2011年3月3日星期四

Dell Mini 10V Review

Dell Mini 10V Review

The Dell Inspiron Mini 10v won't earn any awards for style; it won't earn any awards for features; but it's certainly challenging all netbook comers with regards to value.

For that pound-under-£200 tag, you obtain a netbook astonishingly an ideal offer centered inside the Mini 10, but using only a tiny 8GB solid-state generate in area of the difficult disk, an more mature pictures chipset, and Ubuntu Linux 8.04 operating system. wireless bluetooth may be stripped out too, also to the screen, while nevertheless all-too glossy and 10in in size, loses the edge-to-edge cyrstal glass effect.

We examined a sample offered with the Dixons stores set (DSG), who have bottled providing the Linux edition and have instead opted to fill glass windows XP alongside a normal 160GB difficult generate for storage. This Dell Inspiron Mini 10v sells for £279 from PC world or Currys, or £249 from fellow DSG producer Dixons.

In its favour, the overall economy Dell Inspiron Mini 10v design qualities an ideal offer more in common using the Dell Mini 9. And as we've discovered, this could make the Dell Inspiron Mini 10v a prime pick for upgrading to Mac OS X, requiring tiny extra work to acquire the Dell netbook completely operational inside the an ideal offer more capable operating system.

In our lab pace tests, the Dell Inspiron Mini 10v fell numerous factors at the rear of the Mini 10: we measured just 31 factors in WorldBench 6, in the direction of 35 factors to the Mini 10. We do note, however, the fact that Dell Inspiron Mini 10v failed to operate the Nero document copying test; that's also to Roxio film conversion and Autodesk rendering tests, which have confounded most Atom-powered netbooks to date.

Battery existence in the reliable Mini 10 was disappointing, scoring just 183 mins in MobileMark 2007 Productivity. the brand new Dell Inspiron Mini 10v couldn't even develop to three hours; as an ideal offer as 161 mins was the longest it could muster from its tiny 3-cell battery.

Nevertheless, we can't fault Dell to the worth it packs in. if you actually opt to the fast delivery version, you're receiving lots of hardware to the money, and among the best screens we've observed in the sub-£300 netbook.

But we also can't conclude devoid of reiterating those people frustrations: the Mini 10v's below-par battery existence and terrible trackpad are unnecessary in the modern netbook, and if you're ready to invest one more £20 inc VAT inside the N110 then we urge one to finish so.

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