Dell Set To Take On Asus Eee PC with Dell Mini Notebook [Dell Poised To Enter Mini Notebook Wars with ‘Mini Inspiration’]

It seems like not a single day goes past without another contender entering the mini notebook ring set on socking it to Asus’s Eee PC range and now, to add to the likes of HP’s Mini Note and MSI’s Wind (to name but two) it appears that Dell is set to enter the fray with their up and coming ‘Mini Inspiration’ PC (though much, including the device’s true title, remains closely under wraps).

Rumoured to put in an appearance at next week’s Computex event, of the few details to have been established as the device was flaunted fleetingly before a member of the Gizmodo team, is that the device sports three USB ports, a card reader, VGA out, Ethernet and that’s about it, except that a number of images made available by Dell (referring to the device as the ‘Mini Inspiration’) do serve to lend a sense of scale to the device. Should rumours previously floating around the net prove founded, however, the device is purported to offer an 8-in-1 card reader (Gizmodo’s sighting would appear to confirm this), a 8.9” screen, a built-in webcam and will be supplied with both Windows XP Home and Ubuntu Linux.

We await further details with bated breath.

UPDATE 13/06/08: See Dell Name ‘Mini Inspiration’ As Dell E & Dell E Slim [First Details And Avialibility Details Concerning Dell’s Eee PC Contender Emerge – MacBook Air Also in Sights].