Comments on: Dell’s Mini 9 Launches; as low as $349

By: crashoverride

crashoverride — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:34:55 +0000

Im not sure why everyone is hating in the Ubuntu Version of this guy. I just ordered one and have read the OS is pretty great for the specified uses most people want for a netbook. If everyone complains about the CPU’s being taxes then why not just take some of the load off. I guess I don’t use this as full-featured and its great for the “sit at Panera” event and the like. OpenOffice works fine for me in a pinch and maybe that’s what makes me different. If I need oomph I will carry the 15″ MBP; but most days this guy ought to do fine, especially if they have Verizon WAN and any extended battery that isn’t a pound. Since it’s Voda for WAN in the UK I am hoping its VZW here for the same…

By: MK

MK — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:49:13 +0000

Ordered the black 1GB, XP, 16GB SSD yesterday, and got a ’sept 19′ ship date from Dell. But, today (a rep from) Dell called and said that I’d be getting it ‘the middle of next week,’ so good news. And, upgrades seem to be a no-brainer with the access panel on the bottom freely available. Question though: since XP OOTB supports 4GB (really ~3.5GB), can I add 2GB in the open slot, or are there BIOS restrictions or something?

By: Memzback

Memzback — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:08:57 +0000

I wonder if you can buy the other laptop, get this one for $99 and then return the other laptop…Still couldn’t find any info on that deal

By: MadMike

MadMike — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:51:03 +0000

You know what, I apologize. I’m just in a crabby mood. I don’t know you from Adam man unless your that guy at Jefferson that keeps calling me Tony Danza.

By: Jrad

Jrad — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:02:13 +0000

This thing is pretty nice for the price LED, and you can customize your build. They just need to come out with a 6 or 8 cell batt and I’m in.

By: backbeat

backbeat — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:48:30 +0000

The “sissy ER techs” are usually the ones who have to revive and pick up you 250-lb neanderthals off the floor of my OR, kid. Don’t ever show up in my ED.

By: MadMike

MadMike — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:06:30 +0000

You ER Techs are a bunch sissies. We were going back in forth in a nice pissing contest and you have to go and get all nasty. I’m just busting your balls dude, chill out. Whatever, it was fun until you had to get all PMS’d.

By: backbeat

backbeat — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:22:54 +0000

You’re the one sleeping with men in suspenders and you throw monkey-shit for self-entertaining grins and giggles?! ‘Nuf said. You’ve clearly proven yourself to be the biggest flaccid phallus on the net. G’day, idiot. (But, don’t let that stop you from continuing to swing for the fences but catch nothing but air, Princess)

By: MadMike

MadMike — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:13:56 +0000

ohh, Your a Candy Striper! I guess replacing bed pans and serving jello is very frustrating.

Hey man, they force me to pull that band-aid brigade crap for two days between every shift rotation. Complain to the city. Besides, I’m BLS not ALS – The only thing I need to know is band-aids go sticky side down. besides, I’m a trucky. I break down doors and rummage through your DVD’s. Well, maybe not _your_ DVD’s. Seriously, how many Directors uncut versions of “Brokeback mountain” do you own?

Again, with the limp references. ED is a curable disease. Tell your boyfriend to go to a doctor and he’d have a nice case of priapism in no-time to make you his bitch for hours on end. I’m guessing you wear the skirt in the relationship.

Still not hitting home. More comic relief than real ball busting.

By: backbeat

backbeat — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:51:05 +0000

Still with the whimpy, limp-wristed whining? Shoulda known that street tools are the only instruments you’d be familiar with. Maybe … one day … if your pair ever descends … you can spend a day in surgery with me while you witness what it takes to correct the idiot mistakes you street clowns pull as a matter of “public service”.

Stick with the whimpy, limp-wristed whining. That’s not only your best shot … It’s your _only_ shot. Having to lean on someone else’s ‘material’ certainly makes a straight-up maverick hero out of you, doesn’t it? Move on, coward.

By: MadMike

MadMike — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:39:14 +0000

A lot of phallic symbolism there backbeat. Got something on your mind? What, your boyfriend couldn’t get it up for you last night? Oh, “back” & “beat”. So your boyfriend likes to beat off on your back, right?

Cower in the corner while pissing down my leg? Would you rather me just go right out and say Asshole?

Still, not enough. Your taking cheap shots. You need something without quick wit retort. Trust me – Dennis Leary’s No Cure for Cancer is like a bible.

You don’t call to collect debts. Nothing says “Pay Up Sucker” like a compound fracture to a long bone. Give them a good whack with a Denver tool right in the shin. Or, put there arm in a Hurst Paladin, if it can cut a car, it can cut a limb.

Seriously is that the best you got?

By: backbeat

backbeat — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:54:39 +0000

^ A whiner is a whiner is a whiner, regardless of your flaccid deflections. Take another little blue pill and call your “therapist” in the morning for yet another rise-n-shiner.

“A-hole”? Does the english language make you cower in the corner while pissing down your leg, coward?

btw – Thanks for the confirmation of what your _real_ credentials are.

By: MadMike

MadMike — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:30:10 +0000

Tale-O’Woe? Am I going, “I walked in 4′ of snow, for ten miles uphill, both ways, carrying my incontinent grandfather who had no legs while smoking a pack of unfiltered Lucky Strikes to my van DOWN BY THE RIVER!” at every chance? No. You can’t do a-hole retort comments well. Listen to about 20 hours straight of Dennis Leary, then write something insulting.

I have never been on Monster.com. No reputable business searches Monster. Unless you are looking for a fulfilling career in a call center at a collections agency.

By: Pom

Pom — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:09:29 +0000

I do not see this offer they are talking about (mini for $99)….?

By: backbeat

backbeat — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:06:19 +0000

CV, in this case, equates to a whiner’s Tale-O’Woe, Cinderella. _sniffle_ Regardless, I’m sure Monster.com misses your presence.

By: MadMike

MadMike — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:04:23 +0000

Engadget has a story that Vodaphone is releasing a 3G Equipped Dell Mini.

That’s one thing where the MBA was disappointing to me. The almost complete lack of WWAN. Even the single USB port was made in a way that 99% of USB air cards wouldn’t fit!

By: MadMike

MadMike — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:35:25 +0000

That is not a CV.

Monster.com is nothing put a cesspool of spam and pyramid schemes.

By: backbeat

backbeat — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:32:23 +0000

^ How many times must you post your internet-worthy CV? Maybe Monster.com cares … but no one else.

By: MadMike

MadMike — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:19:11 +0000

Hey man, I married a Dermatologist. I’m the househusband, and got to semi-retire from crappy corporate work to become a smoke eater in the city.

If it wasn’t for my pension and the benefits I would have just quit. But I got 7 more years till I can be eligible for the early retirement package.

By: Big Papi

Big Papi — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:11:56 +0000

I suppose the appeal of a mini laptop doesn’t fit with me, especially if I tote my BB and stuff. I guess a full powered laptop still wins out for me. More power to those that this will cater too.

By: backbeat

backbeat — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:33:01 +0000

@MadMike:

Not everyone is lucky enough to be a perpetual student. Some of us actually work for a living. Work which requires shouldering more than just 7lbs of plastic around. Rather than hitting the gym, maybe you can simply stop thinking with your glutes.

By: 1adonis1

1adonis1 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:11:07 +0000

Blah, I don’t want Ubuntu on the lower end. I’d rather have Win2K. Oh well I guess the extra 50 bucks will be worth it for XP.

By: MadMike

MadMike — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:07:04 +0000

Never understood the whole “netbook” push. I have two laptops – why do I need to waste $400 on one with 1/10th the power and features of my 17″ MBP & 15.4″ T61P? The MBP is only 7 lbs – if you can’t carry 7 lbs around for 8 hours, then you seriously need to put the cheeseburger down and hit a damn gym.

By: Niraj

Niraj — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:58:10 +0000

@Galvatron: Just use Orb (orb.com) and the amount of storage is no issue as long as you’re connected to internet. And really this is great for viewing web-based media and using web applications, not for storing all your media anyways.

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:43:53 +0000

I’m looking at another down side Small hard drives 4-16 GIGS?! seriously like the fact you can use ubuntu But seriousl 4 gigms misnimum? thats as big as my flashdrive