Video: MSI Wind U115 for sale in Japan, UK
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted May 22nd 2009 1:31PM
posted May 22nd 2009 1:31PM
MSI's Wind U115, the huggable, lovable, notable, and ultraportable hybrid SSD/HDD is now available to faithful readers in the UK and Japan. It's been spotted making the rounds on the Interwebz in the £450 - £500 (approx. $675-$750) range. A bit pricey for a 10-inch netbook, sure, but perhaps the Atom Z530 processor, 6-cell battery, and 720p video playback will make it worth your while. You have been making some irrational decisions lately -- but we'll talk about that later. Hands on video after the break.
Read - MSI Wind U115 Hybrid Unboxed
Read - MSI Wind U115 Hybrid now shipping in UK
Read - MSI Wind U115 Hybrid Unboxed
Read - MSI Wind U115 Hybrid now shipping in UK
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Congralations, you're an idiot.
yea...I'm going to have to concur
Weren't these supposed to be cheap? This is almost becoming as bad as Apple.
heh my 14" C2D Vostro was less than $500 almost 2 years ago. These netbook prices are getting kinda strange.
gotdamn sticker ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
lol
i loved my msi wind u100 till i found out there was a flaw with the battery, exchanged it for the hp mini 1000.
The wind preformed much better than the mini IMO, yet i feel the hp was a "higher quality" build.
In the end ill be buying msi products cant seem to get enough of it :D
Yep, it's a netbook.
Better Battery you say?
Now i can do nothing for twice as long!
720p you say?
Too bad the screen is far too small for it to really matter... a portable DVD player would be an upgrade from this due to the inclusion of DVD playback capabilities.
Hyperthreading you say?
Is there anything that can run on this that can even take advantage of it? Office?
Sarcasm aside it's still too much money for a toy.
I can only agree in one thing: for the same price you can get a "normal" laptop.
Are you saying this thing can't run VLC? Or what is that DVD player remark about?
@Wwhat: I think what he means is that it doesn't have a disc-drive. Which is kind of a wasted argument, since most people download their favorite shows these days... And it does have an LAN-plug, so....
I still think the MSI Wind U123 works just fine and it's half the price
http://www.netbookreviews.com/msi-wind-u123-now-shipping/
Finally shipping out after that long 2 week pre-order wait though.
Why does this appeal so much to us? Physically writing on the computer amazes us! I think teachers are some of the only people that have a legitimate reason to use one for drawing graphs or quickly showing examples that they would have previously done by messing with the overhead projector.
Are 11 stickers really needed?
Executive Pro model comes with 12.
11 stickers?
....yea, that's a deal breaker.
You'd think they'd take the hint when Dell took months and designed a "premium" notebook... and hid the stupid stickers in a little sticker compartment. Ha.
Wow, $750. Really? I guess Sony wasn't too far off pricing their Vaio P as the rest of the manufactures keep riding the price up, ignoring the point of a netbook in the first place. I guess the next step is somebody introducing an "affordable $200-$300 9" laptop," and call it a sub-netbook.
The P is at least one skinny fucking netbook. This is expensive, and that same over-done wedge shape.
On a notebook you're going to work on this format works. And on a machine you're going to do work on, a dual code cpu is good.
This is not a machine I want to do work on though.
Everyone knows chicks rate guys by the amount of stickers on their notebook
If we learned any thing from illegal street racing it's that stickers = speed.
I finally have to ask, is "Wind" pronounced as in wind on a windy day, or "Wind" like you wind a clock?
I agree with the poster above MSI quality is not great at all , all they care about is the specs. If the laptop falls apart thats ok it still can watch 720p.
Oh and FYI the Acer Aspire one can easily watch 720p rips no problem.
What MSI doesn't care for is called XP64.