Comments on: MSI Wind Mini Laptop Netbook Notebook Computer

By: Brock Atkinson

Brock Atkinson — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:09:00 +0000

I bought myself an MSi Wind U100 just before Christmas, and it has come in handy so incredibly much; considering I’m a student, and am studying an IT degree, I’m moving between lectures and classes all day, and carting around one of the bigger laptops starts to get annoying (considering all my classmates have heavy gaming laptops).

The true beauty about it is that it’s powerful enough to run the essential programs – the entire office suite, web browsers, and a host of other programs that come in handy, yet it’s not powerful enough to play gaming applications (hence, less time wasted at school).

It’s also light enough to carry in one hand and type in the other, and has a battery that lasts between 4 and 5 hours, which makes it long enough for you to do some serious work on it (even still, I would want a lot more).

It’s seriously the most amazing thing I’ve bought, computer-wise, for as long as I can remember.

By: actiontele

actiontele — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:49:55 +0000

I work in retail and we sell “netbooks” along with assorted Wintel units and Macbooks.
The buyers of netbooks seem to be split between pure price shoppers and toy buyers (as gifts for others or self).
Mercifully, no one really expects to do anything useful with one of these. Popular customer comment: “its a glorified Blackberry without the phone”.
When I started using a Blackberry, I noticed it became a waste of energy to use my notebook at all, since basic web & mail works ok on a handheld.
Without an Aircard and data plan, the netbook user is still tethered to WiFi or wired.
My opinion: another component of the hi tech waste stream.

By: gord

gord — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:30:41 +0000

I bought the ASUS 1000 Chris, which basically has all the same specs as your MSI Wind. (I paid more, but I also bought it before all the other competition came along.) I’m happy with mine. It is the second one as the first I bought was the ASUS 700 with the solid state processor and SD slot. It worked well, but had a much smaller keyboard. IT was also smaller overall, and I didn’t like having to scroll vertically on the 7″ screen.
Are you correct in that your keyboard is (20%) smaller than normal? Mine is 92% of normal, which is about the standard. I don’t find much difference from normal (smaller) keyboards of so-called standard size, except for the placement of the shift key. It is off-standard for a touch typist.

Enjoy!

Gord

By: Jonathan Morris

Jonathan Morris — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:26:54 +0000

I can’t wait to Hackintosh one of these! (And yes, I will buy the OS and put one of the Apple stickers on the computer so it is officially Apple-Labeled.)