MSI Wind U-100

I have a new toy!

Leader finally received their shipment of Winds. I got one in black.

Specs as follows:

Intel® Atom™ N270 Processor
• Windows® XP Home
• 10” Wide Screen Display
• Convenient Magnifying Capability
• Ergonomic Big-Size Keyboard and Touch Pad
• 80GB Hard Drive
• Built-in High Resolution Mega Pixels Webcam
• Built-in High-Performance 2 Channel Stereo Speakers, and Microphone
• 802.11b / g Wireless Lan with Bluetooth
• Comprehensive Multi-Media Application Interface

My first impression is "wow" - all this for around $700 with around a 10"/20cm footprint, and it weighs hardly anything! I get around 2.5 hours of battery life on wireless connection with the shipped 3 cell battery. The 6 cell will be out soon hopefully and I will grab that ASAP.

Immediate mods will be 1GB extra memory (it comes with 1GB of onboard memory) to go in the available memory slot, and swap over of the HDD from the OEM 80GB to a 320GB.