New Dell Inspiron Mini 10 Gets Atom N450

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Hours after Intel announced a new line of netbook processors, Dell revealed the new Dell Inspiron Mini 10– the first to feature the new Intel Atom N450.  The new Dell Inspiron Mini 10 has received a design refresh and hardware upgrade to take advantage of Intel’s new netbook powerhouse.

The new Dell Inspiron Mini 10 will boast nearly 10 hours of battery life thanks to a larger, low-profile battery and the greater efficiency of the Intel Atom N450 chipset.  While some of the earlier Dell Mini 10′s featured a six-cell battery, the new design sneaks it into the back of the case without the annoying “netbook bump”.  The N450 processor features the same 1.66 GHz clock speed as the prior model, but does so with approximately 80% of the power consumption.  Together, the low-profile six-cell battery and the efficiency of the N450 give the Dell Inspiron Mini 10 a nice upgrade in the battery life department.

The new Dell Inspiron Mini 10 will also feature the Broadcom Crystal HD Accelerator which will run in concert with the new processor to provide HD playback on the 1366 x 768 display.  Add a TV tuner and this little netbook becomes more of an entertainment PC that simply a bare bones web terminal.  In addition to the graphic and processing upgrades, the Dell Inspiron Mini 10 will include Bluetooth, WWAN and GPS, the latter of which has not yet been available in Windows 7 models (and no official word that it will be available in this iteration).

The new Dell Inspiron Mini 10 with the Intel Atom N450 processor will begin shipping in January, starting at $299.