Dell Inspiron Mini 10 Available at Tesco for £349.00: Perfect Mini but slow

Updates: There are many reports at MyDellmini after ordering this Mini 10 Netbook, the recipients got Mini 9 rahter than mnini 10.

Dell Inspiron Mini 10 that was shown at CES 2009 is available for purchase at Tesco website with the price of tag of 349 Euro or $480 USD. The Mini 10 is trendier than Mini 9 and Mini 12. However, unlike Mini 9 and like Mini 12 it comes with the slow processor of Intel Z520 at 1.33GHz. The netbook is more compact that Mini 12.

Mini 10 at this website comes with a multi touch track pad-something similar the one you can find on MacBook laptops but with more limited actions such as responding to 3- finger gestures, and 10-inch WSVGA display.

The netbook features Z520 at 1.33GHz atom CPU, 1GB of RAM, 160GB (5400 rpm) HDD, 802.11b/g Wireless, Bluetooth, 10/100 LAN RJ 45, built-in webcam, 3USB port, Media Card reader, Windows XP,and Microsoft Works 9.0.

However, the higher models can come with faster 1.6GHz CPU, built-in GPS, and optional WWAN.

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OLPC 2.0: The next phase of One Laptop Per Child

Despite laying off half of its employee’s and losing some of its sponsors, OLPC founder, Nicholas Negroponte, did not give up his dream. OLPC reorganized its operation and Negroponte and Charles Kane, President and CEO, One Laptop Per Child is planning to release OLPC 2.0 a new netbook that would be smaller, more efficient and consume low power.

On January 1, 2009, Negroponte announced that OLPC is going to lay off 50% of its employees. The main reason behind this is economic recession. The G1G1 program in which the company heavily invested end up in huge loss and due to financial difficulties of the companies, major sponsors like Nortel, EBay, SES, pulled out of the program. Due to this financial hardship they had the organization had to bring down expense of its OLPCs below $500,000. Now, the company has reorganized its goal. It is now going to focus on Middle East and Africa. In Latin America, OLPC observed great success especially Peru and Uruguay. OLPC has decided to start a separate office in these two regions. In addition, the company will start producing Generation 2.0, the next generation of OLPC netbook. OLPC will also a cost free connectivity program. It will also handover the development of its Sugar Operating System to the open source community.