MSI retools Wind Box DE200 and DC200, puts 'em up for pre-order

Well, what do you know? Last we saw MSI's Wind Box DE200, it was sittin' pretty at a booth at CeBIT. Evidently it has seen quite the makeover since that debut, with the latest imagery showing it (alongside the DC200) with far edgier enclosures. We have to say we dig the new digs, but we're most excited about the US pricing and pre-order pages. Both units are still (under)powered by a 1.6GHz Atom CPU, and predictably, both feature 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive and Windows XP Home running the show. No firm release date has been nailed down for the US market, but Amazon has 'em both up for pre-order right now at $249.99 (DC200) / $299.99 (DE200).

[Via iTechNews]

Read - MSI press release
Read - Wind Box DC200 pre-order page
Read - Wind Box DE200 pre-order page

[cbizarre Posted Oct 17th 2009 9:37PM]

"Why I would buy from company can't afford advertising, and use English no good?"

This is the fourth forum on Engadget today that I have read with these damn spam posts. What is this - youtube?

[Dking7 Posted Oct 17th 2009 6:07PM]

uumm... eee....still won't buy one...

[Mushrooshi Posted Oct 17th 2009 6:07PM]

Awesome! The Wii HD!... Wait a second...

[Zombie Salus Posted Oct 17th 2009 6:13PM]

omg dude, the first thought I had was "that looks an awful lot like a Wii"...
Wonder how hard it would be to stick the Wii innards in that shell.
O.o

[Faceless Troll Posted Oct 17th 2009 8:25PM]

Damn, someone else already beat me to noticing that. Oh well.

[1 Posted Oct 18th 2009 4:33AM]

HD !=Ion. This has an ATI Radeon HD 4350.

[Heywatchitbuddy Posted Oct 17th 2009 6:11PM]

Maybe I'm missing something, but why would you buy an Atom machine like this when you could get something like a HP Pavilion Slimline instead?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 27th 2010 12:55PM]

This or an US import PSP-Go, tough call.

[Schmitty Posted Oct 17th 2009 6:24PM]

...or a PS3 Slim.

I think I'll take the Slim.

[xxgunnerxx Posted Oct 17th 2009 6:30PM]

This won't even be able to play my 1080p porn. Garbage.

[kris120890 Posted Oct 17th 2009 6:40PM]

A HD 4350 is designed to play 1080P content.

[hariss Posted Oct 17th 2009 6:53PM]

the shape of the computer reminds me of IBM blue gene.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 17th 2009 6:57PM]

I don't know if this is the one for me, but it's pretty awesome that media center comps are arriving at a realistic price range.

[RikF Posted Oct 17th 2009 7:01PM]

They'll have arrived once they are powerful enough (or Flash is modified enough) to play full screen content from sites like Hulu

[amddude Posted Oct 17th 2009 7:41PM]

this looks pretty bitchin. Totally would hackintosh it and use it as an apple TV for my living room. I also have a Wind u100-432us which has the ability to overclock with a bios settings change and a key combo, so I wonder if this has it too...

[cbizarre Posted Oct 17th 2009 9:36PM]

oops, that was supposed to go to the spam post!

my bad.

[Jeff Kibuule Posted Oct 17th 2009 8:12PM]

This is pretty sad considering than $30 more gets you these improvements in the Acer 330:

1) Dual core Atom 330
2) Windows 7 Home Premium
3) 2GB DDR2 RAM
4) nVidia ION chipset

http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/16/acers-atom-330-win7-packin-aspirerevo-now-shipping-to-america/

[1 Posted Oct 18th 2009 6:45AM]

The ION isn't better or worse is it?

[raaaaaa Posted Oct 17th 2009 9:43PM]

lenovo Q110

[Pies Posted Oct 18th 2009 1:09AM]

Well, they did manage to uglify it.

[Johannes NewGadgetsde Posted Oct 18th 2009 7:25AM]

This Design was already shown at the Computex: http://www.newgadgets.de/?attachment_id=5360

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 18th 2009 8:04AM]

If this machine has:
Atom 330 Dual Core 1.6 + Nvidia ION or,
Athlon Neo X 2 1.6 + ATI
and sold under $300 this will be an easy buy!!!

[benjgvps Posted Oct 18th 2009 1:27PM]

Still waiting out for the MSI Wind Bag...