First Reviews of the MSI Wind Ultra-Portable Laptop 148
Ken E. writes "UK tech website Mobile Computer has an early hands-on review of the MSI Wind — a £329 ultraportable notebook that will compete head-on with the Asus Eee PC 900. In its favour are a 10in screen, better keyboard and, perhaps most important of all, an Intel Atom 1.6GHz dual-core processor (though the site shies away from mentioning this open secret due to what sound like NDA constraints). They like it a lot — is this finally a worthy Eee PC alternative?" (£329 is about $650US at the moment.) An anonymous reader points to CNET's hands-on photo gallery of the Wind; CNET's reviewer says the MSI Wind is the first mini notebook with an overclock button. Barence adds another review at PC Pro.
Re:OLPC (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Motherboard (Score:5, Informative)
MSI is certainly not a top brand but they're not complete junk either, in my experience.
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And that $ change is mostly due to the $ tanking (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Reading in dollars? (Score:5, Informative)
Linux version: $560
WinXP version: $604
and the UK prices as:
Linux version: £320 (~630 USD)
WinXP version: £350 (~690 USD)
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Re:Back in my day... (Score:3, Informative)
$400 in the US (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Reading in dollars? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Reading in dollars? (Score:1, Informative)
Also, I believe that "new kit is always significantly more expensive than the USD/GBP exchange rate would imply." Last time I checked, the exchange rate wasn't capable of rational thought (ha!), and thus can't infer.
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Re:Awesome battery life, assuming it meets up to s (Score:3, Informative)
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As for the enter/backspace key, I hate those huge L-shaped enter keys and a regular-sized backspace key is a problem. In fact, on my Apple keyboard right here, the delete key is just a tad shorter than the return key.
If you rarely use backspace, more power to you. But for the rest of us, a regular-sized backspace key would be too much trouble. In fact, I'd even say that if you can't hit a non-L-shaped enter key, you're the one with a problem.