MSI Wind hands on

[AleseaStokesene38]

uuhuhh i am really bored and need some action... Anyone feelin the same way

[playdough1322]

no it doesnt hav a cd rom in it.....

thats the biggest con on net books there just to small for a cd rom....

so youl have to transfer all your stuff on a thumb drive...

or download it from the internet..  taylor,

[kjkolkowski]

you can buy a USB optical drive, or if you are on a home network, you can "share" a drive with another computer.

[Jfy88]

Does this have an optical drive(CD drive) built-in?

[Macipo]

No, there's no optical drive built-in.

[techgorilla]

Hi minipcpro how do i get my hands on one of them? here in usa

[ChocolateCake9293]

test

[booshgrrl]

well this want the Msi I was hoping for.

[CynicalPhuker]

I have a Flipstart that has a 1.1 GHZ Pentium M Processor with 512Mb RAM shared and it is great for many PC games. This one should be better I guess.

[Kev50027]

I doubt it, the Atom processor pretty much sucks with everything. It would be interesting to compare an Atom to a Pentium M or Core Solo, or say.. a Celeron that happens to reside in the EEE.

[warzazette]

u are all wrong ! the atom is a great econom cpu and u can do severall appz with it such as firefox, mp3, photoshop at the same time

[Kev50027]

Sure, I never said it doesn't make a great economical CPU, I just said it has absolutely terrible performance. Go ahead, do a benchmark, it is significantly slower than the Celeron M they put in the original EEE, and a fraction of the speed of any Core based laptop or desktop processor. I own a Acer Aspire One, and it runs things just fine, but that's because it's not running Vista and playing games.

[thebadwolf89]

vista is much more a matter of RAM rather than CPU.

im getting a wind next weekend and i ordered an extra gb RAM, to but in så i come to a total of 2 gb RAM. and then im planning on running vista on it. i hear that the battery time with it is almost 3 hours with vista vs. the 2 hours with xp.

[craigandrews88]

what kind of camera is that

[AmigaFalcon]

Hi MicroPC, I'm in the UK. You say this baby's due 2nd June. But in which country?

[AmigaFalcon]

I meant 3rd June

[minipcpro]

they gonna launch it on the Computex in Taipei on the 3rd of June

[celderian]

what is the battery life?

[CynicalPhuker]

Expansys com will be stocking this in the UK for £363.09 around Sat 19th July. Not sure I will get one though.

[fftb123]

is it a light laptop ?

and is it bigger then the asus eee 900?

[minipcpro]

its a little bit bigger than the eee pc 900 but this one offers a ten inch display..

these devices are called mini-notes or netbooks.

[Waldbrand]

i love this...

damn, i just bought another 12" MSI S210 to replace my 270...

[ouijaouija]

which size screen is this one?

[cocainet]

10"

[dpuig77]

any one know the release date for this wind..?

[minipcpro]

first of all the official launch will be on the 3rd of June (when Computex starts)

But they are expecting the rollout in Asia and North-America in mid/end of June.

Europe will get its Wind netbooks in July

[shaolindreams]

this is making to reconsider getting the atom eeepc.. need to see more !

[DrPhizzle]

What battery is connected to it? the 3 or 6 cell?

[palle04]

I think they used the 3cell for this review

[pfirri]

It's a 6 cell battery according to the google translation: "The team that tested on this occasion has a battery of six cells."

[mikeccuk2006]

omg what's the pi-1m time?

[knetteroo]

33 second if you use the conversion vector.

I don't have the power Scotty.

hahaha

[mikeccuk2006]

not bad my oced pentium did 31 sec, ofcorse the atom is a dual core :D thats why

[minipcpro]

nope it's not a dualcore but the diamondville core offers hyperthreading.

[mikeccuk2006]

so its like one of thoes fake dual core pentium-d's?

[minipcpro]

yes ;)