Dell is planning
to announce a new mini-laptop computer according to a source inside the
company. According to The Wall Street Journal, the Dell Inspiron 910 Mini netbook should launch this Thursday.
The Dell "mini" would be a low-priced computer that is two-thirds
the size of full-featured laptops, which will put it into competition with the
Eee PC from Asustek and other rivals in Taiwan and Japan. Selling for under
$400 the machine will have a screen size under nine inches, and run either
Windows or Linux.
It had been expected that Dell would respond to the craze
for mini computers. The Eee had been doing extremely well among heavy computer
users who want full-access not just to e-mail but to Web pages and business
documents while outside of their offices.
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