
image credit to Dell
I have made a wrong decision when I purchased Inspiron Mini 10. Really. It is under power, run on Win 7 starter pack and without HDMI port.
Inspiron Zino HD (released yesterday) is guilty for making me to think like that.
As my Inspiron Mini is a week old, the fact that Inspiron Zino HD has way better spec than Inspiron Mini made me sick. Take a look at the base spec below. With price tag RM1199 (less RM100 than Inspiron Mini) , I feel this is a bargain. It has a better CPU, Win 7 Home, massive hard drive, bigger memory, generous port and HDMI.
I know that it sounds unfair to compare netbooks, with its existence meant for portability with mini desktop, but because my purchase was merely to try a netbook with Windows 7, it is quite a waste of money.
Anyway, if I have spare money, I’ll turn this to multimedia storage connecting it to LCD TV through HDMI.. wow!
Seen it somewhere before? I know, you must be thinking of Mac Mini, isn’t it? Well.. sort of, except that Zino HD is colorful.. and made by Dell.
AMD Athlon(TM) 2850e Processor (1.8GHz, 512K)
Genuine Windows(R) 7 Home Basic 64bit (English)
2GB (2X1GB) DDR2 SDRAM Memory
500GB SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive with Native Command Queuing
Integrated ATI Mobility RadeonTM HD 3200
Single Drive: 8X DVD+/- RW
Front Ports
Two USB 2.0 connectors
One headphone connector
One 4-in-1 memory card reader
Rear Ports
One microphOne connector
One line-out connector
One VGA connector
One RJ45 connector (10/100/1000)
two USB 2.0-compliant connectors
two eSATA connectors
one HDMI connector
Chassis & Case
Form Factor
USFF
Dimensions & Weight
Height: 197.6mm (7.8″)
Width: 197.6mm (7.8″)
Depth: 89mm (3.4″)
Weight: 1.6kg (3.53lb)
Power
65 W with UMA
75 W with MXM Graphics card
Security
Kensington Lock
Drive Bays
One 3.5″ HDD
One 12.7 mm trayload ODD
Memory DIMM slots: 2 available
p/s: now looks for other mini.