The MSI Wind U120 Netbook!

2008 October 13

by Greg M.

I saw a girl at Gramstand yesterday who was using a new MSI Wind U120 “Netbook.” They are still not available in the U.S., but will be by year’s end. To anyone who does IT field work (ahem), using one of these would be like swapping out your Case Logic 180 disc album of software for a handful of flash drives in a smooth, velvet pouch! Okay, that sounds goofy, buy you try walking over, around, and under Manhattan all day with a cross-platform, full network support, in-home and on-site tech business on your back! Yeah, that’s right, I said it!

Anyway, if we’re not all sleeping in boxes in mall parking lots before December, MSI might get to ship enough over for me to slide one in my back pocket without notice. The specs: 120GB HDD (or a 20GB / 40GB SSD), 802.11n WiFi and built-in 3.5G WWAN. And if you pick it up and close your eyes, it feels just like you’re about to eat a warm croissant. Which is not at all like the feeling you get running to a 5th floor walk-up with an IBM ThinkPad.

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