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MSI Wind Netbook - Trusted Reviews

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Trusted Reviews have published a review of the MSI Wind - Windows XP Edition Netbook. 'Internally the Wind features many of the same components that make up most Intel based Netbooks. Directing proceedings is a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 processor, supported by an ample 1GB of RAM. This combination deals with the Windows XP OS of our review sample very well. In fact, if anything the Wind feels marginally snappier and more responsive than the Eee PC and its Linux OS, though we're only talking split seconds here

It also boasts a plentiful 80GB hard drive. After formatting and OS installation this is reduced to around 70GB of free space in two partitions of 39GB and 31.5GB, but this still leaves plenty of space for reasonable music and video collections along with programs and documents. You'll need to download a few programs, too, because unlike the Linux versions of the Eee PC, the Wind is comparatively limited when it comes to pre-installed apps. Of course, for many this is a good thing, but it does mean it lacks that immediate out of the box usability.'

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