beefy Dell Inspiron Mini 9
Monday, October 20th, 2008I got my hands on a Mini 9 from Dell running Ubuntu obviously. What a sweet, small and powerful machine that thing is. The demonstrated tech-demos use OpenGL, gstreamer, gtk+ and cairo on a purely OpenSource graphics stack (Xorg and Mesa). No proprietary binary driver-blobs involved. Here’s a little pimpage-video of its rendering power shown off bluntly:
(click to play back, ogv/theora, ~44 MBytes)
YouTube version of this video *shiver*
Please ignore my ad-hoc and superfluous comments I made during the recording. It would have been better with some mellow background music *g*.
All the models of the Mini 9 you can get from Dell come with a built-in webcam afaik. The version I got is an earlier developer device - I guess - which lacks the built-in webcam.
Update: I was informed that the Atom CPU of the Mini 9 uses hyper-threading and is not a real dual core CPU. Well you don’t see that distinction in gnome-system-monitor or via “cat /proc/cpuinfo”. Thanks for the heads up, folks!