Dell Mini 12

The big brother of the mini-notebook called Dell Mini 12 is the star today. These two figures give the diagonal: 12 inches and make a giant in the world of netbooks which the vast majority of computers capped at 10 inches. These two extra inches they have an interest to us to be tempted by the move to size up? This is what we’ll see. Handling, Ergonomics. An immediate advantage of this gain in size is the size of the touchpad. Spacious, it offers ease of use very valuable. Importantly, the surface is dull in contrast to the remains of the hull.

This allows better glide the finger. The keyboard already comfortable on a 10-inch model does not change so much here. In the photo above, you may notice also lost a good two inches on each side. Used, they would have avoided the resizing of some buttons with the arrow keys. To note, the keyboard and mouse buttons are soft, perhaps a bit too.

The webcam image is disturbed by movement. Better to remain static in the face and failing to appear in the image breaks. Beware the white balance. By default, it gives a purple. The captured sound is a bit smothered, and we have noticed some cracks in the recording. On edges of the device include: 3 USB, 1 RJ45 (10/100), 2 mini-jacks, an SD card reader 3 in 1 and 1 VGA. The subsistence level is ensured. Under the netbook, it accesses the battery and nothing else. No door to change the hard drive or add RAM.Calculations. Vista index 2.9. CPU 3.0 – 4.3 Memory – 2.9 Graphics – Game 3.0 – 4.3 HDD. All transactions on this machine are very long. The energizing requires 1min15 seconds against 30 seconds for the fastest netbook. The calculations of our new test procedure applied 4-6 times longer than the last 18 inches tested. This poor result cache is good news, he still carried out all operations. Just this requested considerably more time and this should be adopted.

On the operating system, I probably would not choose the version with Windows Vista (too heavy). The alternative Ubuntu is interesting for fans of free OS and free, yet I certainly my bearings on XP that works very well on these small machines.

A point on the video: limit yourself to SD (DVD etc..) And make a cross on High Definition. Play. The more you have of pixels displayed, more work is difficult for the graphics card. Here, the Dell Mini 12 must manage 1280×800 pixels, or 66% more pixels. Might as well be clear is mission impossible for recent games. Remain humble on old titles and also prefer the 2D. Audio. The speaker does not have transcended far from it. The maximum volume is low and the overall dish. Mobility Autonomy. With 1.2 kg on the scales and a charger 181 grams, the Mini 12 We were surprised by its lightness. Unfortunately we soon became disillusioned on this section because of its autonomy. Its small battery 2200mAh could take this model to two hours during our testing procedure. This is obviously far too low compared to the sizes of the discipline that can reach up to 5 hours.