Last week, I was ranting about the Dell Mini 12 which is based on the Poulsbo architecture, with a Linux incompatible GMA 500 GPU. It turns out that the folks at dell Dell are smart : they are using an Intel GMA 900 instead, which is fully compatible with Linux.
Still, it only has 1GB of RAM, non-upgradable 
NOTE: it is in fact an incompatible GMA500, the GMA900 reference was a mistake on dell’s french website!
thats why i got an eeepc 1000
put in 2gb mem very easy 
Where did you find this information? It’s not clear to me that this should be the case: according to the Wikipedia page and the Intel website, the GMA 900 is a generation older than the GMA 950, which is the graphics core in the 945GSE chipset used in the Mini 9, Eee 1000, etc. It’s possible, I guess, that it presents to the driver as a GMA 900 – some sort of compatibility mode until a real driver is released?
I guess I’ll know soon enough – my Mini 12 shows up tomorrow, and the plan is to replace Vista with Fedora 10.
It was on Dell’s french website, but it sems that all other Dell website have a GMA500 listed. Please let me know as soon as you get it! Looks like my errata wasn’t needed in the end.
Steven
I got my Mini 12 today and I can confirm that it does come with the GMA 500, which I can also confirm does not support Linux yet. I have posted on the Xorg mailing list to see if I can get some info on the status of this driver, but if it turns out that Dell is planning on changing the chipset with some of their later models, I may seriously consider sending mine back.
And why it’s sold at the Dell french site with Ubuntu 8.04?
http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=n12m1205&c=fr&l=fr&s=dhs&cs=frdhs1&kc=productdetails~laptop-inspiron-12
Linux versions should begin to appear everywhere this month, this seems good news as it means Linux display drivers have been developed.