Big screen; excellent keyboard; good all-round specification
Puny battery ; screen hinges could be stiffer; needs a BIOS update out of the box
Though not quite as faithful a netbook as the Acer Aspire One or Eee PC 701, the MSI Wind takes extends the idea to its sensible limit, though the cheaper, rebadged Advent 4211 is better value. ...
With the competition largely failing to deliver, the Wind’s main rival remains the Asus Eee PC 901. As we mentioned in our review of the 901, the specifications and performance are very similar, and both machines have key advantages. If battery life...
Atom processor, Power efficient, Nice keyboard and screen, Overclocking
No optical drive,
The laptop market has changed in recent months.That was due to the introduction of the Asus Eee PC, which single-handedly created the low-cost mini-laptop market segment.To support this market, Intel has now released its Atom processor, designed specif...
Abstract: Although the Winds display has a resolution of 1,024x600 pixels like Asuss Eee PC 901 and Acers Aspire, the 10in screen is over an inch larger than the displays on those laptops. It may not sound like much, but the larger screen is much easier on...
The MSI Wind is arguably the best netbook on the market. It's stylish, it's easy to type on and it's quick. The wireless connectivity could have been better and the standard battery life is relatively poor, but these are issues you can get around. Wit...
Neat design, Good specifications, Incredible battery life
High introductory price for India
The unit we received was a Linux edition. It packs in Novell’s Suse Linux 10 Enterprise, a fairly stable and capable OS. As such we have deferred our benchmarks of the MSI Wind for an upcoming shootout where we plan to compare the XP editions of the...
Good 10-inch screen, Comfortable keyboard (for a Netbook), Very good battery life, 80 GB storage space, Good performance, Windows XP bundled.
Build quality could have been better.
The MSI Wind model reviewed above is available for a price of Rs. 23,000 excluding taxes. Theres another low-end model, which has 512 MB RAM instead of 1 GB, a 3-cell battery instead of a 6-cell, a 0.3 mega-pixel webcam instead of a 1.3 mega-pixel an...
