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ASUS Eee PC 1000H and MSI Wind Compared

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LAPTOP Magazine has put together a head-to-head comparison of the Eee PC 1000H and the MSI Wind NB. Both of these ultraportable laptops feature 10-inch widescreen displays (with a resolution of 1024×600) as well as 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPUs and 80GB hard drives. They also … Read more

MSI Wind Roundup, Availability in the US

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MSI Wind PC Almost two weeks ago, the online MSI store was listing the 10-inch MSI Wind as being available today – June 27th – in the US but that’s not going to happen, unfortunately. Originally it was scheduled for June 16th, 2008. Now it’s looking like the week after next, July 7th or July 8th (coincidentally around the same time as the Eee PC 901 and 1000 launch).

An email was posted to the MSIWind.net forums (via liliputing) from MSI (a North American contact) stating that it would the week of July 7th, “due to the industry wide battery shortage“. The good news (if you want to call it that) is that shipping for the MSI Wind NB from the MSI Online Store will be upgraded to overnight shipping, free of charge. Contact numbers are listed at the link above.

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MSI Wind – Delayed Until June 27, 2008

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Bad news – at least for another week and a half – looks like the MSI Wind is delayed, at least in the US. This appears to be affecting the 10-inch version of the Intel Atom-powered ultraportable notebook. The official MSI Store shows a June … Read more

MSI Expects to Ship 300,000 MSI Wind, Plus SSD Testing

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Digitimes is reporting that Micro-Star International (MSI) expects ship 300,000 – 500,000 of its Atom-Powered MSI Wind netbooks this year. This is based on comments made by MSI’s Chairman, Joseph Hsu. Like Asustek’s President, Hsu thinks that the shortage of Intel’s Atom CPUs will continue … Read more

MSI Wind Available for Pre-Order in US, UK

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Looks like the MSI Wind is available for pre-order in the US. The 8.9-inch Intel Atom-powered mini-notebook has definitely been generating a lot of interest recently. There are two models, the U100-Windows and the U100-Linux. One big difference, at least for now, the Linux version … Read more