MSI confirms Pinetrail-having, touchscreen Windows 7 Wind U150 for 2010
By Laura June 
posted Aug 26th 2009 12:25PM
posted Aug 26th 2009 12:25PM
MSI has confirmed some previous whisperings of a Windows 7-running, resistive touchscreen netbook which will boast Intel's much anticipated Pine Trail chipset -- the Wind U150, which should present some competition for the ASUS T91. The real question is timing for this one: MSI has also said that Intel's chipset will arrive at CES 2010, which makes sense in the context of previous rumors we've heard that Acer and ASUS are freezing new netbook production until 2010, pending Pine Trail's debut. Intel, however, has remained steadfast in its avowal that the chipset is still on track for release this year... so what does it all mean? Your guess is as good as ours. MSI also simultaneously confirms the Wind U210 for the beginning of September, on AMD's Yukon platform. The U210 will run Windows XP and start at $379, with 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive.
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Took me like three times to understand that headline... :)
0th
I'm going to award you the Medal of ith.
Why? Because all your friends are imaginary.
there have been ALOT of MSI laptops on engadget and was wondering how MSI compares to all other brands of laptops.
I prefer Sony and Apple computers, but I'm willing to try something new. Right now I really want to compare my HP mini 1000 to the Sony Vaio W.
Pardon my french.
WHERE THE FUCK IS ION?!
We don't care about GMA945, GMA500 nor Pinetrail. These are GARBAGE integrated solutions that cannot even run Aero. What good is Windows 7 with a graphics chipset that can't even accelerate the desktop?
ION cant come to the phone right now. Beep!
I agree... just give us GeForce 9400M LE already, couldn't care less about touchscreen or Windows 7.
Not gonna use neither, its confirmed that W7 decreases the battery life compared to XP and that's all i need to know to avoid it completely, plus the shinny parts on laptops these days are enough to bug me with fingerprints, don't wanna have to worry about that and scratches on the screen too.
@ Inu: Your rant about Windows 7 killing batteries is more than a little premature, and certainly NOT "proven" on all machines. Decreased battery life is not uniform across all netbooks, as it partially has to do with drivers. I see less than a 10% difference (around 2hr 50min on XP vs about 2hr 30 min on Win 7) when using my Acer Aspire One.
BTW, I decided to do a quick search for some numbers, and came across this laptopmag post from just yesterday where they saw the problem in a Toshiba netbook, but not in two other regular laptops.
http://blog.laptopmag.com/windows-7-bad-for-netbook-battery-life
@inu
You either don't do good enough research or you just don't like windows 7. Pick one...
When did "we" discover how bad Pinetrail is, especially considering that it doesn't exist yet?
GeForce 9400M LE can't make use of Windows 7's graphic features. at least a dx 10 gpu is required.
So forget about the GeForce 9400M LE already.
@hari
DirectX 10 is only needed to fully support AERO in Windows 7. And Windows 7 Starter Edition, the version Microsoft will offer as a low cost alternative for netbook manufacturers, doesn't include Aero anyways.
Graphics Move Into Processor!
ION dies!
Is the touchscreen going to have a Tablet option?
god I would hope so.
with a resisitive touchscreen, not having tablet functionality would be the blunder of all blunders.
I suspect that picture is of "generic MSI netbook No. 327", and the touch screen one will have a swivel screen.
is that a xp-touchscreen?
if so, is it a single or multi-touch... since they don't specify then assume the worst;
and
if not a tablet why bother to do touch? because you love fingerprints on your screen?
more important: am I hearing the early gripes against w7?
If it is not single touch resistive I will eat my extensive hat collection.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVIDIA_ION#Existing_Desktop_Systems
We can be sure that they will all be toying with the idea of touchscreen devices.
Word must be spreading that someone is going to make touchscreen then next best thing.