MSI rolls out U135 netbook pre-loaded with SUSE Moblin

Dell may have been the first to experiment with Moblin on an Atom-based netbook for developers, but it looks like MSI is the first to actually get one intended for regular consumers out the door, with it now announcing that it's shipping a version of its U135 netbook pre-loaded with Novell's SUSE Moblin OS (version 2.1, of course). Apart from that, the netbook itself apparently remains the same as the U135 we got our hands on last month, which packed a 10-inch screen, a 1.66GHz Atom N450 CPU, 1GB of RAM, and a 250GB hard drive. No word on any difference in price just yet, but it should be available sometime next month.

[007 Posted Jan 9th 2010 3:30PM]

just what everyone wanted

[Eternity Posted Jan 9th 2010 3:37PM]

Am I the only one getting sick and tired of the underpowered Atom line and the vast netbook clones?

[suncho Posted Jan 9th 2010 4:08PM]

@Eternity Er, yes :)

[bungleofsketches Posted Jan 10th 2010 2:30PM]

@Eternity its moblin. its ten times faster than xp or 7

[enuser Posted Jan 9th 2010 4:44PM]

Unbelievable, what ever happened to product differentiation... I keep waiting for an SSD option, anyone know if one will be coming out anytime soon?