Full Specs of the MSI Wind

  First post by: www.itsbattery.com

*giggles* some of the Compaq Laptop Battery complaints that I’ve been reading seem so far-fetched and useless for a laptop that’s basically this portable. If you want a full-blown laptop, buy the bigger screen with all those extra features! For me though, I’m looking for something that I can do basic functions with (i.e. webcam, messenger programs, surfing the web, email, and microsoft office) and especially PORTABILITY. I can’t imagine myself using this laptop for anything more than that! I’m a writer and I need a small machine to tote with me no matter where I’m at - and something that’ll be there on the fly when I get inspiration.


I don’t do all the crazy gaming or storing or anything really that some laptop users look for in a portable computer - so to hear people talking about gigabit issues and the fact that they’re not using N wifi’s etc makes me kinda laugh. The UMPC benefits those on the go really - university students who don’t want to port a huge thing to class to take notes - writers who simply need to get away or carry something small around with them (so when inspiration comes along… they’ve got themselves covered) - those who want to webcam with family Laptop Batterymembers - or those who simply need something every once in a while to check email or surf the web.


The technology is going to take some time to catch up on machines such as this because this is a new trend right now. Like all technology (even cars), everything upgrades. So I’ve made my decision based on this information:

#1) When the Asus eee pc came out, since they were on such high demand it was almost a guarantee that other companies would follow suit in the market. I waited because I wanted to see what else would come out.

#2) I like bigger harddrives (even if it’s at the cost of having an SSD at this point in technology - SSD is simply too expensive to build and market at this current time). Society has been using harddrives for a LONG time, so unless you know you’re a clutz and are going to be dropping this thing often, I can’t imagine that it’d be THAT huge of a deal to put a harddrive on this kind of a machine.

#3) Price is coming down a lot for these little units - in time, I’m sure it’s going to drop even more. But the main reason I’ve finally decided on the msi wind…


#4) This little machine has everything I (personally) Compaq Armada M700 Battery am looking for. Compatability for the next (at least) two years of use - easy and simplicity of use - affordability - and it looks pretty sleek compared to all the others I’ve seen on the market so far (as well as some that are still being prototyped). No it’s not perfect, but I think it’s definitely going to work for me for what I’m choosing to use it for at this point.


I’ve looked at the dell prototype and just don’t like it - I think design-wise it looks exactly like the hp 2133 (which is a little too dark and metallic looking for my taste)… and from what I’ve heard it’s just not going to meet my standards for what I’m looking for in a UMPC.

So what it all comes down to is… I simply like this machine… I like the way they’ve marketed it and I like what it has to offer. Everyone is different, but this works for me. And with the knowledge that all technology pretty much goes out of date a few years after purchase (sometimes much sooner), I think that this is a good buy for the time being. I’m pretty much assuming that I’ll be upgrading again in the next two years anyway - but for now, this is good enough for me.


Speed of card reader? (getting tired of card readers that are slower than the Compaq EVO N400c Battery cards, and/or can’t handle large capacity cards. So you end up carrying around a stupid usb2.0 reader anyways, or else just living with 1980’s nostalgia waiting for progress bars all the time.)


If you routinely move pics from a camera, audiobooks and mp3’s onto a Treo, etc, and you have 4 and 8 gb cards, speed of the reader is a big deal.

Gigabit is a big deal too since, without a cd drive you will be doing more things over the network, plus it makes backups less painful.


Compromising on some specs for the sake of portability and battery life is one thing, but compromising on some specs actually makes it even more important not to compromise on some others. Something’s gotta give somewhere. Like if you’re going to have a slow cpu, then you better have more ram and that ram should be as fast as possible. If you’re not going to have any optical drive and only a small ssd for hard drive, then you better have the best networking options available so you have a decent chance of connecting conveniently wherever you wander, since no single Compaq EVO N410c Battery form of networking is everywhere, or available to you everywhere anyways.