MSI Wind review

July 2, 2008 on 5:51 am | In Blackhat SEO |

Well I finally got my hands on the MSI Wind which in my opinion is better than the eeePC. It compares closely to the eeePC 901 which hasn’t been released yet.

It uses the new intel atom processor and has an 80gb standard HD rather than a smaller solid state like the eeePC 901 uses. It’s slightly larger than the 901, but only just! They have made good use of the space to fit in a 10″ screen and a larger (more usuable) keyboard than the 901 by stretching it right to the sides of the chasis.

I haven’t done much testing yet but I can confirm it came with windows XP service pack 3 and it comfortably plays age of empires 2 and 3 :D To save battery I hit FN+F10 and it turns down the screen brightness and underclocks the CPU to 800mhz.

I took some pics comparing the MSI Wind to my macbook Pro and a 2g eeePC…

MSI wind VS Macbook Pro

MSI wind VS 2g eeePC

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Oh and I also got it to run Backtrack3 from an SD card… Image 4
. How?

  1. Boot the MSI wind into windows XP as normal and download the backtrack 3 usb ISO file.
  2. Mount the ISO using free tools or use winrar to extract the contents.
  3. Copy both folders (boot and bt3) onto the SD card.
  4. Load a command prompt, change drive to the SD card.. in my case E:
  5. CD to the BOOT folder and run the bootinst.bat
  6. When the MSI wind is booting, press f11 and select the card-reader boot option :)
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  1. […] report HERE and UK retailer Scan is stating the device is In […]

    Pingback by MSI Wind Released in UK | Mobility Site — 2nd July, 2008 #

  2. Please do tell how long the batteries last! Along with the hype computer-magazines (at least here in germany) tend to be very soft on manufacturers using cheap batteries.

    Comment by Berzio — 2nd July, 2008 #

  3. […] like some people were lucky enough to grab one before they were all whisked away. Here’s hoping more stock […]

    Pingback by MSI Wind released, out of stock already | Electricpig — 2nd July, 2008 #

  4. That was one huge pic. I could not even download it from my job hehe

    Comment by Tito — 2nd July, 2008 #

  5. i too grabbed a wind and i must say it is a superb machine much better than eee pc 900 anf 701 versions and i know cos i own them as well. Battery llife is around 2-2.5 hours with everything on with the shipped 3 cell battery. Of course most reviews had the 6 cell which is currently in short supply internationally

    Superb machine and thoruoghly recommended

    Comment by joe catania — 3rd July, 2008 #

  6. Hey, since you have a MacBook Pro, did you know that it’s fairly easy to install Leopard on the MSi? It runs great and is very stable - some say more than on XP, well it’s a tiny Mac after all…

    Comment by Pierre — 4th August, 2008 #

  7. Actually Im already running leopard on it now :) I’m using the wifi card from the macbook pro in the MSI wind :)

    Comment by admin — 4th August, 2008 #

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