By Evan Ackerman
My favorite netbook company, MSI, has just announced the retail availability of their latest and greatest extra portable and extra cheap laptops: the Wind U160. Besides a redesigned svelte exterior, the U160 brings along a 1.66 GHz Atom N450 and a shocking 15 hours of battery life. Even if you figure that you’ll only get 50% of that in normal use (which, in my experience, is what it works out to most of the time), that’s still a solid day’s worth of juice. The rest of the specs are what you’ve come to know and tolerate from netbooks, including the gig of ram, 250gb HD, LED backlit WSVGA screen, crappy integrated graphics, and blah blah blah. Oh, and Windows 7.
On a personal note, the only reason I’m not buying myself a U160 is that my U100 is still running like a champ after a couple years and multiple oopsies. I can only hope that the U160 offers a similar amount of dependability (plus relatively easy access to the HD and RAM) in this new form factor.
The MSI Wind U160 is available now at Fry’s, and online at Buy.com and Newegg, for $380.
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How's it for speed Evan? I'm the guy that stands in front of the microwave saying hurry up. Obviously I can't expect blazing speed but I can't sit all day waiting for a page load either. Well actually I can but I choose not to.
If my tablet laptop gives up on me, I might have to consider a new laptop.
If my tablet laptop gives up on me, I might have to consider a new laptop.
nice review.thanks for sharing.$380 is available.but don't know the quality of the notebook.now hve many low price notebook have a poor quality.Dell XPS M1210 battery
The U160 does not seem to be getting great reviews
The U160 has not received great reviews so far from what I've seen. Plus, in the UK, it is just over £300 so, as much as I like MSI's, I don't think they are going to sell a bundle.