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MSI, ASUS, Acer and Lenovo prepping Atom N450 netbooks for January 11th

By Chris Davies on Friday, Dec 4th 2009 No Comments

MSI's rumored plans to corner the Pine Trail netbook market this month look to have been put on hold, with the company named as one of four firms - the others being ASUS, Acer and Lenovo - set to launch Atom N450 based models on January 11th. The new timescale apparently complies with Intel's launch schedule, with the N450 set to officially debut on January 10th, ahead of the Atom N470 processor's arrival in March 2010.

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MSI Wind12 U230 gets video hands-on: SIM slot discovered

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 30th 2009 No Comments

From one Congo ultraportable to another; MSI’s Wind12 U230 notebook only got official on Friday last week, but already the 12.1-incher has been spotted up for sale in a Taipei computer show. NetbookNews grabbed some hands-on time with a 1.6GHz Congo MV40 ultrathin, in this particular case the 500GB model.

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Video demo after the cut

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SlashGear Week in Review – Week 48 2009

By Shane McGlaun on Sunday, Nov 29th 2009 2 Comments

I hope you had a great Thanksgiving and weren’t too shopped out yesterday! If you still have shopping to do for Christmas, we have some seen some cool gear over the last week that might be worth a look. The Sony Ericsson Kurara has been reviewed and the verdict is that the device needs to be cheap to succeed. We reviewed the Nokia Booklet 3G this week. The final verdict was that the machine is underpowered and outperformed by first generation netbooks.

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MSI Wind12 U230 packs AMD Congo CPU for lengthy runtimes

By Chris Davies on Friday, Nov 27th 2009 No Comments

MSI’s latest ultraportable has made its debut, based on AMD’s second-gen ultrathin platform. The MSI Wind12 U230 has a 12.1-inch 1,366 x 768 HD-ready display (as well as an HDMI port), dual-core AMD Congo MV40 processor and up to 4GB of DDR2 memory; it measures a slimline 297 x 190 x 24-31 mm and tips the scales at 1.3kg.

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MSI X-Slim X430 packs Athlon Neo X2 CPU, skinny frame

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Nov 25th 2009 1 Comment

msi x slim x430 MSI have outed their latest X-Slim ultraportable, and they’ve slipped in an AMD processor rather than the usual Intel fare. The MSI X-Slim X430 gets AMD’s Athlon Neo X2 CPU and an ATI Mobility Radeon HD3200 GPU, together with 2GB of memory, a 14-inch 1366 x 768 16:9 display and choice of 320GB or 500GB hard-drives. In keeping with the X-Slim range’s skinny ethos, it measures 24.5mm thick.

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Nokia Booklet 3G review

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 23rd 2009 No Comments

While many scoffed at the idea of Nokia building a netbook, the idea does have its share of merits. After all, the Finnish company knows a few things about eking out runtimes from compact batteries, and with netbooks being perhaps the most likely of computing devices to be in search of mobile connectivity, stuffing them with the sort of wireless access your high-end Nokia boasts certainly makes sense. Throw in eye-catching design and you’re onto a winner, right? Unfortunately, we’ve found the Nokia Booklet 3G falls short in other areas; check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.

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SlashGear Week in Review – Week 47 2009

By Shane McGlaun on Saturday, Nov 21st 2009 No Comments

Week in review time again, here we go! The Lenovo IdeaPad Pineview netbook hit the FCC Monday. The FCC is one of the most prolific leaker of gadgets and gear around and we love them for it. The CrunchPad is now said to be steamrolling toward a launch and may have a sponsorship deal in place. Word was a few weeks back that the tablet was dead.

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MSI Wind Top AE2220 all-in-one packs 1080p and multitouch

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Nov 18th 2009 1 Comment

MSI have pushed out another all-in-one in its Wind Top line, and this one offers both Full HD 1080p support and a touchscreen. The MSI Wind Top AE2220 has a 21.5-inch 16:9 display running at 1,920 x 1,080, multitouch support, a choice of Intel’s 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo T6600 or 2.1GHz Pentium dual-core T4300 processors, and NVIDIA Ion graphics.

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OS X 10.6.2 reacquires Atom support in latest dev build

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Nov 5th 2009 No Comments

Having heard earlier this week that Apple had blocked Atom processor support in their latest build of OS X 10.6.2, we're now being told that the low-power Intel CPU has once again been welcomed back into the Mac fold. A newer 10.6.2 build, 10C535, has restored Atom support, meaning owners of netbook-turned-Hackint0sh machines may not be left without the latest software in their DIY Apple ultraportables.

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Apple blocking Atom support in OS X 10.6.2

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 2nd 2009 No Comments

Apple may be reluctant to launch a netbook – and given their financial success selling mid- to high-end notebooks we can’t really blame them – has spawned a busy community of Hackint0sh creators, many of whom turn to humble Atom-based netbooks such as the MSI Wind for use as donor machines for OS X. All that might change, however, with the news that Apple have tweaked Mac OS X 10.6.2, their upcoming operating-system update, to prevent installation on Atom-based computers.

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