Dell Mini 10: no RAM upgrades past 1GB

Per Boing Boing the new Dell Mini 10 can have a maximum of 1GB RAM, unlike practically every other model on the market, including its popular sibling Mini 9. There is no obvious rationale for this except that per Microsoft's licensing, Windows XP can't be bundled with machines containing more than 1GB of RAM. As such, for netbooks that come pre-installed with XP, they are crippled with the 1GB RAM limit. For most models, however, the memory upgrade is cheap and easy.

Unfortunately this is not the case with the Mini 10. Which remind us again, Microsoft and Intel have indicated that they plan to take control of how netbooks are sold and configured and killing off Windows XP once and for all is top of the former's todo list.