Dell Mini Discontinued: Company Kills Netbooks To Focus On Ultrabooks

Dude, you're not getting a Dell netbook.

Dell, the Texas-based computer manufacturing giant, is no longer offering its Dell Mini netbook for sale. The website MyDellMini.com found that the Dell Mini had been pulled from the Dell website, and a Dell spokesperson confirmed that the company was getting out of the netbook business in a statement to tech website The Verge.

This is the second large-scale product discontinuation for Dell this month, as the company also ended its Dell Streak 7 tablet earlier in December. MyDellMini.com, which is "the largest dedicated Dell Mini and Dell Streak forum," would appear to be going through an existential crisis about now.

In her statement to The Verge, Dell Marketing Director Alison Gardner said of the company's future plans that "[t]hin and powerful is where it's at for us." This is widely interpreted as a nod to the company's future plans for ultrabooks, the super-thin PC notebooks that competitors Asus, Acer, Lenovo and Toshiba already have on the market. Dell has not yet announced their ultrabook model but are expected to do so in January at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

The Dell Mini led a short though prolific life. Launched in September 2008, the Dell Mini 9 was a $350 machine running Ubuntu (or, for $450, Windows XP), available in many different colors and released at the time of the great netbook boom. The Mini 9 was followed by the Mini 9, the Mini 10 series and the Mini 12 series, all of which have now been confined to the dustbin of technological history as Dell shifts its lightweight computing focus from netbooks to ultrabooks.

Still want to grab a Dell Mini for yourself? Never fear: There are plenty for sale at non-Dell outlets all over the Internet.

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[JohnTheMac]

07:09 AM on 12/19/2011

The last Dell I bought was a Precision, years ago. It was $900 or so, with WinXP. I really needed Win2000, so I asked them how much for a box with no OS. (should be cheaper, right?).
With no OS, it was... $900.
But how?
You see, the model with WinXP was really $1,100, but THAT model was on sale for $200 less.
The model with no OS was just always $200 less.
What a Windows racket!
I only bought it because my client specifically asked for a Dell Precision. From there, I found a place in Ohio where you can pick each component, motherboard, etc, etc. They were pretty good, but the turnaround of a week was killing some deals and scheduling.
Now, I just build my own.

[frank1946]

11:55 PM on 12/18/2011

Dell Desktops are OK, price is right, they are reliable.

Tiny keyboards and 40 character smartphones keep me away !

Ultra Notebooks sound interesting.

[deucejuice]

11:00 AM on 12/18/2011

Dell makes garbage.

[Corpilot]

10:53 AM on 12/18/2011

Dell who?

[Marvin Hadley Jr]

09:51 AM on 12/18/2011

In honor of a famous comedienne, Dell will be coming out with the Whoopibook, eh?

[SisterAnn]

09:08 AM on 12/18/2011

I have 4 dells in the house, two lap tops, one really old one and a Dell Inspiron. I like them a lot. Before that I had HPs and had bad luck with them.

Dell, like most computers, are built overseas. Their repair service is bad because they hire people who can speak our language but have trouble understanding what we say. Most of my time on the phone with them is trying to decipher what they said or them trying to decipher what I say.

I called repair service and they were going to charge me a huge amount to fix a laptop that had a little water spilled on the keyboard. We had learned from experience with a cell phone that sometimes if they dry before use, they will work. The computer had dried before we used it but it still would not work at all.

After I finished talking to them, I was tapping on the keyboard to see which keys were spongy and trying to decide what to do. Only one key was slow. I tapped it several times and it loosened up. I tapped every key and alt control delete. Suddenly it came across the blank screen, 'You need to charge your battery'. We charged it and it has worked every since. Did I discover a break through on fixing a laptop or what? :-)

[Marvin Hadley Jr]

09:53 AM on 12/18/2011

I think the real problem was that u kept the laptop next to the urinal. Repairs are more costly as a result, eh?

[SisterAnn]

02:38 PM on 12/18/2011

Who knows? I wasn't there when it happened. You are close, it was bathroom water dealy. My 16 year grandson showered, then threw a towel over his shoulders. He went to his room and the laptop was about a foot away from the glass of water. I had set him up a TV table to keep drinks a foot from the computer. When he flipped the towel off his shoulders, it hit the glass, knocking it over and the water went a foot out to the keyboard. That is his story and he is sticking to it:-)

[Bor Zoi]

09:35 PM on 12/17/2011

I had a new company laptop from Dell.
If I had a CD in the drive, it would start using an emergency boot up.

[colin72]

10:03 AM on 12/17/2011

Screw the netbooks. Are the girls in the photo single?

[StephenJK]

01:24 AM on 12/18/2011

No kidding. There are no comparisons to asian models. They're incredible.

[Michael Hawthorne]

08:54 AM on 12/17/2011

It's a free, Linux-based open-source operating system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(operating_system)
http://www.ubuntu.com

[Dadzilla]

06:42 AM on 12/17/2011

It's a real shame that this once excellent company was let to go to ruin, one bad decision at a time.

[mikefly562]

02:58 AM on 12/17/2011

Dell makes extremely poor products. Very high failure rates of proprietary power supplies, motherboards, etc. I use dell products at work, and they are all terrible. I would never spend my own $$ on a dell product.

[sensimilla]

12:44 PM on 12/18/2011

haha, you havent tried deploying HP's at work have you? THEY are complete garbage, making the dells look almost perfect!