This is my ‘mini’ review of my recently purchased Dell Mini 10v.  If you’re not familiar with the Dell Mini product line, these are the line of the new netbook class that is designed with the portable user in mind.  I purchased it for my daughter’s birthday and so far it has been everything I expected.  The Dell Mini 10v is the latest model from Dell in the netbook category.  Mine is equipped with the following:

Processor – Intel®  AtomTM  N270 (1.6GHz/533Mhz FSB/512K L2Cache)
Memory – 1GB,DDR2,533MHZ
Chipset/Graphics – Integrated Intel®  945GSE UMA Graphics Media Accelerator
Display – Glossy 10.1 inch display (1024×576) WSVGA
Hard Drive – 160GB SATA HDD 2.5 inch 5400RPM
Battery – 6-cell 56WHr Li-Ion Battery

The unit is also equipped with usual suspects that you find on most netbooks (802.11 wireless B/G, webcam, SD Card Reader).  The system comes with three external USB ports to hook up all your favorite goodies, as well as, a standard VGA port to connect to an external monitor.  The standard model that is typically sold from Dell comes with a three cell battery (instead of the six cell I purchased) and a 120GB hard drive.  The reason for the six cell over the three is for obvious reasons when you consider that for around $30 you get a over double increase in battery life.  The six cell battery is slightly larger than the standard three cell, which makes the back of the unit stick out a bit.  I found this to be quite useful though as it created a slight tilt effect to the keyboard.  The system came pre-loaded with Microsoft Windows XP w/SP3 and I will continue to use this for a while, probably until Windows 7 is released (Soon, I hope!!).  I found the unit to fairly comfortable to use with the reduced size keyboard and the monitor crisp and bright.  The default resolution (1024×576) is not too bad once you get used to it.  Overall, if you’re looking for an alternative to the big notebook or just needing something to travel with, I would recommend the Dell Mini 10v.

MattsShack.com Thanks Sean for this review.