Teardown party: the MSI Wind and Acer Aspire One get ripped open
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted Jul 5th 2008 6:07PM
posted Jul 5th 2008 6:07PM
Read - Breaking Wind
Read - Acer Aspire One Unboxed and Disassembled
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First mammaries and now naked PCB boards ..... Shame on you engadget Naughty writers
Combine those two, Steve Jobs, and... OH LAWDY... You've got a full on Engadget orgy...
Combine those two, throw in Steve Jobs, and... OH LAWDY LAWDY... You've got a full-on iminent Engadget orgy! O_o!?
Crap. Another annoying double-post courtesty of this 1999-esque comment system on the leading gadget blog.
My apologies.
How is that a double post a fault of Engadget's admittedly crappy comment system? The comments are a minute apart with different content. Dude, you posted it twice...unless Engadget's comment system now has self-editing.
Regardless, the comment system does suck and it *is* 1999-esque. If I had to choose a year, I'm fairly certain 1999 would be the year.
It's a double post because it initially didn't appear in the comment list like a successful post does.
Instead of using the wrong password resulting in some sort of popup or notification page, it simply refuses to post. Seeing that behavior, I decided to post again, and, since the content wasn't stored somewhere in my clipboard (like I usually do to avoid this problem), I wrote new content.
But, yes, 1999 is the year ;)
Your hard drive is showing.
Let me get this straight... They BROKE the WIND and RIPPED ONE open?
Is this a serious comment?
Of Course It Is. Don't You See How The Comment Has Capitalized Letters For Every Word? That's As Serious As You Can Get.
you just upset because clak gets to wait outside the applestore in nyc and be the bigger fanboy
You're obviously Clack posting under a different alias, that's why. That, and we're all endgdget readers, and Clak is the most infamously infantile poster ever.
In fact, this will probably draw him out from the dark recesses of the internet to troll again! He will rise from the ashes of the flamewar victorious or your money back. Honestly.
Acer read link = Lousy pix and no text.
Sounds like my type of article, all pictures no text!
Acer reak link = Lousy pix and no text.
You have to completely open the case and break a warranty sticker to upgrade the memory?! Why is there even a warranty sticker? The last laptop I bought never had one. It also didn't require opening the entire case to get at memory.
One word explanation: Micro$oft. They (MSI) have to give some assurance that they or you won't be naughty in terms of the XP Home license:
The OEM licensing agreement for XP Home on these UMPCs is that there be no more than 1 GB of memory, an 80GB HD and 10" or less display.
I don't know how Dell will have the E-Slim with a 12" display though.
If you read the article, all you have to do is register with MSI that you're doing a memory upgrade and they send you a new warranty sticker. Not sure what the point is, but at least they don't live you SOL.
Wow, you mean there's still people that spell Microsoft with a trendy $ for the "S"? Who knew?! That's so cool and so 1997!
heh heh
...breaking wind
Very poorly designed... No wonder this is made in China (or Taiwan?)...
Taiwan- and most of your computer products are designed and made in Taiwan. Better throw them all out now :(
uh.. ok...
Yes, that is bassically Asus, Gigabyte, and umm..... everything else not directly PC related. Electronics in general yes, but most directly computer related parts are elsewhere.
D-link, benq, asus, aopen, gigabyte, transcend, ECS, asrock, msi, AU optronics, chaintech, realtek, acer, Liteon, Shuttle, thermaltake, VIA, etc etc.Yeah I think they're VERY involved in many, many computer-related components.
Can we 'unbox' you first?
good, looks like it will be easy to change the wireless card to get osx on it. unless they get that working by the time it comes out.
I wonder how easy to hack/add hardware like the eeepc are these two computers.
"One thing we found interesting is that there is a DDR2 SO-DIMM slot to upgrade the memory, unlike the Eee, which means the Wind has a much more simplified future expansion compared to your average cheap sub-notebook."
I thought the Eee had a slot to upgrade memory as well, except for the old 2G Surf?
Whats the big deal with pulling these things apart? They arent particularly special in terms of internals. Laptops generally arent and typical desktop PC's just get cooler looking heatsinks and more fans as the price goes up.
Laptops and PC's are so standardised in design that its just not interesting to see their internals.
Shouldn't the Apple Fanboy gods set a curse to rain down upon your head for suggesting such HERESY!?
How could you, of all fanboys, suggest a Macbook Air be brutally dismantled!?
Well, it's either "Clak" or "Jack Ass"...
Due to their lower prices netbooks are popular amongst tinkerers and modders. Look at the touchscreen moded eees, for example.
Its nice to see a few netbooks have emerged that arn't as wimpy as the first Eee PC, If I want a small netbook, sure thats fine, but It should have a little umph as well.