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Taking the Netbook Plunge

In a fit of consumerism I finally made the purchase of a Dell Mini 9.  In order to let my parental houseguest use the Internet and not have use my desktop.  Since I am running Windows 7, I would rather not play help desk for my mother.  Thus, the netbook purchase. 

I went with a 16 GB SSD and the minimum 512MB of RAM.  I can always upgrade it later, as it will pretty much be a fixture of my living room.  For its purposes, though, it should be more than adequate for now. 

I will make sure to get a longer review up once it arrives.  I am debating reinstalling Windows on it when it arrives just to have XP Professional as opposed to XP Home. 

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  1. Rob Carlson says

    My father has the Mini 9 and really likes it. What color did you get?

  2. Paul says

    I bet you chose the Dell Mini b/c it is one of the easiest ones to get OS X to run on. :-)

  3. JJT says

    @Rob: I went with the shiny black one.
    @Paul: Ubuntu before OSX anyway! ;-)



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