Dell has published several illustration photos with description of how to disassemble the Dell Mini 10 and gain access to the HDD, CPU and Wireless card. Please note that you will have to take keyboard out in order to get your hands on the aforementioned items. And by removing the trackpad assembly, you can even add TV tuner to the unit. Unfortunately, you cannot upgrade the RAM as it soldered to the unit. More pictures:
[via mydellmini]
Remember the ultra-thin EEE SHELL that we mentioned a couple of days back? Well, ASUS is planning to unveil the SHELL AKA 1008HA at the CeBIT 2009. The SHELL 1008HA is rumored to be slimmer than the current flagship EEE, S101 and will offer more battery life than the EEE S101.
Along with 1008HA, the company will also showcase the recently released S101H, Eee PC T91, Eee PC S121, UX and U-series ultra-thin notebooks and Eee Keyboard. More exciting news coming, the S101’s successor , S121 is also going to be launched, which will have a whopping 512GB SSD drive. Yes, that is not a typo. It will be the first netbook to feature such spacious SSD drive. However, it is cost you at mind-boggling $1649. For those who want to be remain on the cheap side, they can opt for the 120GB HDD version, which will retail for $899.
At $1649 and with 512GB SSD, one does not need to be a rocket scientist to figure out that the ASUS S121 is directly going to rival the Macbook Air, which retails more or less, at the same price. However, will it still be called an EEE? That is miles behind of being called as a cheap netbook.
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Click here to read the S101 review
[via digitimes]
It looks like that not all the Dell Mini 9s are same or shall I say “Dell has made an improvement”. The hinge of the old Dell Mini 9 (shown on the right) would not allow the screen to go back as the one shown on the left. The ability to go back more can provide better viewing angles in certain positions, say when you are standing.
My trusty ASUS EEE 1000H can go back a great deal, almost 160-deg or so. It is pity that the older Dell Mini 9’s hinge did not allow the users to let their screens go back as compared to the new Dell Mini 9’s hinge.
[related post on DellMini forums]
Asus Eee PC 1000HE is going to be made available in many colors, which includes colors like silver, gold, pink, blue and ofcourse, black and white. There will be no changes hardware-wise or software-wise in these models.
Specifications:
Intel Atom N280 processor @ 1.66GHz
160GB HDD
1GB RAM
10GB EEE storage (read more about it)
WiFi b/g/n
Bluetooth 2.0
ASUS EEE PC 1004DN has passed the FCC (link), which increases its chances of making its debut in the US market. The 1004DN is the first EEE PC with a built-in DVD drive. It has two features which makes it different from 1000H:
Specifications:
via netbook3g
If you have just installed the wonderful EEEbuntu, you will have a hard time figuring out the Super Hybrid Engine. The EEEbuntu does not come with SHE, but instead it comes with a SHE-equivalent, CPU FREQUENCY CONTROL.
Soon, after the installation, you may not be able to find it. Here are the steps to put it somewhere so that it is always accessible.
After adding it to the Dock, you can simply click on the the applet to change the CPU frequency. I recommend the onDemand profile which scales the CPU speed as per requirement
