Thursday, October 9th 2008

MSI Wind U120 Spotted

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Fudzilla have managed to get hands on some pictures of MSI's upcoming Wind U120 netbook, the succesor of today's Wind U100. If the supplied information is right the new Wind, also named Wind 2, will be supplied with either a 120GB hard drive or 20/40GB SSD which will come at a later date. Other specs suggest a 802.11n Wi-Fi, built-in webcam and a 3.5G modem that will accept a SIM card, the same Intel platform and Intel Atom CPU. In other words, the U120 will still be similar to the U100, both in specs and design. See for yourself below. The MSI Wind U120 should be available in December for less than $600.
Source: Fudzilla

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17 Comments on MSI Wind U120 Spotted

#1
mdm-adph
Ah, the second wind! :laugh:
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#2
to6ko91
I thouth that the wind is a NETbook rather than NOTEbook:rolleyes: (first picture)
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#4
Error 404
insiderIt looks rather chunky, what does it weigh 2.5kg?!
It only looks chunky because it isn't sitting next to a 15" notebook that dwarfs it.
IMO it looks really nice, the detailing looks good. However, the only way anyone is going to get me to buy one is if Intel gets some better graphics/chipset solutions for the Atom. :shadedshu
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Fitseries3
Eleet Hardware Junkie
so if i dropped it and it broke... i could say i broke wind?

looks nice... i may get one.
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#6
Scrizz
fitseries3so if i dropped it and it broke... i could say i broke wind?

looks nice... i may get one.
:wtf: :shadedshu
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#7
Mussels
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i'm actually rather interested in this. i wonder what CPU it has
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Deleted member 3
Error 404It only looks chunky because it isn't sitting next to a 15" notebook that dwarfs it.
IMO it looks really nice, the detailing looks good. However, the only way anyone is going to get me to buy one is if Intel gets some better graphics/chipset solutions for the Atom. :shadedshu
Why exactly would you require better graphics? These machines aren't meant for graphically intensive tasks. If you have the urge to run Autocad on the road, get a mobile workstation. If it's gaming you're after > you're addicted. Either get rid of the addiction or get a bigger machine, basically the same sugestion as cad.
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newtekie1
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DanTheBanjomanWhy exactly would you require better graphics? These machines aren't meant for graphically intensive tasks. If you have the urge to run Autocad on the road, get a mobile workstation. If it's gaming you're after > you're addicted. Either get rid of the addiction or get a bigger machine, basically the same sugestion as cad.
Exactly, making them more powerful would only hurt battery life, and give no real world performance boost in the applications they are used for.
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#11
mdm-adph
DanTheBanjomanWhy exactly would you require better graphics?
They are meant for web browsing, though, and Adobe Flash is pretty hardware intensive -- the new version of Flash (version 10) is even going to start using GPU acceleration, and you have to admit some faster graphics would work a bit better for that.

I really don't think the original poster was meaning his comment to be an indication that he was wanting a 9800M GTS in the new Wind.
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#12
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More GPU power + greater power efficiency is what Intel is developing next, more processing power while consuming similar amounts of power, a new design from the ground up plus a die shrink...
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newtekie1
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mdm-adphThey are meant for web browsing, though, and Adobe Flash is pretty hardware intensive -- the new version of Flash (version 10) is even going to start using GPU acceleration, and you have to admit some faster graphics would work a bit better for that.

I really don't think the original poster was meaning his comment to be an indication that he was wanting a 9800M GTS in the new Wind.
I don't really think the new version of flash is going to require anything more powerful than the GM950 bundled with the current Atom processors.
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#14
mdm-adph
newtekie1I don't really think the new version of flash is going to require anything more powerful than the GM950 bundled with the current Atom processors.
I don't expect you to take my word for it, of course -- I'm going to have to find some benchmarks to prove it -- but I happen to do a little bit of Flash dev on this type of chipset, and I can tell you, it's a hog. The GMA950 doesn't have any sort of hardware based geometry processing at all.

If netbook owners stay away from heavy Flash sites, they'll be okay, I guess -- the practice of making completely Flash-based websites needs to be ended, anyway. Maybe the netbook craze will help get rid of Flash when used as the framework for an entire website once and for all. :laugh:
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newtekie1
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In the devolopment, yes the chipset is underpowered, but just viewing the sites doesn't require anything more. I have yet to find a site that boggs down on my Eee.
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#16
mdm-adph
newtekie1In the devolopment, yes the chipset is underpowered, but just viewing the sites doesn't require anything more. I have yet to find a site that boggs down on my Eee.
And your experiences differ from my experiences -- such is the Internet.

Do this benchmark on your Eee, and post what FPS you got.
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newtekie1
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mdm-adphAnd your experiences differ from my experiences -- such is the Internet.

Do this benchmark on your Eee, and post what FPS you got.
14FPS on my Eee.

Now show me a functional site that is more than just a benchmark designed to show the worst case senerio and I'll agree with you. 3Dmark06 has low framerates, even on high end hardware, and we don't say the hardware isn't capable of playing games, do we?

Edit: My SLi-9800GTX-Q6600-4GB-of-RAM machine gets a whole 21FPS on the test. A 6FPS increase going from one of the weakest setups you will find, to one of the strongest. Not extactly convincing that a graphical boost would actually help in this situation.
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