Dell Inspiron Mini 9 shinyness

Our batch of new Inspiron Minis arrived at work today. And very, very lovely (and shiny) they are too. Strange quirks include no F-keys (there are replacements via the Fn button and home row) and some difficulty getting sound drivers working when replacing XP Home with XP Pro, but they’re working now and run pretty fast and cool.

Some obligatory pictures:

Things of note:

The Mini is almost the same size as the 701, only very slightly longer and slightly thinner. The MSI Wind (or rather, the Advent 4211, which is the same machine) is gargantuan in comparison. The screen on the Mini is the same res as the screen on the Wind (1024×600) but smaller. The Mini’s trackpad is both larger, and better, than those on the other two. It’s track buttons are better too.