Netbooks have been called a "race to the bottom". If you were in any doubt that the winner will be the company that manages to make the cheapest, lowest specced machine that will still shift units, then stop. Your uncertainty will be assuaged, massaged away by Dell's seductively priced Mini 9n, a $250 version of its successful netbook.

What does the "n" stand for? "Nothing", of course. The 9n has stripped out memory, storage and webcam, resulting in a blind, slow and easy to fill computer, with just 512Mb of RAM and a 4GB solid state drive. My MacBook Pro has 4GB of RAM alone.

Still, it is cheap, and if you are into this new-fangled "cloud computing" business, this could be for you. In fact, the decent keyboard alone might be enough to sell it. That and its sweet, Mac-beating screen.

Product page [Dell via Blond Bombshell Gadgets]

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