Death of the American.

[reddragdiva]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Well, that was a nice five weeks. My beautiful, sweet, darling little friend, lover and companion, the Dell Mini 9, just let its magic smoke out — as in, an actual delicate little curl of white smoke from the adapter socket and an electrical burnt plastic smell — courtesy the third-party adapter blowing out and TAKING THE LAPTOP WITH IT.

ARSING ARSEBISCUITS WITH EXTRA ARSE AND A SIDE ORDER OF IMPOTENT AND PUSTULENT CHANCROUS COCKS. As they say, don't you know.

This particularly pisses me off because no-one — including Dell — seems to make a 9" netbook. They're all 10" now. The Mini 9 was pretty much the perfect form factor. A Mini 10 is just way too big, quite apart from using the BEHEAD ALL THOSE WHO ADVOCATE POULSBO chipset.

(And I can't work from home until I get a replacement either. Having given up my cruddy work laptop for a desktop at the office.)

So. Does anyone make a 9" netbook these days?

Comments

Dell Mini 10

[https://me.yahoo.com/a/1T4_GMMrzY96xTAl1BhbgoqaRUl2Oy7AaG1PDg--#b4aa4]

I actually think my Dell Mini 10 is perfect.

Re: Dell Mini 10

[reddragdiva]

Well, since you are me, that's fantastically useful information for me, and isn't made worse than utterly superfluous by my personal experience of what suits me and doesn't. Oh, wait.

Sympathy

[deborah_c]

A long time ago, I was working on a consultancy project where we had to take over a very time-critical project in mid-stream. The moment when an expensive bench PSU decided to let the magic smoke out fail catastrophically for no readily apparent reason (we found an actual crater in the top of one of the regulator chips, when we opened it up) and apply unregulated 12V to the 5V input of one of the three prototypes in existence was a bit of a low point...

[rbarclay]

At first glance I can't find any 9-inch, but a couple 8.9-inch, on sale right now:
- Panasonic Toughbook CF-U1
- Samsung Q1 Ultra-Pro 800 Bartez
- Sony Vaio VPC-P11S1E/x

All 900 eurobucks or more, new.

No experience whatsoever with any of them, so not suggesting/endorsing anything.

[reddragdiva]

Yeah. For that sorta price I could buy six Mini 9 off eBay and just swap in a new one each time the old one blows up.

Which is what I'll be doing - I'm now stalking several on evilBay.

[rone]

Complaining that 10" is too big? Who are you and what have you done with the real reddragdiva?

[reddragdiva]

I used to drive a VW Beetle to compensate for my penis.