On January 9th at a special press event at CES 2009 in Las Vegas, Dell unveiled the Dell Inspiron Mini 10 netbook. It's a successor to the hugely popular Inspiron Mini 9 and Inspiron Mini 12 netbooks, which emphasized affordability and portability.

The 10-inch screen is large for a netbook but small for a regular laptop, but its 720p resolution is unusually high for its size. The laptop features an "edge-to-edge" keyboard, which is as large as is possible, giving you more room to type accurately. It was also originally supposed to come with a built-in TV tuner which was missing at launch, but which was subsequently released as a $50 add-on on May 21, 2009.

The Dell Mini 10 ships with an optional mobile broadband internet connection and a multi-touch trackpad. It runs on the Intel Atom processor and a gigabyte of RAM. That's not enough for high-end tasks, but it'll do well enough for web browsing, e-mail, and other simple tasks.

In July of 2009, Dell announced that the Mini 10 would get an optional Dell Wireless 700 location solution. This bit of hardware includes both Wi-Fi and AGPS, so the Mini 10 can usually figure out where it is for location tagging and map navigation.

Configurations start at a relatively affordable $399 directly from Dell.

On December 21st, 2009, Dell introduced an upgrade version of the laptop that offers a slew of new options, including four new colors, a Broadcam HD Video Accelerator for greatly improved HD video performance, compatibility with 6-cell batteries, a TV tuner, WWAN and GPS, and a display resolution bump up to 1366 x 768. It also features the new Intel Atom N450.