For the moment, MSI's Wind definitively blows away the competition.
Introduction
It’s been almost a year since the original Asus Eee 701 appeared stateside, making traditional ultra-portables look fat with its size and weight, sending prices plunging with its $400 price tag, and triggering a landslide of imitators. In that time, many have tried, but few have succeeded in one upping Asus at its own game. The Wind is MSI’s freshman effort in the emerging subnotebook genre, but the company has managed to run with the best of them by offering a 10-inch display, a fast and efficient Intel Atom processor, and loads of storage.
by Rob Ripley on November 8, 2009:
“Bought mine last week, got rid of the bloatware and installed OpenOffice. Added 1GB of ram for $25 and bought also a CD/DVD external drive $99 in the deal. The broadband modem (from the desktop) works. Transfer of data from the digital camera is so easy....” More...