MSI Wind U210 – Pre-Order at Amazon.com
The netbook segment just got a little more interesting. It looks like the Intel Atom CPU is not the only one on the block. Sure VIA came out with the Nano, but it suffered low adoption from manufacturers.
MSI Wind U210
The MSI Wind U210 will be powered by the AMD NEO MV-40, operating at 1.6 GHz. This is a 12 inch model with a screen resolution of 1366 x 768. An AMD Radeon X1250 will be handling graphic duties. The higher end model will, unfortunately, come loaded with Vista. It’s still too early to know if this will qualify for the free Windows 7 upgrade. This might be a good competitor to all the Intel Atom powered netbooks out there.
In my opinion, it’s good to have come competition to the Atom because consumers will benefit. AMD is not so restrictive as Intel when it comes to netbooks. Most netbooks running the Atom N-series processor cannot exceed certain screen resolutions. That is why you see many of the bigger netbooks running the Atom Z processor to get around this rule.
The MSI Wind U210 is available at Amazon.com for $430. Click here to check it out.
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