MSI slides out 14-inch Athlon Neo-equipped X410 laptop

MSI's X-Slim X400 made quite the splash alongside the X340 and X600 earlier this year, but now it's time for the slighted middle child to get an upgrade. Upstaging both of the aforementioned siblings, the refreshed X410 gets powered by AMD's Athlon Neo processor and also packs an ATI Radeon X1250 GPU, 14-inch LCD (1,366 x 768), up to 2GB of DDR2 RAM, a 1.3 megapixel camera, gigabit Ethernet, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, optional Bluetooth, an HDMI port, an SD card reader and a 320GB or 500GB hard drive. There's also a pair of USB 2.0 sockets, a VGA output, external DVD writer (or Blu-ray drive, if you'd prefer) and a 4- or 8-cell battery to boot. Per usual, MSI isn't doling out pricing or release details just yet, but we're betting a pre-holiday ship date is practically a lock.

[Via HotHardware]

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2009 10:39AM]

macbook air wanna be.
try something new MSI, this OLD.

[aznofazns Posted Sep 18th 2009 10:47AM]

Don't be ignorant. This is not an Air wannabe. It has a low-powered Athlon cpu vs Core 2 Duo, less powerful graphics, a larger screen, and more importantly, more than one USB port. Oh, and it will cost less than half as much as the Air.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2009 10:48AM]

Apple invented moronic fanboys.

[Aaronage Posted Sep 18th 2009 10:38AM]

Shame it uses the older 690 chipset (ATI X1250) instead of the newer 780 (ATI 3200) :)

Otherwise it looks pretty awesome :)

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2009 10:47AM]

I want a low powered Athlon X2 in a thin and light, enough with this single core nonsense!

[Darwin Posted Sep 18th 2009 11:26AM]

Single core = no sale.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2009 11:41AM]

So you're saying that this Neo is, indeed, not "The One"?

[Sublime865 Posted Sep 19th 2009 11:30PM]

Honestly, single or dual core has no effect on me. I run a Intel Centrino (P4M) 1.8GHz, combined with a 64MB Radeon 9600 in my business laptop (I refuse to give up my 7 hours of battery life in my Thinkpad T42 for one of those shitty new dell laptops my company is buying), and it performs flawlessly, and since I upgraded it to Windows 7, it is even moreso. The only flaw is a flickering monitor, common to T42's and it is a driver issue because it is in a *RADEON 9600*. The display glitches and tries to display at 55Hz instead of the 75Hz the 1400x1050 panel wants. But I digress, if a P4M and Radeon 9600 can display Aero *absolutely flawlessly* then I'm sure this device will bury it. Windows 7 Ultimate should run like a dream on it. My only curiosity is if the processor supports AMD-V, that's what is becoming a deal breaker for me lately, I've become partial to grabbing the latest copy of my VM on my server, taking it with me and tinkering, then getting home and putting the new copy on my server and running it there again. It truly is liberating to work on anything anywhere regardless of any kind of signal. Then again, I've only been able to do that on my 3 hour battery AMD Laptop, but that would be awesome to do on this.

Like I said, I don't need much power, the servers are Linux based so they take zero horsepower, and the actual servers are running on the server box for production use.

[android user Posted Sep 18th 2009 11:40AM]

Price is €419: http://gadgetmix.com/index/msi-x410-officially-annouced/

Still cheap for a full size notebook though

[KAL326 Posted Sep 18th 2009 11:50AM]

This teeters dangerously close to the under featured laptop/overly fat netbook line.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2009 5:06PM]

it's a hermaphrobook?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2009 12:41PM]

Hey all, Here's the MSI web link. http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=135&cat2_no=665&prod_no=1875
My question is.. Isn't this AMD a dual core processor? Is it too slow or something? What am I missing. I thought this looked pretty powerful for the price?

I'm actually thinking of buying either the MSI or the ASUS ul30A (the one with the dual CULV)

http://usa.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=8CwAK6XZ0pekc7aIhttp://usa.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=8CwAK6XZ0pekc7aI

Which one is better and why? Is the AMD faster or Slower than the intel?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 18th 2009 1:00PM]

here's the unboxing if anyone is interested

http://www.tvlesson.com/video/39059_msi-x410-unboxing.html