Netbooks Get Bigger - The Dell Inspiron Mini 12

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The newest and largest netbook on the block has arrived in the form of the Dell Inspiron Mini 12.

If you're looking for that compromise between a 14" ultraportable that costs too much and that 7 or 9" netbook that you can't type on, you may want to take a look at the Dell Inspiron Mini 12. We first heard about this last week, and it is among the first of what could be a great many 12" laptops to hit the streets this season. At $600, it is also certainly one of the cheapest. The Inspiron Mini 12 is slim at just under an inch thick, and light too, weighting under 3 pounds with the 3-cell battery, and three pounds on the button with the 6-cell. Many netbooks have those specs, but remember, this one is bigger. Where the size most pays off is in the screen resolution (1200x800) and actually usable keyboard (91% of full). We can't tell you how frustrating it was to try to touchtype on the cramped Inspiron Mini 9, but with the Mini 12 those problems should be gone. Laptopmag ran a few basic tests and found the performance to be a little slow with Vista. The specs are pretty standard netbook - 1.6GHz Atom processor (although it is the Z530 and not the N270), 1GB RAM, and one slow 60GB HDD. Is this the future of netbooks? We'll have to wait and see.

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