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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 announces special Big Bang-Trinergy mainboard with SteelSeries

By Shane McGlaun on Thursday, Dec 3rd 2009 No Comments

Back in October, we first heard of the MSI Big Bang mainboard. This enthusiast board will be among the most popular motherboards for gamers and performance computing enthusiasts ever. MSI announced a new special edition of the Big Bang today in conjunction with SteelSeries.

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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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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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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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MSI Wind U230 ultraportable uses AMD Neo X2 MV40

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

MSI have outed their latest ultraportable, and it comes as a pleasant surprise to find a chip other than Intel’s Atom under the hood. The MSI Wind U230 squeezes AMD’s 1.6GHz Neo X2 MV40 processor into a 12.1-inch 1366 x 768 chassis with AMD Radeon HD3200 graphics, up to 4GB of RAM and a choice of 160GB, 250GB or 320GB hard-drives.

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MSI set to release Big Bang gaming series motherboard soon

By Shane McGlaun on Friday, Oct 30th 2009 No Comments

MSI teased us with a few tidbits on that awesome Big Bang mainboard at the end of September, and I really want one. MSI has issued a new press release that gives more details on the mainboard and promises that it will launch soon, but MSI gives no specific date for the board to hit market.

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MSI Tegra-based ebook reader planned for 2010

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Oct 27th 2009 No Comments

MSI are threatening to join the ebook reader market themselves, with company chairman Joseph Hsu revealing that they’re currently working on an NVIDIA Tegra based device. The news comes after ASUS reiterated their ongoing ebook reader development, with the most recent news suggesting that the company has not one but two such devices in the works, offering two different screen sizes.