MSI Starts Shipping 12-Inch Wind U210 in the U.S. Is it Still a Netbook?
MSI Starts Shipping 12-Inch Wind U210 in the U.S. Is it Still a Netbook?
Posted 09/16/2009 at 10:33am
| by Paul Lilly
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We're not sure whether to call it a netbook, ultra-portable, or just a notebook, but whatever it is, MSI's 12-inch Wind U210 mobile PC has blown into the U.S.
You won't find an Intel Atom processor inside, and instead the U210 comes equipped with AMD's Athlon NEO MV-40 chip. Driving the 12.1-inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display is AMD's ATI Radeon X1250 integrated graphics.
Other specs include 2GB of RAM, a comparatively spacious 250GB had drive, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, HDMI output, and Windows Vista Home Premium.
Probably the cheapest you'll find it online is at Amazon, who's calling it a netbook and selling the black version for $430 shipped ($474 for the white chassis). That's about in line with a higher end netbook, and combined with the advertised 5-hour battery life, MSI may have a winner on its hands.
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JDK
September 16, 2009 at 1:47pm
I was going to say the same exact thing. But then I thought....theres no way the author doesn't actually know this.
Right?
Because if you just now learned the difference between a netbook and an ultra portable.......
...then stop writing about them.
TechJunkie
September 16, 2009 at 1:11pm
NO. This is considered an Ultra portable. Netbook specs should only be equipped with a 10.1 inch or less LCD, and be in the sub $300 moniker, Regardless of proc speed and amount of ram.
Sidecutter
February 14, 2010 at 8:40am
The specs you're quoting to decide a netbook at the exact specs Intel wants. Intel won't let anyone have their processors for anything marketed as a netbook unless it is at or below those specs. That's ridiculous. Are you going to let Intel tell you what is an is not part of a computing category?
Instead, I'd suggest that anything bearing a specialty processor made for long life and good basic performance (AMD Neo, NVidia Ion, Intel atom) and in a miniature notebook formfactor, should be a netbook. Yes, there are 12" screen ultraportables, but those have full-on Athlon Pentium, or Core processors inside them.
BobbyPhoenix
September 16, 2009 at 1:44pm
Agreed. Netbooks are 10" screen, or under. Anything over can't be called a netbook, and that's the bottom line.
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