Thursday 9 October 2008

MSI Wind: Second generation

The second generation of Winds which consists of U91 and U120 models should have more powerful hardware. According to translation from Japanes the specification is.
U120:




- Display: 10″ LCD backlight
- HDD: 160 Gb
-RAM: 2 Gb
- Touchpad and buttons: there is only one touch bar button instead of two default “mouse” buttons. Due to many feedbacks, a touchpad was changed for European customers. MSI says they have solved the issue which was in it by switching to sentilic touchpads. U120 uses a Sentilic touchpad.
- 3.5 G enabled HSDPA
General info:
- A new MSI logo on board and, a name, which was changed from notebook to netbook.
- A new Wind branded accessories (mice, pouches) are expected by customers.
- The Main SD card’s purpose is moving data. MSI considers a model where the SD card is flush with the enclosure.
- AC adapter. Either 3-pin or 2-pin plugs could be chosen depending on region and country. The power of AC adapter will be decreased a bit (by 5-10Watt).
- Battery. Six-cell batter is considered and expected it will weight 1,250 g or 2.76 lb.
- Power usage: 32~34 Watts at maximum load and 6 Watts or less at idle.
- New VIA Nano CPU is considered, but it is not confirmed on 100%. Intel Dual Core Atom could be used instead of VIA.
- OS Vista to be considered.