MSI Wind low-cost laptop: nicer experience than Asus Eee PC

If you find that the Asus Eee PC is a little on the small side, then you might want to consider the MSI Wind low-cost laptop. The thing is many people have said that the keyboard and touchpad are a bit on the small side, but that is where the MSI wind addresses those problems. There has always been one problem surrounding low-cost laptops, sometimes they have a cheap design with a low price, or they are priced so high that they are almost the same as a standard laptop.

According to PC World, Many people consider these low-cost laptops like the MSI Wind to a standard laptop, well when the price is similar what do you expect. However; in most cases these low-cost laptops are aimed at people who want a smaller, lighter laptop so that they are able to surf the Internet while on the move.

Key to MSI’s Wind is battery-life and performance, and it does look as though this model ticks both boxes. The first MSI Wind comes in a series of different colours, Windows XP comes pre-installed and things are kept running thanks to the 1.6GHz Intel Atom microprocessor. The MSI Wind also comes with 1GB of DRAM and an 80GB hard disk drive, although I would have thought that MSI would have put a SSD in the Wind. The laptop also comes with Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, for wireless internet.

The standard version comes with a 6-cell battery; this is good for at least 5 to 6 hours of use. Considering the MSI wind has a 10-inch screen, the battery life is just as good as those with a 7-inch screen, like the Asus Eee PC 700. So it does show that MSI have not cut corners, as the first thing that some companies would have done was to put a 3 cell battery in the laptop instead.

All-in-all the MSI Wind is a nicer experience that the Asus Eee PC, but most of this is down to the slightly larger keyboard.