MSI Wind Ultra-portable

Is talk about new launched product of MSI, wich dropped with this morning the £329 Wind ultraportable to direct competition with Eee PC 900.

This product will goes on sale the second week of June in the UK, and will be formally launched at Computex on 3rd June. The full specification is already widely known, but we promised to play coy and not reveal what processor can be found in this particular model until the formal annnouncement. So, bear that in mind as you take a gander at the photos after the cut.

First impressions are very, very good – the MSI Wind feels very solid and despite the case being made all plastic, it feels far from cheap. The white case has a similar pearlescent finish as the Eee PC 900 and 701 4G, but it isn’t quite so glossy as we liked it, but we think it’ll look better in black. The first batch of MSI Winds to go on sale will be white  and MSI doubts the pink model will make it to the UK.

At the diameter of 260 x 180 x 31mm and 1.26kg, it’s closer in size and weight to the HP 2133 Mini-Note, but this is a model with an optional six-cell battery (more on this later). The three cell model that will actually be on sale will weight closer to 1kg.

The two most striking things about the MSI Wind are the screen and keyboard – both are bigger than the Asus Eee PC 900’s. The screen has a 10 in diagonal and a 1024 x 600 resolution, and is very crisp – it’s easily as good as the Eee PC’s. The keyboard is bigger than the Eee PC’s and a little smaller than the HP 2133 Mini-Note’s, but it extends right to the edges of the case. The key tops are large and comfortable to type on.

The MSI Wind we saw was the highest specification model with, ahem, that processor, 1Gb of DDR2 RAM, 80Gb 5400rpm hard disk and Windows XP SP2. This will be the model on sale initially for £329 inc VAT, but less well-equipped models, some with SUSE Linux and an 8.9in screen, will follow later in the year. The 80Gb hard disk is standard across all models, though.

That’s a nice product that will be popular in the last of 2008. when it goes to Indonesia? lets we see together. would you like to be the first who have the MSI Wind ultraportable?

VIA OpenBook mini-note

Today, VIA has launched a low-cost notebook. its called VIA Openbook mini-note. The OpenBook is based around VIA’s venerable C7-M processor (1.0GHz to 1.6GHz) and features the new VX800 integrated chipset (VIA Chrome9, DirectX 9.0) to handle graphics duties. its will be nice for graphic or video playing.

The OpenBook comes equipped with an 8.9″ display — like many of its competitors — and features a resolution of 1024×600. Other features include three USB 2.0 ports, 4-in-1 media reader, 2MP digital camera, VGA connector, WiFi, and Bluetooth. The OpenBook can also be optioned with WiMAX, HSDPA, or EV-DO depending on your usage needs. Users can also choose from a variety of HDD or solid state disk (SSD) storage options.

If all of this sounds familiar, it should come as no surprise that an eerily similar product was announced by Everex in early April. Although VIA informed us that the “[Everex] CloudBook Max was designed by a different company,” one only needs to look at the pictures and the specifications to see that the two notebooks are virtual twins.

The VIA OpenBook will be compatible with Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows XP, and Linux when it ships later this year. Pricing has not yet been announced for notebooks using this reference design, but expect them to occupy the $400 to $600 price range depending on communications and storage options.

Will be a nice day while i can buy it. Thats very2 a simple things wich have a great function for mobile note. Are you interest with that review? please leave comment…

Samsung 256GB Solid State Disc (SSD)

This is samsung’s new product wich will introduce for this last year. a new variant of SATA II SSD should obliterate the competition with read speeds of 200MB/sec and write speeds of an amazing 160MB/sec. This compares to 120MB/sec and 40MB/sec respectively for Super Talents latest SSDs. Even Mtron falls far behind Samsung’s new 256GB SSD with read speeds of 120MB/sec and write speeds of 100MB/sec.

Samsung is using single-level cell (SLC) NAND chips to achieve these unheard of performance figures, however, the company instead settled on cheaper multi-level cell (MLC) NAND chips on this product. With development of the 256GB SSD, the notebook PC is on the brink of a second stage of evolution.

However, as the technology matures, we can expect to see prices drop as we have seen with the offerings from Super Talent. And if Intel has anything to say about it, it will offer SSD performance that will rival all contenders and likely will use its girth to push pricing further down to “mere mortal” levels. its will bea nice product that have any special features wich help you to save data in a simple package. If you’re a mobile pc user, dont miss to get it.