Been brushing the idea of a netbook off for months now? Lets see you ignore this. Hot on the heels of the Inspiron Mini 10 going on sale, Dell has lowered the barrier to entry on its marginally smaller Mini 9 to a rather amazing $199. For under two bills, you can now grab yourself an Obsidian Black 8.9-inch netbook with a 1.6GHz Atom CPU, WiFi, a 4-cell battery, GMA950 graphics, 512MB of RAM, a 4GB SSD and a copy of Ubuntu Linux. Of course, that price heads up a hundred bucks if you just cant live without Windows XP, but if theres ever been a time for learning how to deal within an open source environment, wed say this is it. Good luck with that whole "resisting the temptation" thing.
