Product Uses: Connecting with Friends, coffee shop flirting, listening to online audio feeds, listening to music, email im tweets etc.

Review:The Mini 9 caught my eye because of the form factor and solid state HD. I ordered a WinXP configuration with an extra GB of RAM and the 8 GB flash HD.

PROS:
Easy 4 hours of useful battery life and a snappy recharge.
Three USB ports, a Cat 5 connex and WiFi.
Fits in my overcoat pocket.
Great for taking to company meetings - barely noticeable at the conference table.
Great for client meetings, minimal presence.
All for way under $300.

CONS:
Keyboard and touch pad take some getting used to, but so did my touch screen smart phone.
Small HD means the standard approach of installing every application you might need is out of the question.
Small screen and screen form factor not compatible with certain uses.
A bit of a pokey boot-up, probably because the solid state HD reads a bit slower than a SATA HD.

After the usual wonderful Dell purchase experience and speedy delivery, I literally squealed like a little girl when I opened the box and first saw the Mini 9. I defy you to not speak in a falsetto voice when you first pick up one of these little dolls. So much computing power, in the palm of my hand, for under $300 delivered to my door - it's great to be alive in 2009! After installing my customary suite of downloaded essentials (probably similar to yours - Avira, Firefox, IM client, image editor, etc.) I was left with about 4 GB of HD space on the Mini 9's 8 GB internal drive.

My first test usage of the Mini 9 was at the local espresso and WiFi cafe and I was thrilled at the user experience. Plenty of room on the table, all the computing power I needed and a whole lot of fun. Hopping on the cloud, I pulled down some of my Google docs and edited a couple of reports, checked email at the office and popped in the earbuds and listened to ESPN. Did I mention these little netbooks are chick magnets? It's better than taking puppy to a park because you don't need a scooper.

Touch typists should probably pass on the Mini 9, the non-traditional QWERTY layout will drive you crazy. Also useless for large document, large graphics and spreadsheet work - save that for the 20" flat screen on your desk.

A delightful partner for a digital camera and smart phone, easy to move files between them and a great way to manage all that stuff. Just for fun, I connected the Mini 9 to my Terabyte backup external drive, a desktop monitor and an external keyboard and mouse, and the Mini 9 worked perfectly as an emergency CPU. The long battery life and great processor architecture means that with the WiFi and a selection of online audio sources, the Mini 9 makes a cool "WiFi portable radio" and it's perfectly fine for watching video news clips, youtube vids and the like.

The Mini 9 is by no means a substitute for today's monster notebooks but it's an incredibly sweet little helper for the 75% of the PC work that most of us do that fits so well within the Mini 9's capabilities.

Product Uses: Connecting with Friends, web

Review:I bought this Mini 9 netbook in the Alpine White from the outlet as a certified refub. Worked out of the box with no apparent problems. Ubuntu is a nice OS for a change of pace. Have not attempted to connect to the internet yet but will give it a try once home with the mini. The only reason I am giving it 4 stars currently is for presentation alone. While this item may have been purchased certified refurb some sort of glue type substance was on the white part of the mini which took some time cleaning it off. I would think Dell would want all their items cleaned up looking as if they were brand new including the refurbished ones. My review could still change for the worse based on internet connectivity.

Product Uses: Connecting with Friends, Finances, pay bill, broad search etc., email, store all other info on a external drive

Review:I loved that the fact this mini 9 is small, slick compact, and lightweight on the go. This unit is is great for paying bill online, email and light surfing on the internet. NOT RECOMMEND for users who use for music/video/downloads/picture editing/software or program installation/typing excessively/ or REQUIRED"LARGE VIEW/FONTS". This unit is vey basic for an average user.

cons: after spending the extra cash for the optional upgrade, found that i could just possibly purchase a different unit with more gigabyte, better processor, more ram for just less than 1 additional POUND. dont be fool, 8gb or 16 gb is not to many storage. many competitors are out there to compete... i should of purchase another netbook of the similar size and all option already included, but I just love Dell brand better. I would not recommend this mini 9.

Product Uses: Connecting with Friends

Review:Passed up lots of other mini's because Dell is supposed to be the best....not when it comes to mini's....save the extra money you spend on a name brand on this product because it is a terrible product. Wish I had sent it back!

Product Uses: Finances

Review:THIS IS THE BIGGEST MISTAKE I COULD'VE MADE BUYING THIS COMPUTER.I CAN'T GET ON THE INTERNET AND WOULDN'T SUGGEST THIS TO KNOW ONE ELSE.

Product Uses: Connecting with Friends, Finances, emails, word processing

Review:I have the Dell 910 Mini and love it as far as performance goes and the biggest problem was with the Solid State Drive which is the only option for this model. The Ubuntu OS took up the majority of the space on this drive and the updates didn't help either. For a unit this size I was surprised at the quality of sound coming from it's speakers.

Any model with a SSD less than 64GB is not good for getting Windows XP or Vista on. I recently ordered a refurbished 64GB SSD from Dell and hopefully it will give me enough space to work with and Dell was the cheapest place to buy one since the prices on these drives are very high and I looked around before buying one. Some places wanted over $1000.00 dollars for a 64GB drive which shocked me. The keyboard is difficult to work with since I have large hands, but other than that the unit is just fine for me since I now travel alot.

Product Uses: Connecting with Friends

Review:Love this little computer. I bring into the kitchen and follow recipies from the web sites. Small and light

Review:I bought this for my daughter since she works on a cruise ship and needed something small and efficient for port calls to keep in touch. We love love love it. It is so fast and so amazing.

Product Uses: buiness, graphic design, communicating with customers, internet and videoconferencing

Review:Very good product nicely built solid frame, nice keyboard one would regret however the hard drive with a limited capacity, Dell should review its policy and offer a larger hard drive like the competition.

I bought the version with XP and installed Linux alongside. A very good operating system when it was introduced almost a decade ago I feel XP is not up to the task with Netbooks. Though small Netbooks are powerful but XP has too many glitches to make it fun to use.

For instance the main window doesn't resize automatically when you click on the center like in Linux, connecting to the Internet appears fater on Linux as the drivers are in the Kernel now, Windows Explorer is not at all handy on a Netbook far from practical. Internet Explorer nags you with security permission EVERY TIME you want to do something.

We bought 3 Mini at a local store and loaded our own version of Linux : Mandriva Power Pack a wonderful Linux at less than a 100$. It works right out of the box.

Good product with fast shiiping we recommend Dell Mini laptops with your own personal Linux or Ubuntu and XP in dual boot