Asus EEE PC 901 v's MSI wind v's HP Mini-Note 2133

[voteboo]

901's by far the best between the two of them. Battery life, performance and size are some of the key words you look for in both hardwares; netbooks.901 battery life by default is:8.30Hrs. MSI battery life by default is:2 hrs or $100 bucks extra if you want the extended battery or 6 cells battery.Eeepc is 2 to 3 inchs smaller in size compare to the hardware of the MSI.The performance is basically the same since they both have a n260 Atom Intel CPU. Storage solely depends on your needs and money.

[GoldfishFilms]

@voteboo I'd rather have an msi over an eee anyday, if you cant afford the msi, go for the rebadged advent which is avaliable for 80 pounds pre owned here in the uk on ebay

[voteboo]

@GoldfishFilms Seriously, I never heard that brand before.

Have you tried it before? is it good?

[DediXD]

MSI Wind is the best.

[DEUSwunz]

the acer mini will kill booth of them

[benspilk900]

Acer? yuck there like the great value of pc brands. Msi wind owns netbooks since you can overclock it and have 2 gig of ram.

[DEUSwunz]

FUK NO MY DELL WILL SMASH ON DAT

[time2wakeuppeople]

i just purchased the msi wind and i'm not sure what overclocking is or how to do it. Does this void your warranty?

How does it help your machine?

[benspilk900]

Overclocking is when you run the processor at a higher frequency than it was set at from the factory. This does not void your warranty and is actually built in to some versions of the wind (i had to flash my bios to do it, but my friends did it from the factory) Overclocking it made it noticeably faster and play games better

[HunterHourglass]

Hmmm...... Hey, so if I wanna game, would going for a netbook, or a notebook, or whatever they're called (The tiny ones, lol =P) be a bad idea? Or not? Because you said that you played games on it. Or should I lean towards a lapop? =\ Please help! =O

[benspilk900]

probably just a full size notebook, its pretty hard if not impossible to get modern games to work decent on these

[BIKOKarate]

Why oh why oh why can't they give us the build quality of the HP with the functionality of the Wind?

[cebukitty]

actually they did...check out the HP1000...its the same as the HP mini 2133 only its running on intel atom 1.6ghz :D

[BIKOKarate]

...HP1000 - also ran - daft mouse - can't get my thumbs to the left/right and it doesn't have that nice alu case...

[phitran3009]

my msi wind is 160gb Plus about 250gb xD with a self powered external harddrive.

All cost me about 782 buck O-O so its about 410gb.

[bdegrande]

The Asus 901 was the best choice for me. I am used to small computers, had a Toshiba Libretto, so the keyboard and screen size feel big to me. It had the most features that I wanted standard - Bluetooth, 802.11n wireless, solid state drive, multitouch on the trackpad (similar to the Macbook/iPod), and, most importantly a 6 cell battery. With the price drop, it's now under $450 new. Even the Ethernet port, 10/100 on the specs, shows up as a gigabit port in the system info on my machine.

[fleathedoosh]

i have a 4gb ram, Asus EEE pc black.

I do love it, but i would prefer to have windows as at the moment im having difficulty using softwear with the asus program. But still a great notebook.

[appcookie]

4gb ram? You mean SSD? It only supports 2gb ram at most. How'd you get more?

[pukapa]

Yes, we all know the EEE PC is the smallest, but bear in mind that the very few inches the MSI has more are because of its 10inches display, which is definitely an asset the EEE doesn't have.

[offiec]

maybe not this one, but check out eee 1000h

[sircanegiem]

Exactly.

If you don't like the 8.9" screen on the EEE 901, then look at the 1000H. Standard hard disk drive, 10" screen, keyboard 92% of normal size, and a battery that lasts twice as long as the Wind -- and it can be had for $400 on ebay.

Also, the Wind doesn't support 802.11n, has little to no room for extra mods (usb hub?), and doesn't support either multi-touch on the touchpad or a touchscreen add-on.

[Psss76]

great video! which has the best weight? ehehe

[lucario700]

can any1 tell me which is the best from the 3 laptops? and thanx :)

[Asaweb]

Depends on you preferences

[e61i]

msi is a best of the three. eee pc 900 is still but hp mininote is the worst netbook of all time. hp mini note has video play black problems. hp mini note sucks. the best so far is msi or eee pc.

[klingondude]

at 1:10 is that an XO laptop?!

[mozzmanau]

Why anyone would touch anything from MSI is beyond me.

[xainish]

get a life and stop replying to every msi vid

[1van4o0o]

are they soo bad????

i think their quality is reasonable...

[yashirobi123]

i had never problems with msi products! its the same with apple and other well known brands, there are always people who hate same without reasons....

[tak178]

This computer I am using now has an MSi board. No issues.  Better than the last ASUS I purchased. :)

[jshek00]

I have just got the MSI Wind U100, I am quite pleased with it, the screen is brighter than any other laptop I have owned, the performance is quite good, it weighs 1.2kg so it's not too heavy, there are some problems but they can be easily fixed by updating the bios to the latest version (1.05). Only thing I dislike is the battery life, a 3 cell battery lasts 2 hours, although I hear the 6 cell is coming out in late August. Overall, brilliant laptop, 8/10. HP is slow, dont buy it.lol

[TheJackHoles]

i got the asus eee pc not to long ago and later found out about msi but is the eee pc better but it doesnt hav a ot of memory?

[jshek00]

which one? 700? 900? 901? 1000? 1000H?

[bmachy]

Depends on needs.

Pros of Wind

-Good sized keyboard

-Bigger HDD

Negs of Wind

-Normal HDD not flash, so therefore non silent

-Bigger than 700/900 series

But with the eee PC 1000, especially the H range they start becoming similar. With the eee pc having similar sized keyboard and bigger HDD. I think 45 for flash and 80 for normal HDD.

So it all depends on usage.

[iinfiniteammo]

MSI Wind enjoys long walks on the beach.

[ScienceMag]

why can't you talk about the notebooks rather than just wave them around and play elevator music? Not very useful.

[conicsnet]

Thanks for the advice, we will try it on another video :)

[jshek00]

Yes, make an in depth comparison. :) we like that kind of stuff.

[donatxak47]

hahaha :D thats true, lol elevator music, usless machine hand-measuring...

[risohayne]

I am buying this wind not later July 18, 2008. Please contact me 09228285918. I am looking for the best deal. Together with it I am buying DVD writer (external) for it and optical mouse. If if possible, I would like to upgrade its 3cell to 6 cell.

[conicsnet]

Please contact us via our website

[vd853]

such a accurate way to measure the weight by bouncing it up and down, but good size comparison.

[Nuushoes]

bla bla bla

asus eee 1000 comes with 40gb SOLID STATE and Intel Atom!!!

[conicsnet]

Asus EEE PC 901 (1.1Kg) : Intel Atom 1.6GHz

Asus EEE PC 1000 (1.3Kg) : Intel Atom 1.6GHz

MSI Wind (1Kg) : Intel Atom 1.6GHz

HP mini-note 2133 (1.27kg): Via C7 1.2GHz - 1.6GHz

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EEE PC's SSD is nice, but the speed of it is nothing to rave about, I'd prefer a HDD until "REAL" SSD price drop :P

[raoul3650]

MSI Wind definitely bigger in size than 901.

Most likely I will rather get the 901.

I have sold my 701 recently due to the screen size is too small for comfort surfing.Can't stand the left/right scrolling when looking at the webpage.

[conicsnet]

for sure, any of these computers are going to be easier for web browsing in terms of the screen size, but for carry anywhere laptops EEE PC 701 did get the footprint 100% right in my opinion.

I think people craving any of these tiny laptops owe some thanks to Asus for having the balls to go the EEE PC route and in turn making them all more affordable...

[hunt577]

Maybe I am completely off base here, but I don't think Asus is sticking to the original deal here. The 1000 Eee PC will supposedly retail for over $600 when it comes out in July. It will still only have about 18 GB of hard drive space. Meanwhile the MSI Wind coming out early July will have 80 GB hard drive, 1.6 Ghz processor, etc. and will retail for $499. Hmmmm, I'll go for the lower priced one and deal with it being a few inches bigger for better performance.

[conicsnet]

MSI wind is a much slicker looking package too :)

[mo00o]

i would agree with you, but the weight and size are my concerns. but i do agree with you about asus raising it's prices... and i have noticed the laptops seem to be creeping larger and larger in size?

[LinuxGalore]

HP mininote though has a keyboard you can live with, the EEEPC has this tiny shift key were the mininote has a big almost full sized shift key. Both are good but the mininote is better if you have to type out a long document while on the move.

[wakunahum]

I agree.

I'm not too thrilled about shift keys being moved where they shouldn't be like on the asus.

[mtotho]

@johnmonk66. The point of these computers is to small and portable. Asus could have made the eeepc out of a cheap heavy metal, or led, and made it weigh much more, but they are keeping it light.

[johnmonk66]

hp feels heavy? its called quality. metal weighs more than plastic.

and you should have compared keyboards, the hp is the only one with a keyboard you can type on comfortably

[conicsnet]

to it's credit, the HP does have an excellent keyboard, but it doesn't take most people long to get used to the EEE PC 901 sized keyboard.

you are right, it might be stronger, but I believe HP's weight is quite considerable for this size PC. (I don't think they shouldn't bring their usual "2.5Kg+ monster laptop PC" ideas in to ultra-mobile computing)

[johnmonk66]

for real typing, the asus ketboard is too much work. plus the hp is still under 3 lbs, if that is too heavy you need to exercise more.

and if you bumped up the asus's specs to match the hp it would cost as much, but still have that crappy keyboard.

[jamesjan]

what specs?

The HP runs on the pokey VIA cpu. Other than the harddisk drive which MSI also uses, there isn't ANY performance advantage by HP over any Atom based mini notebooks.

[kinnkster]

Lol at you moving your arms up and down trying to get a feel for the weight :D

[conicsnet]

don't usually carry a set of scales with us :)

maybe the next iPhone will have it

[GuniBulls]

HP feels heavy :-(

Don't know if you were trying to be funny, but the sad face made me laugh :)

I still want a wind though :p

[fftb123]

WHERE DID U BUY RED MSI WIND ?

[conicsnet]

this was at Computex in Taiwan, it's a demo model

[Born2Die83]

Whats chicks in taiwan like?

[conicsnet]

The computex show models this year were nices :)

[HeniuTV]

i love Asus Eee Pc i must get one!!

[conicsnet]

yes, the 901 is a great size 8.9" is nice, the 10" is too big I think... I'll put a video online compare the 8.9" to the 10" (EEE PC 1000)

[HeniuTV]

8.9" is good to me :)

[fftb123]

where did you get red msi wind from ?

[expluizig]

computex 2008, as the video says...twice :P