooks and SSD only. If they ever thought they were losing market share to netbook with HDDs, I doubt they'd get a 2.5" drive in it.... but a 1.8" drive may be do-able.

Maybe the idea is 1.8" drives for netbooks to differentiate them from 'regular' notebooks. As long as the cost is right 1.8" drives give enough storage for a netbook.... excet for the quad booters!

 

Yea a 800 mac sounds nice, I kinda wanna try out mac. Of course I would still need another pc with windows because withdrawals are bad

 

dell has taken down the support page or maybe it is just temp unavailable
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins1210/

 

I was able to get in...I bet it was just *temporarily down*


Cin

 

r u sure!
'cause i still cant get in thru that link
how did u get in?

 

I clicked the link you provided, and then clicked English..and there I was in the manual

Sorry's if you cant get in


Cin

 

maybe some servers/routers are down in my area!

dell is misbehaving

they shud release this thing already!

 

Yes, maybe it's the server/routers in your area

Or, Dell is taunting you! hee hee

A release this morning..would make me very happy! :yes:


Cin

 

Earlier the link did not work for me, now it's working again.

 

Hmmm, it's usually my work computer that has issues ~ and I could get in all the times I went thru the link

Well, at least it appears to be working again for most!


Cin