MSI Wind U90 Product Page

The product page for the upcoming 8.9″ MSI Wind U90 netbook is now online. The U90 is the smaller version of the 10.2″ MSI Wind U100 and shares the same design, chassis, keyboard, etc. (the major difference being the display – you can see the … Read more

MSI Wind U100 – USB DVD Drive

MSI has designed a new USB-powered ultra-slim DVD drive for netbooks (for MSI’s Wind U100 but I’m sure they wouldn’t mind selling a bunch to Acer and Eee PC owners as well). It’s called the MSI Wind Drive, with an aluminum chassis, and it’s not … Read more

Netbooks, Pricing, and the Used Market

Asus Eee PC 904 I’ve written about this in the past – the pricing of some netbooks / sub-notebooks and how some of them seemed a bit high. Now we are reaching a point where there is some real competition (from Acer and Lenovo). Last month, we saw a $100 rebate on certain 8.9″ Intel Mobile Celeron-powered Asus Eee PC 900 models. It went on for the full month at several online retailers in the US and it dropped the price below $450 in some cases.

The same $100 rebate (or rather a new one) is currently available on some models at Amazon.com through the end of the month. It’s also showing up for various models of the Asus Eee PC 900 at MWave.com as well as at Buy.com, and OnSale.com. A quick check of Amazon UK as well as a few other distributors in Europe doesn’t show the rebates (or price drops), but I’m sure we’ll see something in regards to pricing at some point.

With September coming up in less than a few weeks, and with the Acer Aspire One available now (at $379 and $399), and the Lenovo IdeaPad S10 shipping in September for around $430 (and presumably the Dell Inspiron 910), it really makes me wonder when Asus is going to permanently drop the price on these things (as well as drop the prices on their Atom-based lines, along with MSI on the Wind netbooks).

I’m not going to debate the pros and cons of the Intel Mobile Celeron in these things versus the Intel Atoms in the Asus Eee 901 (and the above mentioned Acer and Lenovo models). The average consumer that this market is oriented towards is not going to know the difference or care. I take that back. They’ll hear “1.6GHz Atom versus 900MHz Celeron” or “120GB HDD versus 20GB SSD” and they’ll respond accordingly.

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MSI Wind U100 – Change in Touchpads

Over on the MSIWind.net forums, some users are reporting that MSI has changed the touchpad that is currently (or was) shipping with the 10.2″ MSI Wind U100. This is in reference to batches with the 6-cell battery (and possibly earlier) switching from Synaptic touchpads to … Read more

MSI Wind U100 – Netbook Love Edition

Something that’s kind of cool (and kind of reminds us of the original intent of the netbooks / sub-notebooks), MSI is rolling out a special edition of the 10″ MSI Wind U100. It’s being referred to as the “MSI Wind Netbook Love Edition”. This new … Read more