MSI Announces HD-Capable Wind U110 Eco Netbook
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Netbook graphics have experienced swift developments in the recent past, with the boosts in HD capability and NVIDIA Ion platform being highlights. MSI is beginning to take steps in the direction of other manufacturers with the release of its latest netbook: the MSI Wind U110 Eco.
The changes to the newest member of the MSI Wind family come in the form of a 2 GB RAM option, an Intel Atom Z530 chip, a discrete ATI Mobility Radeon HD3200 GPU, and the unexpected Intel Poulsbo US15W chipset.
The Poulsbo is usually found on MIDs rather than netbooks, but the ATI Mobility Radion HD3200 has been implanted into both desktops and notebooks for notable graphical success. The addition of this powerhouse means the MSI Wind U110 Eco netbook will handle just about any kind of HD video out there. Gaming on the netbook might not be glorious, but movies will look spicy fine and that’s something we can all get excited about.
The netbook has appended ‘Eco’ to the end of its title for a few economical and ecofriendly adjustments to the standard formula seen in older models. The U110 supposedly cranks a godly 9 hours of juice out of a miniscule 3-cell battery, an outstanding ratio of dubious truth. Some of the other machines I’ve heard of boasting numbers even close to that have been interesting in theory, but merely smirk-worthy in their execution. The 10-cell battery designed for the ASUS Eee PC, for example, weighed more than the netbook itself!
However, MSI’s Wind U110 Eco is anything but a joke. The display packs 1024×600 pixels into its 10-inch screen, along with a 1.3 or 2-inch integrated webcam. You get Bluetooth, wireless internet, a 4-in-1 card reader, and either Windows XP Home or Vista Basic for the OS.
MSI has announced that the U110 Eco has the biggest netbook keyboard released thus far, with ample space for the trackpad as well.
We expect the new MSI netbook to hit the market in the $400-$500 range, which goes towards the HD video capability, ATI graphics, and nine hours of battery life. If MSI delivers everything it says it will through this netbook, the bar will be knocked up quite a few notches for machines to come.
Via TomsHardware.
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