Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Retired!

Dell halts 9-inch Inspiron Mini 9- its first netbook experience from today.

Dell has sent an official statement to the blog of company to announce discontinuing of this netbook model:

“We officially launched the Inspiron Mini 9 Sept. 4, 2008 for $349 and it became the first netbook product with built in Mobile Broadband support offered by a major wireless carrier, Vodafone, in EMEA. Since the launch of the Mini 9, Dell has extended its Mini family with several new products, incorporating industry-led enhancements and customer feedback inspired improvements, and we expanded the palette for personalization options, with more colors and original artwork by Tristan Eaton. For customers who were looking for the Mini 9, we suggest they consider a Dell Mini 10v, with a starting price of $299.

…The Mini 10v also improves upon overall ergonomics with a 10-inch display and a bigger, better keyboard (92% of standard), as well as more storage space and options: choice of SSD (16GB) or traditional hard drives (up to 160GB). It appears up to the task of filling the Mini 9 shoes on the "modding" front as well. For those of you who purchased a Dell Mini 9 during the last nine months, thank you. We appreciate your business, and hope the Dell Mini 9 continues to deliver a great mobile experience.

For those of you in the market for a solid companion device for on the go computing and connectivity, I recommend you check out the Mini 10v.”

The advantages of Mini 9 were: its easy upgradeability and being among the few netbooks in its time to have built-in mobile broadband.

The cons of netbooks were: its cramp keyboard, and short 4-cell battery.

Nowadays the new released 10-inch Mini 10v has taken the attention of many consumers because of its aggressive price, big comfortable keyboard and enough battery run time. You can read about Mini 9 and Mini 10v in the following entries:

-Dell Mini 10v Hands-on: Cheaper than Mini 10 but Not so Much!

-Display Comparison: Late MacBook Pro 15 vs. ThinkPad W700 vs. Mini 9 vs. ThinkPad T60