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New Wind coming in April
MSI WILL LAUNCH THE WIND U123 in April according to Laptop Mag. The 10.2 inch netbook will be powered by Intel's Atom N280 processor and will be upgradeable to 2GB of RAM.
And it looks like MSI is getting fidgety in the overcrowded 10-inch market now that it's fighting for elbow room with the likes of Dell, HP and Acer.
“Everyone is playing in the 10-inch game and now the most important factors are brand, features, and design," said MSI sales boss Andy Tung. "We are going to fine tune the price, performance, and design. This is our foundation and we are going to do our best to maintain and increase market share.”
But when asked if MSI would break out of the 10-inch market and produce laptops with bigger screens, Tung remarked, "There are rumours of 11.6 and 12-inch solutions from other companies. We have that in development and can bring that out of the gate.” µ
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I would say so:
http://www.amazon.com/MSI-VR220-004US-12-1-Inch-Dual-Core-Processor/dp/B001L5U0SA/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1238676451&sr=8-2
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http://www.mwave.com/mwave/DeepSearch_v2.asp?scriteria=vr220&ALL=y&TP=
The Dimdows XP licence for netbooks prohibits using it with more than 1GiB of RAM. Presumably Dimdows 7 Starter Edition will be the same. So what OS can this thing run with 2GiB RAM? Full Windows 7? Can’t see anyone wanting to pay full price for that.
Can't they just make a laptop that doesn't double as a pregnancy prevention method for men?
The Inq calls them legwarmers, which means they heat up to over 100 degrees, body temperature being about 98.6 degrees. And a man's testicles prefer a temperature of around 85 degrees or so(sorry, I'm an American, so it's in Fahrenheit). What the world really needs is a laptop that runs really cool when it's only asked to display web pages or do word processing.
Upgrade of cpu to dual core 2.2-2.5ghz for approx £80, ATI/Intel.
Upgrade of gpu to mobile ATI48350/NV9800 for approx £100.
Upgrade of RAM to 4GB for £50.
Total of £230 over current £220 pricing.
Result is a gaming for windows laptop for £450.
I'd buy it. Would you?
Build it now so it's here in time for Christmas. This will also be capable of HD movie playback, CAD etc. It will create a new power-netbook market segment, giving birth to an increase in sales.
There are loads of gamers who would like a gaming laptop but don't want to pay £700+ for one. This 12 inch monster could do it all pretty well.
A cheap gaming laptop, a perfect new product for a global recession.
Only the netbook and ultra compact laptop hardware is merging. The far more important marketing buzzwords are remaining distinct.
looks like netbook & ultra compact laptop market segments are merging
Wtf they smoking, I have upgraded plenty of U120s to 2GB ram, you just open the bottom (something MSI techs were quick to tell me DOES NOT void warranty, despite breaking the warranty void tag down there) and slot in a shiny kingston 1GB ddr2 800 stick...