Dell has announced in the U.K. a 'new' netbook, the Inspiron Mini10v, an eerily similar model to the company's previous offering, the plain Mini 10. The obvious difference is price, which drops to US$300 (£200) in the cheapest Ubuntu Linux version.
The price reduction has been achieved by stripping out the odd feature that most netbook buyers would hardly have used, specifically the HDMI interface, and by using a different graphics chipset, the plain Intel GMA 500 rather than the equally basic Intel GMA 945GSE.
The idea that the average netbook user would have hooked their machine up to an HDMI-capable monitor always seemed fanciful given the limitations of the integrated graphics sub-system.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/164955/dells_new_netbook_just_a_reboot.html?tk=nl_dnx_t_crawl
The price reduction has been achieved by stripping out the odd feature that most netbook buyers would hardly have used, specifically the HDMI interface, and by using a different graphics chipset, the plain Intel GMA 500 rather than the equally basic Intel GMA 945GSE.
The idea that the average netbook user would have hooked their machine up to an HDMI-capable monitor always seemed fanciful given the limitations of the integrated graphics sub-system.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/164955/dells_new_netbook_just_a_reboot.html?tk=nl_dnx_t_crawl
