MSI Wind U100-053US 10-Inch Mini Laptop Review
October 30th, 2009
MSI Wind U100-053US 10-Inch Mini Laptop Review from catbird. Excellent Netbook, This little netbook is wonderful. I bought it to web surf and read email and it’s perfect for that. It is light weight, has long battery life, and easily moves from room to room with me.
I have wanted a system like this ever since the EEE PCs came out a couple of years ago, but I didn’t think a 7″ screen was big enough. So, this year when the larger 9″ and 10″ screens were announced I eagerly kept track of each system as it was unveiled, read the reviews, and also read the comments of folks as they bought the various netbooks.
When the Wind was announced I was pretty much hooked. I’ve used MSI’s motherboards for years and have been very happy with their products. The Wind had everything I wanted hardware-wise with an Atom processor, 10″ non-shiny screen (I tried a 9″ netbook in a store and decided I wanted the larger screen size), 1GB ram, decent-sized hard disk drive (I had decided I didn’t want SSD as I could put that in later), bluetooth, 1.3mp camera, 6 cell battery, etc.
By the end of the Summer my choices had come down to the Wind or Lenovo’s S10. What eventually made me buy the Wind were things that might seem innocuous, but are important to me as I would be using this netbook on a daily basis. The reviews said it ran really cool and it had a fairly standard keyboard layout (on other netbooks the right shift is in an odd place and this matters to me as I am a fast touch typist). In addition, there is a robust user community (msiwind.net) and someone has already written up the instructions (and problems) for installing the version of Linux I plan to ultimately use. Also, it looks to me like it is not difficult to do hardware upgrades on the Wind.
I am sure the other netbooks are fine products, but I have no regrets and am delighted with my purchase.
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