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MSI Wind Ultra Portable Laptop Review

Entries for August, 2008

Good to have accessories

I was thinking what accessories would I’ll be needing along with the MSI Wind that I am expecting. Some of the ones that I could think of are:
1. Wireless Mouse. This for me is a must have. I don’t get along well with the touch pads of laptops. I’ve saw pretty nice and small ones [...]

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Wind is beeing shipped

The people in the USA that have been waiting for the Wind have a reason to be happy. MSI has shipped all pre-ordered units including the much too long waited 6-cell battery ones. Some say that the 6 cell ones have suffered some changes. Hope somebody that bought one will share with us this details.

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LG Wind ??

Something interesting got to me, that LG was planing to attack the netbook market and for that they will solicit MSI. After the success of the Wind this is kind of obvious. Engadget say that the new notebook will have the name “X110″ and will have a 8.9-inch panel, 120GB hard drive, 2GB of RAM [...]

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MSI Wind Keyboard

As I said in this post before I discovered the Wind my first option was an Asus EEE PC. I’ve had a change to see it live and I was extremely disappointed especially by the keyboard. It just felt wrong. Why? Because it’s too damn small for my hands and I think that is too [...]

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MSI Wind U90

A new version of MSI Wind has appeared on the MSI site, and it’s name is U90. I think that the name represents the screen size that is smaller then the one on the U100. U90 has a 8.9″ screen. The specs are the same, the only thing that is different is that this one [...]

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MSI Wind vs. Asus EEEPC

This was my dilemma too like many others that needed a small but efficient notebook ( or netbook ) especially for Internet & stuff. In my country Asus EEEPC was the first to appear. As I saw it I knew that this can be a real help for me when I’m not at home and [...]

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Mac OS X on MSI Wind

In the other post I’ve put a video with Ubuntu running on a MSI Wind. Now we can see how this netbook handles with the Mac OS X. Some said that it isn’t suitable for the MSI but I think that If you have the White version and if you put a sticker on the [...]

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Ubuntu on the netbook

If the Windows XP is not good enough for you, you can put Ubuntu on your MSI Wind without any problems. It can handle all the features of it very well especially if you have the maximum RAM ( 2 GB ). Here is a video with a little demonstration:

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How to upgrade your MSI Wind

Here is a video about how you can upgrade your MSI Wind’s memory, hard disk or other parts. Enjoy!

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Battery Mod

Here is a topic on the msiwind.net forums where you can read how you can transform your 3 cell battery into a 7400mAh Battery with 8 hours of life. The article is very well written and I think that everyone with a little bit of hardware knowledge will be able to make this upgrade. I [...]

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