MSI : Eee-ish Wind PC

[allix]

Apparently MSI is gearing up to release its own Eee competitor, tentatively called the Wind PC. There's not a lot known about the system (which was shown at CeBIT), though it's slated to feature an 8- or 10-inch, 1024 x 768 display, utilize Intel's Atom CPU, will make 2.5-inch hard drive and SSD options available for storage, and will come with 1GB of RAM standard. The mini-laptops are set to range in price from £299 to £699 depending on configuration, feature 1GHz or 1.6GHz CPUs, and should first be available with a Linux build installed -- though the company claims a Windows version will be made as well. Based on photos we've seen, the laptops will come in a variety of colors, though it appears that these are still in prototype territory, so anything could change.

source: http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/09/msi- ... h-wind-pc/

It appears we are getting spoilt for choice

[greggh]

What we need is a foldable hinged screen split down the middle. That, plus a foldable keyboard split down the middle, would allow for a 15.4 screen size notebook with a carryable form factor as small as the current eee PC. I'm still waiting for some company to do this.

[allix]

That would just make it narrow and thick ?

[Tsuroerusu]

The interesting thing is that they're gonna use GNU/Linux, I mean any idiot can make a small laptop and sell it with a Windows license.

[greggh]

That would just make it narrow and thick ?

It doesn't have to be too thick. Look at how thin Apple managed to get the Air.