MSI Wind pricing revealed, available for preorder

The MSI Wind is one of the most hotly anticipated next generation low-cost ultraportables. Like the Eee PC, the Wind will be small, light-weight, and far cheaper than old school ultraportables. But unlike the current generation Eee PCs, the MSI Wind will have a 10 inch screen, an 80GB hard drive, and a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor.

And now we finally know how much the computer will cost. Online retailer Expansys has put up preorder pages for versions of the MSI Wind running Linux and Windows XP. The Linux mode will set you back $560, while the XP version will cost $610.

While those prices make the Wind a bit higher than the $549 Eee PC 900, the Wind will have a larger screen (with the same 1024 x 600 pixel resolution as the Eee PC 900′s 9 inch display) and Intel’s newest power-saving processor which should improve both performance and battery life.

[via Blogeee and Slashgear]

Posted on Friday, May 9th, 2008, 8:07 am by Brad Linder

BobH

Any word, hints, rumors on which Linux version they will use?
Johnny

but they only offer a black model
Kennedy808

Do you know if there will still be the 8.9″ screen option? Even 10″ would start to be too big for me. Or would the 8.9″ use the same case anyway?
saab_rider

I’m confused. I thought the official MSI Wind images they released, and even the Wind unit “reviewed” by that Turkish guy were of the 8.9″ unit.

Am I wrong? I thought we still didn’t see the 10″ Wind… Now they release the price of the 10″ before the price of the 8.9″??
Laundry

Yeah I’m also not interested in the 10″ model at all.
Small + cheap is what’s in my interest, this is starting to smell like an ordinary notebook race.
Josh

With a US launch date of June 3rd, anyone know of any vendors taking pre-orders on the US version?
Josh

With a US launch date of June 3rd, anyone know of any vendors taking pre-orders on the US version?
Josh

With a US launch date of June 3rd, anyone know of any vendors taking pre-orders on the US version?

MSI Wind pricing revealed, available for preorder

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