This Week in Netbooks

New MSI Wind Specs

MSI is adding two new netbooks to its lineup: the MSI Wind U110 and the U115.

The U115 will feature a new “hybrid storage” sytem comprised of both a solid state disk and a traditional magnetic storage hard drive. The machine will use the SSD as the sytem disk while the HDD will be used for mass storage of applications, documents and media files.

In addition to being more durable, solid state drives can also be faster and run cooler since they have no moving parts. That said, we can only assume that the drives in the U115 will be of the faster variety otherwise, why bother with the hybrid system, right?

The U115 will be available with an 8 GB SSD/80 GB HDD, a 16 GB SSD/120 GB HDD, or a 32 GB SSD/160 GB HDD. The netbook will also use the Intel Atom Z530 processor, not the commonly used N270 chip used in many (most?) other current generation netbooks. The Z530 uses less power than the N270 and any netbooker will appreciate the (expected) increase in battery life.

The MSI Wind U110 has the same basic specs as the U115, except that it uses only traditional HDD’s offered in 120 GB, 160 GB, or 250 GB sizes. In addition to the Intel Atom Z530 CPU, both machines will feature a 10-inch display running at a 1024 x 600 resolution, 802.11b/g + draft-n WiFi, Bluetooth, and a 4-in-1 multi-format card reader. The U110 will ship with 1GB of RAM, while the U115 will ship with 1 or 2 GB or RAM. No word on what the maximum RAM capacities will be although I hope they will continue to be easily upgraded, like the Wind 100.

Other unknowns include OS options (Windoze? Linux?) and of course, pricing.

[via Netbook3G and Blogeee]
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Posted from my Acer Aspire One, 4 GB SSD, 8 GB SD, 1.5 GB RAM, 9-Cell Extended Battery.

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