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Posted at 12:00 AM on Friday 02/27/09 by
Ben
Hotness UNHOT
Update: They finally made the deal live with these lesser specs: 512MB DDR2, 4GB SSD, Ubuntu Linux for $249 - $50 instant savings + $8 shipping = $207 shipped.

Today only. Dell Home has the Inspiron Mini 9 for $199. This netbook sports a low-power consumption Intel Atom Processor N270 1.6GHz, 1GB DDR2, 8GB SSD, 8.9" 1024x600 LCD, 802.11g Wireless, 32WHr Battery, and runs XP Home. [Review]
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    hawk - Posted 12:08 am PST 02/27/09 (149 Posts)  Report Spam

    It's $299 from Dell website, not $199...

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    jerryslacks - Posted 12:10 am PST 02/27/09 (889 Posts)  Report Spam

    ya wtf i was ready to buy dis

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    qtn2x - Posted 12:16 am PST 02/27/09 (396 Posts)  Report Spam

    ben's been doing a lot of this lately.

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    puyo - Posted 12:27 am PST 02/27/09 (20 Posts)  Report Spam

    ben u rodeo cowboy. get ur baconnaise together. wait.. you are already full of baconnaise

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    Dreampiece - Posted 12:37 am PST 02/27/09 (149 Posts)  Report Spam

    don't hate on ben... people make mistakes... maybe dell didn't update their site yet or some crap like that.

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    jerryslacks - Posted 12:46 am PST 02/27/09 (889 Posts)  Report Spam

    i hope ben guts u like a fish #3

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    MegaViper - Posted 1:02 am PST 02/27/09 (495 Posts)  Report Spam

    Call me when they are $199 for real someday. Till then I will use my laptop I have now.

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    morganm - Posted 1:07 am PST 02/27/09 (22 Posts)  Report Spam

    I know this won't assuage all the anger, but the ASUS Eee with similar specs dropped to $179 + about $9 for UPS right now at Mwave, I just bought one.

    It's only 4GB SSD and it's refurbished, but it's 8.9" LCD, 1GB RAM, and an Atom N270, no idea on battery life. I went for it.

    http://bensbargains.net/redirect/94338

    Also there's an original 7" 2G Eee PC on sellout.woot today for $165 shipped.

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    SPaZ - Posted 1:07 am PST 02/27/09 (132 Posts)  Report Spam

    I hope there is a way to get this for $199. 300 bucks for a system with an 8Gig hard drive doesn't work for me.

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    rickicole - Posted 1:17 am PST 02/27/09 (71 Posts)  Report Spam

    it was probably some dell typo that they fixed by the time ben posted this @ 199. Smile

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    whatatay - Posted 1:58 am PST 02/27/09 (1901 Posts)  Report Spam

    Another site (which Ben's fat ass won't let me post here) said it is supposed to go on sale sometime this morning, likely at 7:00AM EST. It is now 5:00AM EST and still no deal.

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    Jrox - Posted 5:03 am PST 02/27/09 (54 Posts)  Report Spam

    8 am est and still 299

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    h57h - Posted 5:06 am PST 02/27/09 (360 Posts)  Report Spam

    Well At 8:05 am EST it is 199. Get your wallets out you complainers

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    xculpatory - Posted 5:12 am PST 02/27/09 (163 Posts)  Report Spam

    yeah but its a stripped down version now...ubuntu linux, 512mb ram 4gb ssdd...yawn....i'll pass

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    workmanms - Posted 5:38 am PST 02/27/09 (60 Posts)  Report Spam

    If you've dealt with Dell at all you'll know they frequently update and kill deals without any warning. I'm sure Ben's taken a lot of grief because of this over the years too ....

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    whatatay - Posted 6:07 am PST 02/27/09 (1901 Posts)  Report Spam

    Yeah #14, it isn't the deal Ben posted, it is some strpped down version alright. Pass too.

    #15, Ben doesn't give a rats ass about anyone but himself. He never did and he never will.

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    Leeds - Posted 6:07 am PST 02/27/09 (113 Posts)  Report Spam

    9:06 & it's still $299.

    http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-inspiron-9?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&~oid=us~en~29~laptop-inspiron-9_anav2~~


    This was posted at midnight. Any chance we're off by a day (+ or -) ?

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    Bhen_Chod - Posted 6:19 am PST 02/27/09 (12 Posts)  Report Spam

    LAME

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    paininthe - Posted 6:30 am PST 02/27/09 (454 Posts)  Report Spam

    $199 now!

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    nitemeer - Posted 6:45 am PST 02/27/09 (647 Posts)  Report Spam

    $299! still
    the keyboard is way too small

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