Dell Mini 10 (Pine Trail)

Dell Mini 10 (Pine Trail)

Netbooks, Dell has always been of peasant, their strength has been a beautiful design and many variants of optional enhancements, but the ergonomics and battery life, frankly, disappointing. The new processor Intel Atom N450 corrected one of the disadvantages, netbook, Dell Inspiron Mini 10 (Pine Trail) running on batteries the whole 9 hours. Among the other advantages of this netbook can be noted an attractive design, multiple color options for the shell, the hard drive, 250 GB, Windows 7 Starter Edition and all at a reasonable price. But there will be a new Dell Inspiron Mini 10 competition netbooks on the market leaders, companies Acer, ASUS, and Toshiba?

Appearance at the Dell Mini 10 (Pine Trail) a nice, rounded shape, textured surface of the casing around the keyboard, and the side he even reminds potolstevshy laptop Dell Adamo . Cover netbook glossy, but we were lucky, got to test netbook with lid in white, the remaining fingerprints were hardly noticeable. Also available Dell Mini 1910 netbook (Pine Trail) black, blue, green, pink, purple and red. In the Dell online store is 229 versions of entire drawings for the cover netbook, but for trendy design will have to pay $ 85.

Cooling System Dell Mini 10 is not working very well, after 15 minutes of playing full-screen video corpus rather strongly warmed, to work with such a netbook on the knees not the best option. Touchpad warmed to 35 degrees, the middle of the keyboard 37.8 degrees and the lower side of the shell and does has reached 42.2 degrees. Specify that for a netbook, these temperatures are not terrible.

The keyboard in the new Dell Mini 10 is better than its predecessor, but it is still far from the convenience of the best keyboards on netbooks. Touchpad in the netbook great, but inconvenient, because it combined with the mouse buttons. We do not know why this was done, the easier single mouse, divided into left and right, but Dell went his own way ...

Dell Mini Screen 10 (Pine Trail) standard for most netbooks size and resolution - 10.1-inch 1024 × 600 pixels, the picture is bright, good horizontal viewing angles, the vertical bit worse. In general, a good display, the average level.

On the left side netbook are two port USB, VGA, card reader and format 3 in 1. On the right side we see the connector for the network card, another USB port and headphone and microphone. No HDMI output, although it is possible to purchase an option on netbook video accelerator Broadcom HD. The question arises, why buy it if you still are unable to bring HD video on the big screen.

At the top of the screen, like all netbooks, struts 1.3 megapixel webcam, the key phrase here "like all", the camera is no worse and no better than the other netbooks.

In the test PCMark05 netbook Dell Mini 10 (Pine Trail) scored 1,326 items that 150 basis points below the mean values. Productivity Dell Mini 10 is the same level as that of the Acer Aspire One 532h and 85 points worse than the ASUS Eee PC 1005PE .

Download Windows 7 operating system Starter Edition took 1 minute 20 seconds, more than 20 seconds, worse than average. This poor result can be attributed to the antivirus installed on the netbook and additional software Dell.

Traditionally, netbooks on the platform Intel Pine Trail perform poorly in tests of video card was no exception, and Dell Inspiron Mini 10 (Pine Trail), typing in the 3DMark06 test, all 157 points. But that did not stop without any problems to look at netbook 720p HD in full screen mode.

As we wrote at the beginning of this review, battery life at the Dell Mini 10 above all praise, in the mode of surfing on the Internet using Wi-Fi, netbook could hold 9 hours and 3 minutes. Dell 5600 mAh battery comes with 6 elements on a full charge it took us 4:04 hours, and up to 80% can be charged for the 2:48 hour.

The tested configuration is offered in the U.S. for 369 dollars for 299 dollars you can buy Dell Mini 10 (Pine Trail) with 160 GB hard drive and Windows XP Home. Also available configuration with 2 GB of memory, accelerated HD Broadcom , a screen with 1366 × 768 pixels and a module 3G. Later in the sale will be Dell Mini 10 with a digital tuner module and GPS, the price of $ 425. In general, if you decide to choose a Dell Mini 10 (Pine Trail), will be available a lot of options. True, we do not believe that just as easily can be configured netbook, and here.

New Dell Mini 10 netbook leaves an ambiguous impression, it is clearly visible improvements over previous models, but to the best netbook on the platform of Pine Trail, he does not hold, and remaining middle. Dell Mini 10 (Pine Trail) can be a good choice for those who want to add the option in your netbook, an additional plus is the stylish design and long battery life.

Price in Russia to Dell Mini 10 (Pine Trail) is not yet known, the older generation Dell Mini 10 is with us from 11 000 rub. If the new netbook will cost the same or slightly more expensive, it would be a good buy for your money.

Configuring Dell Mini 10 (Pine Trail):

Processor - Intel Atom N450 1,66 GHz;

Memory - 1 GB (expandable to 2 GB);

Hard drive - 160/250 GB depending on configuration;

Video - Intel GMA 3150;

Display - 10.1 inch, 1024 × 600 or 1366 × 768;

Wireless networks - Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1, 3G (optional);

Ports - 3 x USB, VGA, microphone, headphone, RJ-45;

Other - Web Camera 1.3-megapixel, 3 in one card reader, optional digital tuner module GPS, Card Broadcom Crystal HD;

Battery - 5600 mAh 6-cell (9 hours);

Operating System - MS Windows 7 Starter Edition or Win XP Home;

Dimensions - 26,7 x 19,55 x 3,3 cm;

Weight - 1,36 kg.