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The following information was included in the official Dell blog entry announcing the Mini 9…

If you can wait until 6 a.m. Central tomorrow, Sept. 5, you’ll be able to get a Mini for only $99 with the purchase of a Studio 15, XPS M1530 or XPS M1330 laptop through 6 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9 (U.S. only).

As I have been saying since these Dell devices were first rumored, this is the power of massive Channel sales and long standing vendor relationships at work. This deal is through Dell’s website but I would expect to see similar or better campaigns concerning the Mini 9 through brick and morter retailers in the months to come.

Add to that news the following, reported by Steven Vaughan-Nichols at his Computerworld blog…

While Dell isn’t saying which wireless carrier they’re working with, John Thode, Dell’s VP of small-screen consumer devices has said that Dell will announce a wireless carrier partnership soon that will get you a Mini 9 of your own for a reduced price or free for signing long-term wireless service contract.

Dell can afford to use their Netbooks as a loss leader or a value added element in larger deals, giving massive discounts and incentives that smaller netbook makers simply can’t. Good for the consumer, good for the retailer, good for Dell and good for netbooks…bad for MSi and others.

(Source – Dell blog)

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By day a department manager and writer for a major network device vendor...by night Zealot stalks the mean magnetic streets, striking fear into the hearts of bandwidth abusers and theme park mascots. Zealot has been involved with mobile devices for more than a decade now, starting off with dumb phones, moving to PDAs and then to smartphones, notebooks and netbooks with the odd PMP thrown in. Most of his mobile time currently is spent on a Treo Pro, Zune HD, Thinkpad T61, Gigabyte M912M or a Hackintoshed Compaq Mini 704. He proudly groks the Geek community and considers himself a Neo Maxi Zune Dweebie (thanks Will Wheaton!).