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MSI Wind U115 Hybrid stars in unboxing session

One of the most highly-awaited netbooks from MSI’s stable of 10-inch Winds is the MSI Wind U115 Hybrid. The word Hybrid in its name comes from the fact that it will have both an SSD and a hard drive for storage (though the SSD will be used primarily for the netbook’s OS). And besides which, [...]

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MSI Wind CS120 starts shipping in the U.S.

Heard of the MSI Wind CS120? It’s a desktop counterpart to MSI’s Wind U120 netbook. As such, it sports about the same inner components, including a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N230 processor, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB HDD, Intel GMA950 graphics, and built-in Wi-Fi. Since it’s a nettop, and it’s not necessary that it become [...]

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MSI offers free Q-Face and Windy applications for Wind netbook users

Looking for free applications for your Windows-powered MSI Wind? Well, then you’ll be happy to hear about two such things courtesy of MSI itself, and they are the MSI Q-Face and Windy Zone classic game pack. According to MSI, the MSI Q-Face (currently v.1.0.0.8) lets users easily “transform your icon on instant messaging software, by [...]

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MSI Wind U120 suffering with 1GB RAM limit?

Anyone who’s owned a netbook long enough will figure out that its stock 1GB of RAM won’t go too far when it comes to performance, especially when one is forced to make friends with Vista instead of the more lightweight Windows XP. It’s a good thing that manufacturers have provisioned for extra memory slots so [...]

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BIOS Update v1.0A for MSI Wind

Thanks to Brad at Liliputing for the heads up on the new BIOS update from MSI for the Wind U100 netbook. The update reportedly works fine if you are running Windows XP or a hackintosh Wind running OS X and fixes a few small problems such as an issue affecting the S4 sleep mode. The [...]

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