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May 14 2008
MSI Wind becomes the $400 subnotebook to beat
Shared by Josh Bancroft
This just got a lot more interesting than the yet-to-come Atom version of the Asus Eee PC.
MSI have just released pricing details for the Wind, and it's looking very good. Americans will get the 10" Wind on the 3rd of June, featuring a 1024x600 LCD, an 80GB HDD, a 1.3 megapixel webcam and a six-cell battery specced for 5.5 hours of life, along with Intel's new Atom processor. If you want the Linux version with 512MB of RAM, the price will only be $399. You'll pay an astonishing $150 premium for XP and an extra half-gig of RAM though for the Windows flavor, which costs $549. Just slap Ubuntu on the damn thing and save yourself a couple bills.
Despite its gauche white plastic shell, the MSI Wind subnotebook may have just ripped the lashing, fluid-spurting spine out of the Asus Eee's market share and become the subnotebook to beat. $399 for a subnotebook that costs less than $400 and has six hours of battery life? Sold.
MSI unveils pricing, launch date for Wind laptop [Tech Report]
Image: Crunchgear
