First Reviews of the MSI Wind Ultra-Portable Laptop

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:Motherboard

[Brian Gordon]

I'd generally steer clear of anything with a relic of a "Turbo" button..

I read it and thought

[gerf]

"Um, aren't Atoms all single core?"

Or taking it one step further ...

[Krishnoid]

A wind-up laptop?

Back in my day...

[Lord Byron II]

...the "overclock" button was known as Turbo and the only reason we used it was because our 386's went too damn fast!

Re:Motherboard

[mr_mischief]

If your car has a button for the turbo, you may have installed it incorrectly. ;-)

I don't know...

[pokeyburro]

...329 pounds doesn't seem very portable to me...

Re:page

[LynnwoodRooster]

You clearly don't hold a pencil in one hand while reading things. Not all of us have two free hands lying about.

A pencil? May I suggest something to help [enzyte.com] grow that pencil to something more substantial...

Re:Motherboard

[berashith]

Not so quick. The turbo button in my 80s Civic was mislabeled AC, but I think the only incorrect installation was the light itself. If I turned off the AC light, the car could actually climb a hill with passengers in it.

Re:I read it and thought

[Yvan256]

Yeah, but the electrons are like math co-processors and graphic accelerators and such...