I’ve been a fan of MSI’s Wind series of netbooks — I’ve wanted one since 2008 — to get some writing done on the road, maybe do some photo editing and play some low-end games. This was the u100 – u160.
2010. I got my MSI Wind u230. It’s also a good thing that I waited — these netbooks started having dual-cores, bigger memories, bigger harddisks and a much lower price point. (Read: the future rocks!) It’s a well-built machine: fantastic full-sized keyboard, can do heavy-lifting, and is extremely portable. I can work anywhere with this thing! It also has the power to run StarCraft 2! Though at lower graphical settings and whatnot — this machine’s played a coupla rounds of Reaper rushes.
Found out that I have the same netbook as Mikko’s brother Carlo — he then told me about the update to this model, the u250. Did a little searching and of what little info I found (it’s made appearances in Europe! But MSI is an Asian company, is it not?) I’ll share in this post.
From liliputing:
Here’s what I could glean from the Energy Star page. The MSI U250 will have a 1.3GHz AMD Athlon II Neo dual core K325 CPU, also known as the AMD Geneva K325 processor. The computer will run Windows 7, have 4GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, and a video card with 512MB of dedicated video memory. I’m assuming that means it has the usual ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics.We also know that it uses about 30.7kWh of electricity per year and consumes about 10.6 watts when idle.
More than 4GB of RAM means it’ll have to ship with 64-bit Windows 7 — oh, and that new design! I could only dream it has an infinitely-better trackpad — and maybe have the screen be able to tilt a bit more. At a projected price of $600, it’ll cost more or less the same as for what I paid my u230 by next year.
512MB of dedicated video memory? I’d really hope they’d update the HD 3200 (2008 technology, yow) with something a bit more powerful — for it to really be a contender in portable gaming.
[Photos from NewGadgets.de]
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