MSI readying updated Wind U123 for April release
By Donald Melanson 
posted February 27th 2009 11:36PM
posted February 27th 2009 11:36PM
MSI's Wind U120 has only been available for a little over a month, and already received a minor update of its own, but it looks like the company is already planning on adding a few more digits to the Wind line, with its upgraded Wind U123 apparently on track for an April release. While much will apparently remain unchanged form the U120, the U123 does get a bit of a boost from Intel's new Atom N280 processor, which has already found its way into ASUS' Eee PC 1000HE, and from a maximum 2GB of RAM, as opposed to 1GB on the U120. You'll also be able to get it in your choice of four colors, and with a six or nine cell battery if you choose. What's more, MSI's director of US sales reportedly confirmed that the company has both 11.6-inch and 12-inch netbooks "in development," and that it "can bring that out of the gate," although he unfortunately didn't go any farther than that somewhat cryptic statement."
Yum.
I think Lenovo is already preparing an 11.6" netbook. This segment of notebooks is getting more crowded every day!
Wait until they announce the 13" and 14" netbooks.
A 13" netbook would certainly be interesting. I'd like to see something like the MacBook Air (light, thin), but cheaply priced. Apple would then have to do something about the MBA.
BTW where do they get the size 11.6" (29.464cm) from? Do they just decide on a random number? (or is the length/width a rounded number?)
Thanks for nothing, MSI. I finally plopped down money on your competitor because of features lacking in the U120 I wanted. The U123 should have been the U120.
i feel sorry for you, i was on the brink of finally buying - but then again i knew this 1gb thing wouldn't last... now i just gotta wait one more month - and then i'm gonna have myself a sweet little hackintosh netbook.
but shame on msi for this screwing around with customers that way.
Thrown a TV tuner and GPS options in there like the 10" Dell, and that would be worth waiting for. N280 is a win.
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If they aren't careful, people are going to start thinking that these netbooks can actually do heavy lifting instead of browsing/music playing/photo display.
^^^They're like laptops from 3-4 years ago. I think as long as you use a semi-old version of MS Office, Win XP, etc, you'd be OK using one of these as your main laptop.
My Wind U100 is running Vista, and I use the latest Visual Studio (far heavier than office) with no problems at all. I find that for doing serious work the main constraint is screen resolution rather than computing power; I wish they'd release some higher resolution screens with the same physical size.
I have an U100, and as long as you don't run Halo on it, it's the same as any other laptop out there. Ok any crap from M$ newer than XP will run slow, but cmon vista runs slow even in dual core computers! Screen real state is the main drawback, but you have to accept some trade back between screen real state and portability ;)
By 1000HA you mean 1000HE?
No, the 1000HA and 1000HE are different models.
Yes HE has N280, HA has N270
I'd make them into tablet pcs...
yeah.. i guess its both different models pat hunter
9 Cell wha wa what???
In just a few more years these little slates will add up to a great picture. In it you'll see an idyllic street in rustic China where a Chinaman try to boil these Atom motherboards down to bits in a piping hot wok, further in the background are breathtaking ziggurat-shaped mountains made of Intel netbooks.
I've been planning on buying the U100 after reading about the downgraded U120, but it seems I'll just stick it out for a bit longer and pick up a U123.
Where the u115? :'(
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