Dell Inspiron Mini 9 now equipped with Maxis 3G broadband

Maxis had silently rolled out a new ’3G-notebook’ package with Dell Inspiron Mini 9 plus Maxis 3G internet broadband. Available beginning 8th Nov onwards, with price tag of RM99 a month x 24 months, you’ll get Dell Mini Inspiron with 6 months of Maxis 3G wireless broadband subscription, which brings the total to RM 2378 (do your own math if it’s worthy).

Dell Mini Inspiron has built-in modem, hence no extenal modem is required. Head to product detail to know more.

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New dell.com, now in black color

I spot the Dell.com new website design upon looking for upcoming mini Inspiron (not yet released). The main blue color web design has now gone, replaced by new color… black. Even Dell has touched up its logo, now a black rounded logo, with the old Dell logo inside, in white color.

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The new design put more emphasize in providing users with ease of navigating the website from the beginning, browsing the systems, viewing the promotion, customizing the system until the users checked out and complete the transaction.

Dell also put some initiative to gain traffic from social media websites, with the dell share this New dell.com, now in black colorsocial bookmarking icon on each page.

At a glance, do you think the new design made Dell.com front page looks like blog with magazine-style theme? I do…

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Create Mac or Dell looks alike dock with Rocketdock

Having seen Dell Dock on Dell Studio, and Mac (have it a long time ago), I’m searching the net to get my own dock, which has brought me to RocketDock.

RocketDock is a similar application distributed free of charge that looks and behaves similar if not better than the latter. Cheers for MS 2000 and XP users since it is compatible to your OS as well.

It has tonnes of addons. You can customize the appearance by using different kinds of skin and icon. Or personalize it by adding more tiny app (docklet), to make your dock useful and cater to your needs. Apart from that, it has a feature to set the minimized application to appear on the RocketDock. Thus any movie currently palying will keep on playing even though after being minimized, like Vista isn’t?

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This is how the RocketDock looks like with the default icon, menu and skin (except for Firefox icon).

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This is how RocketDock in my Vista OS system looks like. It can be placed at the bottom, right or left of your screen.

Compare it with Dell Dock at the screen shot below. At a glance, it looks similar even though the function and setup beneath it is different. Dell Dock is preset with certain functions, not merely the shortcut to any files or programs. Other than that, Dell Dock icon has a child icon, which is the submenu of the icon itself. See the video from yesterday’s post

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Michael Dell stars in a movie this summer

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Michael Dell & Susan Dell are featuring in a movie t titled ‘The Sno Cone Stand Inc’, a movie about the climbing corporate ladder during his summer 2008. While his acting has nothing to do with how Dell is performing now, but it is indeed an eye opener to movie lovers (if it happens to be showing here) and perhaps Dell fan boys (if exist) .

Since this move is filmed on his native town, Austin Texas, so there is no hassle for Mr & Mrs Dell to spend some time over their hectic schedule to do something different from their daily tasks. Manage and sell computers.

Anyway, I’m not trying to be another Valleymag, it’s just that I was trying to find if he has a gorgeous daughter to be included in blogjer’s next post icon smile Michael Dell stars in a movie this summer

See the casting below. I’m in lookout for another tech celebrities news to fill up my weekend slot, so stay tune.

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source: Wikipedia, The Sno Cone Stand

Dell mini notebook

I’ve written few articles about mini notebook before, such as our own own Makcik PC (which has yet to be in market) Asus IEEE and Intel Classmate

There is also HP Mini note 2133, which does not really get as huge attention as Asus EEE due to various reasons such as the low processor which uses Via C7 and the price tag which has higher than Asus EEE.

Dell became the latest player on this soon-to-be crowded market, (even though slightly late) with their own mini notebook version, which has yet to be officially released. At a glance, the design phylopsphy is based on Inspiron 1525 (that’s why some calls it ias mini Inspiron).

No spec released yet, but there is no optical drive included based on the photos released (sigh). Hopefully the final product will have optical drive , otherwise there’ll be less fun

Photos are courtesy of Dell and Gizmodo

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