MSI Mega Book MS-1057 lightweight Core Duo laptop

MSI has rolled out one of the most compact Core Duo laptops yet, the 4.1-pound MS-1057. The box comes with a 12.1-inch WXGA display, 100GB hard drive, 2GB maximum RAM, dual-layer burner, and a T2000 Core Duo or T1000 Core Solo. Unfortunately, it looks like MSI decided that one way to keep this one light and small was to shrink the battery; the computer has a mere 1.5-hour battery life, which means you're not going to be using this one to watch movies on a plane -- though if you turn the backlight down and energy-saving features up, you can probably get away with playing Solitaire for a couple of hours.

[Via Akihabara News]

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 28th 2006 10:59AM]

Blech! I'll stick with the Fujitsu P7120 - 10" (or so, may be 11") plus two batteries (without increasing its size) nets me a solid 10 hours of battery life. The Core Duo would be nice, but not with halving or quartering the battery life.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 28th 2006 11:03AM]

Meh... Look for the Sony SZ series -- Core Duo up to T2500, 4 lbs, 13.3" WXGA screen, 3 hours battery life watching DVDs (my test).

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 28th 2006 11:37AM]

Come on, why not just skip the cd drive and hit it with like.. 6-8 hours battery instead??

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 28th 2006 1:01PM]

that is the dumbest thing I ever heard... making a battery last 1.5 hours is a clear way to having a lot of annoyed customers and no one ever buying another of your producs.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 1st 2006 6:01AM]

you'll be able to get longer life batts for like �60, its the exact same design as all the previous msi/medion notebooks, so the batt will be the same

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2006 12:08AM]

These will likely be very cheap - after they become rebadged as Averatecs ;-)

(The current version offered by Avertec goes for about a grand - http://www.averatec.com/notebooks/2100series.htm)