Regardless of you call it, a "grown-up netbook," a subnotebook, or a notebook, it is still a pretty good deal, especially considering that they offer 3 year limited warranty on the product compared to just the 1 year that Apple offers on its laptops.

Before the marketing cretins came up with "grown-up netbook", they used to be called laptops.

Nuff sed

A netbook:

* <= 12" screen
* Atom processor
* Light Weight

This is none of those things. It's a subnotebook, and with a 15" screen and 5.5 lbs, barely even qualifies for that.

As far as I can remember, notebook/netbook manufacturers have offered external optical drives with their computers for those people who, for some reason, want to use them. So why is it news that MSI is offering one now? What would be terrible is if they increased the price of the overall package by including those abominable optical drives.