LXer: Dell acknowledges recession/depression with sub-$500 laptop pricing ... plus an
 

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I'm more than a little excited about Dell's Inspiron Mini 9 netbook, the price of which has dropped to $249 for the basic Ubuntu Linux/512 MB RAM/8 GB solid-state drive model. I had the pleasure of trying this very-small but quite usable netbook at the San Fernando Valley Linux Users Group booth at the recent SCALE 7x show, and I was quite impressed with it.

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