MSI unveils ultra-thin X-Slim 320, fits snugly into manila envelope
By Ross Miller 
posted January 5th 2009 1:43PM
posted January 5th 2009 1:43PM
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In a way, aren't all netbooks laptop competitors by definition? Before, if you wanted a low-powered laptop just for surfing the web and word processing, you had to try to find an old/used laptop and a wifi add-on card. It could be said that the more powerful a netbook is, the more it draws from the laptop market (and, naturally, the netbook market as well).
This is only a competitor for the Air in form factor, as already stated. But what's starting to bother me is that they make a big deal about how these three pound beasts fit in manila envelopes. Those of us who have actual ultraportables know there's a 50% weight difference between those and the Air; I'd love a 13 inch screen, but my 12.1 inch will have to do if I have to sacrifice 1.48 more pounds to get the bigger screen. Plenty of good, high quality ultraportables are available which weigh less than two pounds and have more performance-oriented mobile chipsets than Atom.
This is an interesting entry because it has a larger screen size than its true competitors and is built in a frame that has the ports and affixes of a real ultraportable.
Why are "r" and "ead" two separate links for the Crave report?
This looks pretty sweet though, I'm certainly liking the battery life.
$800 for an atom equipped netbook? That's a sick joke.
$600 tops.
$550 would make this a best seller.
Yeah, we know the innards is cheap. Let's face it though, cheap netbooks are low margins, so companies will try to spin and upsell them to get higher margins. This is one of them.
this is exactly what i'm looking for - bigger display they today's atoms, light as apple air, with atom's low performance, but also with near atom's low price.
I got only 2 problems:
a) not yet on the market
b) if it will come to the europe in the second half of the year, so at the time of windows 7, i except and want touching display
msi X-Slim 320 + iatkos =cheep mackbook air
If it uses the Nvidia chipset would make a much better air than the air itself does.
Nothing about the HDD in any of the releases that I could see. Could be a craptastic PATA ZIF 5400 rpm or slower 1.8" drive (better would be a 1.8" SATA like the new Toshiba's), or could be an SSD of some kind, or could support both. Anybody have any idea?
According to Engadget Chinese:
"Hard Disk: 2.5-inch, there is no plan SSD "
I assume this to mean a regular 2.5" HDD. Would be even lighter (but more expensive) if you threw in the 2.5" SSD. Nice if it was an option when it gets to the States.
Uh oh.. I smell a new Serato notebook for myself!
I just don't think using laptops with those sharp edges is very fun at all. Really starts to cut into your wrists. Can't we just round that mess off a bit?
What, no DVI? Not even a DVI breakout box?
Wonderful! i said i would buy the first netbook with a higher res than 1024 x 600, and i own a msi wind and love it. Perfect osx86 machine.
The price is a bit high, and i wish they would include something higher than a 1.6atom , how about a 2.2 atom? or something like that would be nice
The slides shown on the engadget chinese site seem to make it clear that this is menlow so I would think Nvidia Ion would be out. Though it would certainly be nice if it was Ion. I'd consider picking it up.
OH my gos me want me want!
well thats an original design i have never seen before.
Oh and my DSLite fits in a standard envelope
Every one wants to be like apple
Notice after the iPhone came out touch screen phones got popular
Touch screen phones existed before iPhone came out. Hmmm... Apple is very Japanese, they copy and improve and excel on products that are already out in the market. The Xerox interface, the Creative dap interface, and switch from resistive to capacitive touchscreen. When Apple comes out with something apple fans call it original without studying where Apple copied the design from. However Apple does have a knack for reorganizing and simplifying interfaces that other companies fail to do in the name of ergonomics.
This sounds like a well thought out machine. MS seems to be on the right track as of late.
no display port/hdmi out - no thanks
wow looks nice
Intel Atom doesn't sound fun though...
Sony still king I guess
Loved reading the Chinese engadget
Hehe
I know you guys american are among the wealthiest people on earth, and given your currency's value changes everyday I assume even YOU don't know how much a dollar really is worth..
But hey Can't you make a difference between $800 and $1800 ?
I 'll convert it in euros for you (maybe this will do the trick and turn your brain on) : 593 euros and 1332 euros.
Now let me tell you a little story, a metaphor : I once wanted to buy a new car, and was quite seduced by a mercedes berline I had seen in the streets, but then I realized it was twice cheaper to buy the high end Citroën C5.
I compared the specs and all : both car had everything I need from security (8 airbags,ABS, ESP blabla ) to confort and performance (I drive 900 km out of 55 l of gasoil and top speed 220km/h)
Later on I went to visit a friend at his job (a engine factory) and realised Montupet SA was actually manufacturing both Mercedes and Citroën engines, in the exact same factory !
I then understood the only difference between my car and the Mercedes I wanted at the beginning was the fucking 3-branch-star at the rear and on the front.
But the most amazing thing is : I would have done EXACTLY the same thing with this car that I do today (driving my ass from A to B) had I decided that two 3-branch-stars are worth 25000 euros.
I hope this helps underlining the absolute stupidity of the comparison between the MBA and this new MSI (that I find highly promising)
Either you're ok paying twice as much to do the exact same thing or not, it's not logic nor arguments that will convince you not to do so.
(ty for reading and sorry for the long comment)
Sorry, you are totally wrong. Get a Mercedes at some point to see for yourself ;) Not to say that the Citroen is a fine car, I actually like their styling a lot. It'll get you from A to B like most cars these days. But it's no Mercedes.
With these machines its even more obvious. The Air is twice as expensive and twice as fast. For people like myself who are not poor students anymore and who actually need some serious horsepower in their machines, the Air would be the only choice.
seriously just get and air, i mean rlly, all of these netbooks and eee Pc's its stupid, they all fail in some area...even the macbook air however its from apple, and if you really want to you can still run XP or Vista on it
Skip the Air and buy this. They're both going to get used for going online, watching downloaded movies, watching pornography, etc. Both are perfectly capable of all these tasks, but Apple is going to charge you an extra grand to do it.
If you're worried about not owning the world's thinnest laptop, don't. Though you don't own it, neither do Macbook Air owners, unless they happen to own a Sharp Actius MM10, the actual world's thinnest laptop. The ill-fated Pedion, released in 1998, was also thinner than the Air. I guess "World's Thinnest Laptop, If You Ignore These Other, Thinner Laptops" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.
If I were going to make bold lies about my product, though, I would have gone for gold. "World's most powerful computer of any sort, ever," perhaps. Maybe "cures cancer while enlarging your penis". Or "renders user immortal". These are slightly more outlandish, but exactly as truthful.
In the end, yeah, it's a knockoff, but it has the same functionality as the original, with a thousand dollars knocked off the price. Only buy the Air if you're a yuppie living off a trust fund, and you need something flashy to pretend to write a screenplay with at Starbucks in a desperate, pathetic bid for attention, because you couldn't fill the void in your soul with cocaine, expensive cars, and thousand dollar prostitutes.