The MSI Wind is one of the best netbooks I have seen come out of the flurry of netbooks that has hit the market in the past few months. It offers a 10″ widescreen, Intel Atom processor, and WIFI with Bluetooth priced well under what some of the other mainstream competition charge. All of this seems to come with a small problem: Battery life. MSI is only selling the 3-cell batteries, which averages just over 2 hours of continuous use. This is not good. Well, now it is available with a 6-cell accessory battery.
For the $500 price you really couldn’t ask for much more beyond the longer-lived battery. The screen is really not bad, the keyboard is great, build quality is top notch. Find on sale with free shipping.
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The MSI Wind is one of the best netbooks I have seen come out of the flurry of netbooks that has hit the market in the past few months. It offers a 10″ widescreen, Intel Atom processor, and WIFI with Bluetooth priced well under what some of the other mainstream competition charge. All of this seems to come with a small problem: Battery life. MSI is only selling the 3-cell batteries, which averages just over 2 hours of continuous use. This is not good. Well, now it is available with a 6-cell accessory battery.
For the $500 price you really couldn’t ask for much more beyond the longer-lived battery. The screen is really not bad, the keyboard is great, build quality is top notch.
Find on sale with free shipping.