MSI has launched a new version of its Wind U230 thin and light notebook. The original U230 had a 12.1 inch display, but the new MSI Wind U230 Light has a slightly smaller 11.6 inch display. The screen size is the primary difference between the new Light model and earlier versions of the U230. Like its predecessors, the enw laptop…

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The MSI Wind12 U230 is one of MSI’s newest thin and light laptops with an 12.1  inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display. While MSI’s previous thin and lights have sported Intel Atom or Intel Consumer Ultra Low Voltage chips, the Wind12 U230 packs an AMD Athlon Neo X2 dual core CPU and ATI HD 3200 graphics. TestFreaks has published one…

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MSI has been showing off its latest 12 inch notebooks for a few months. But now it looks like it’s actually available for purchase in the US. The MSI Wind U230 comes in two flavors. The Wind U230-033 has an AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 CPU and 250GB hard drive while the AMD U230-040 has  dual core AMD Athlon X2 L335…

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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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In terms of performance and battery life, MSI’s new Wind U230 seems to fall somewhere between the other Wind netbooks and MSI’s line-up of larger, more traditional notebooks. It’s got a solid ATI GPU under the hood, and performed well in gaming tests – though the AMD Neo processor couldn’t keep up with Intel’s SU7300. Nevertheless, the thin-and-light U230 is…

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The MSI Wind U230 is a 12.1 inch laptop with a dual core AMD Neo processor. It made a brief cameo appearance on the MSI web site last month before disappearing for a bit. But now the Wind U230 is back, and there’s even  a press release to make things all official-like and stuff. In a nutshell, the Wind U230…

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MSI has quietly introduced an updated version of the company’s U2xx series of 12.1 inch laptops. The MSI Wind U230 looks almost identical to the U200/U210 laptops that are already available, but the new model features two major updates: It runs Windows 7 Home Premium instead of Windows XP It features a dual core AMD Neo X2 processor Here’s a…

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