Dell’s Inspiron Mini 1018 netbook has finally made its way across the pond to our friends in Europe. Looks like the touchpad has separate left and right buttons, while the processor gets a slight bump to an Intel Atom N455 1.66GHz chip with support for DDR3 memory.

Those changes come with a regular 10.1-inch display at 1024 x 600 resolution, 1GB RAM, a 160GB hard drive and Windows 7 Starter Edition. You can pick it up for around 279 Euros and above, depending on the configuration.

Turns out that the Dell Streak works pretty well with a 5″ Bluetooth keyboard like the Logitech diNovo Mini. They can spend the night attached and then go their separate ways in the morning if they desire.

The Streak does come with Bluetooth, making it easy to synchronize with the keyboard and eliminating your typing troubles. The Logitech diNovo Mini will cost about $100, but finding a used one for a bit cheaper can also happen.

Dell has partnered with Major League Baseball to celebrate the 2010 MLB All Star Game. Players and members of the coaching staff were each given a Dell Inspiron Mini 10 netbook that came customized with MLB Teams, featuring fan artwork from the Dell Design Studio.

MLB fans can personalize their notebooks with one of 95 different MLB team designs. An optional Digital TV Tuner will allow owners to watch highlights of the games while watching the actual live games. The lid designs, available on Dell’s Mini and Studio laptops, range from subtle team logos in one corner to full-cover designs that scream fanatic.

Dell has upgraded its core Inspiron line with not only good looks, but also some extras never seen before with Dell. They now sport a full ‘chiclet’ keyboard and some unique color options. The underside of the keyboard can be color-matched, and HP-style imprints can sit on the palm rest.

The display has a Mini 10-style hinge that can bend further back than the previous design. They ship with 14, 15 and 17 inch displays with either Core i3 or Core i5 processors. Integrated graphics are standard, but you can upgrade to a 1GB dedicated Mobility Radeon HD graphics chipset or Intel’s Wireless Display and up to 8GB of RAM and a 640GB disk.

Also known as the Mini 5, the Streak will be launching first in Europe with O2 Telefonica, and then “later this summer” with AT&T in the States, according to CEO Michael Dell. NOT on a Baseball field, wearing nothing but a cap.

Dell showed the device off at the Citrix Synergy conference. We know that it runs Android, but they won’t say which version it will actually be. Screen-size is a 5-inch capacitive display, and there’s also be a 5-megapixel camera.

When it comes to booting up your netbook, how fast is fast enough? Windows users are used to waiting anywhere from a few seconds to minutes depending on your system’s configuration platform. Any recent computer has a decent start time, but if you are impatient, you might want to consider Ubuntu Light.

This version will boot up your netbook in just 7 seconds. It’s a full-fledged Linux distribution which offers all the usual tools that come with a desktop OS, like your web browser, office suite, communication and security features and compatibility with thousands of third party apps. The hardware used to achieve this 7 second boot time is a Dell Inspiron Mini 10v that runs on an 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor.

Some images of the Dell Mini 3T1 and Mini 3iX were recently spotted on a Chinese regulator’s website, where they have already received network access licenses for China. That suggests their debut in that part of the world in the very near future.

The Mini 3T1 will support the Chinese 3G standard, TD-SCDMA, so it will most likely be available from China Mobile. The Mini 3iX supports 3G connectivity (WCDMA) which is used by carrier China Unicom, and has rounded corners and a large display.

Both Dell and HP were late getting into the netbook market. The two companies ultimately offered netbooks, but by that time, they were not the most popular machines in the segment. Major computer makers were also lamenting the fact that price of the netbooks drove profits down.

DigiTimes cites sources that claim both Dell and HP are set to reduce their investment s in the 10-inch netbook market. These sources claim that HP may even vacate the market altogether.

Dell’s new 15-inch Precision M4500 with a Core i5-520M 2.5GHz starts at $1,549 and still packs in NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M Graphics. Realistically it will cost you a bit more. I mean, you’ll want to upgrade 2GB of slow RAM, a 1366 x 768 LCD, and there’s no WiFi at that price.

You’ll want to go for options like a secondary 64GB SSD minicard drive and Precision ON. So you can expect it to be in the $2,500+ range.

Dell has been peddling its Android powered Mini 3 smartphone around to carriers for a while now. It looks like AT&T has finally bit and will be offering the handset as the Dell Aero soon.

The Aero is hailed as the lightest Android smartphone around. It will operate on the AT&T 3G network and will be one of the few Android devices on AT&T.

Everybody is outing their tablets. Dell has unveiled the latest prototype of the Dell Mini 5 Tablet. The new device features a 5-inch touchscreen display with a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, a 5-megapixel camera with dual LED flash and a front facing camera.

Some other specs include WiFi, 3G and Bluetooth connectivity and the Dell Mini 5 runs the Android 1.6 operating system. We should have more updates on this one soon, so stay tuned.

As of today, the new Inspiron Mini 10 is available to order at Dell’s US website. It features a 92 percent full-size keyboard, a 9.5 hour battery, Broadcom’s Crystal HD media accelerator, built-in GPS and an integrated HDTV receiver.

There’s also some speculation that we might see a version with a Mobile DTV tuner soon, but that’s just speculation. Starting price is just $299. Of course once you start adding features that will go up up up.

Dell has announced a new version of the Inspiron Mini 10. The new case is designed for a six-cell battery that will deliver nine and a half hours of use without all the bulk. Inside it features that next-gen Atom which can be paired with an optional Broadcom Crystal HD video accelerator for HD video playback.

You also have four case colors to choose from, Bluetooth, WWAN, GPS, a TV tuner, and a 1366 x 768 display. Prices start at $299 when it becomes available in early January.

Looks like Google’s Chrome OS will be getting some support from Dell. The company is making an experimental version of the Chromium OS available for its Mini Inspiron 10v netbook. The OS will be available as a USB key image file, but they are warning users that it’s a risk since it has only gone through minimal testing.

Some of the current known problems include taking up to 10 minutes before the network connection manager can find wireless networks and other things freezing as well. The 8GB image can be transferred to a USB drive only by using a Linux system.

Companies are starting to get more into environmental packaging. The latest is Dell. Dell gets just a little greener by adding bamboo in its product packaging portfolio. And they are the first in the PC industry to do it.

It applies to all Dell Inspiron Mini 10 and Mini 10v netbooks shipped from today onward. Bamboo is used as product cushions cradling the Mini within an outer box that is made from 25% post-consumer materials. Starting early next year, Dell hopes to expand their use of bamboo packaging to a wider range of it’s products.