While AMD was in no rush to challenge Intel on smaller netbooks, it seems pretty clear that 11.6″ machines is where they’re drawing the line in the sand. Models like the Asus 1201T are starting to appear running the Neo processor, and now we’ve got two (possibly) from MSI set to land on U.S. soil. As spotted by Wireless Goodness,…

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MSI has added a new AMD Athlon Neo-powered laptop to its lineup. The 12.1 inch notebook looks an awful lot like the previously released MSI Wind U210, but the new model has a new name and a new operating system. It’s called the MSI L2100-036US and it runs Windows 7 Home Premium instead of Windows Vista. The CPU is a…

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MSI’s Wind U210 is a 12.1 inch laptop that looks pretty much identical to the Wind U200 on the outside. But there are two big differences. First, the Wind U210 uses an AMD Neo processor and ATI graphics instead of an Intel chipset, and second it’s actually available in the US. The one question I’ve had about the U210 since…

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The MSI Wind U210 is faster than your typical netbook thanks to its 1.6GHz AMD Neo MV-40 processor and ATI Radeon X1250 graphics. But those are the exact same specs that drag battery life down on the HP Pavilion DV2. So how does the Wind U210 fare in the battery life department? Blogeee decided to find out, and ran an…

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The MSI Wind U210 is a 12.1 inch laptop with a 1.6GHz AMD Neo processor, ATI Radeon X1250 graphics, and HDMI output. It packs a bit more power than your typical netbook, but doesn’t cost much more. It’s now available in the US from Amazon for as little as $429.99 (For some reason Amazon charges $40 more for the white…

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European computer vendor Medion has a long history of offering rebranded versions of MSI netbooks under its own name. And by long history, I mean, they’ve been doing it for the year and a half or so that MSI has been making netbooks in the first place. The nice thing is that sometimes the Medion versions are cheaper and/or have…

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At first blush, the MSI Wind U210 looks a lot like the company’s line of 10-inch netbooks. But unlike the U100, U120, and U123, the MSI Wind U120 has a 12.1 inch display and an AMD processor and ATI graphics. First spotted in Europe just over a week ago, the Wind U210 is now available for pre-order in the US….

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The MSI Wind U210 is a 12 inch laptop with an AMD Neo processor. It looks a lot like an oversized Wind U100 netbook, and it’s actually the second laptop from MSI that I can say that about. The first is the MSI Wind U200, which is a 12 inch laptop with an Intel CULV processor. Neither model is available…

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MSI introduced the MSI Wind U200 a while back. It basically looks like an oversized MSI Wind U100 with a 12.01 inch display. It also packs more powerful specs, including a 1366 x 768 pixel display, up to 4GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, and a 1.2GHz Intel CULV processor. But with great power comes great… price tags. The…

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