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Originally Posted by dejongj  I'll admit it, I really don't get the Dell Mini 5....Too big to put comfortably in your pocket, unless you wear clothes like a clown....But yet too small to do any actual work on it and when carrying a brief case you may as well get the size of an iPad or a laptop.... |
If you look at the lower link Dell is doing two other sizes as well. 5” is a bit less capable for some things but might be fine for others. An ipad or similar I wouldn’t be happy about getting out in some places in case it got stolen. A 5” device I might keep in my car’s glovebox or in the top of a daysack for similar things I’d use a PSP for. Music, gaming, maybe contacts, alarm clock, photos etc. I can currently use my phone for the internet and that’s much smaller than 5”. I wonder how many Archos 5’s have been sold? This months PC Pro is quite interesting. Apparently Dell has done some market research as to the sort of people that would actually buy an ipad type product and is going off that. The article isn’t on line yet but Dell reckons male gadget obsessed male 20-30 somethings would buy such a product and female housewives.
Finally how much are we talking? I wouldn’t pay £500 for a product as for that much I’d rather get a new laptop or smart phone or something else for that much. £200 I’d buy it as that’s around my impulse buy price and I wouldn’t worry if I didn’t actually use it too much. Somewhere in between I’d have to think about.
PCPro perfects the ipad:
PC Pro perfects the iPad | PC Pro blog