Joanna Stern has got the latest about the MSI Wind.  Hybrid storage coming soon?  Looks like a storm is brewing.  Hit the link to read the rest.

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The rest of the pictures can be found here or in the image gallery.

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Joe wrote in to say that Hoda Technology and EETI have collaborated to bring touchscreen to the wind netbook. The screen has appeared on ebay and is said to be compatible with windows, linux and mac operating systems.

The ebay description makes it seem as thought the kit comes with a hub which would allow you to add more devices to the wind.

XtremeSystems have managed to overclock a MSI Wind U100 to 2385 MHz with 2GB of ram and cooled with liquid nitrogen, so “Do not try this at home” might be good advice on this matter. The 1.6GHz Atom was pushed to 2.4GHz before giving up the ghost.

Laptop Mag has had their hands on a pre-production release of the wind U120. from the article;

Our first look at the MSI Wind U120 has us excited for what MSI is promising in the final production unit. Until recently the MSI Wind was our favorite netbook, but then the Samsung NC10 arrived on the scene with a stronger battery life and an even sleeker chassis. Will the Wind U120 rival our current category favorite?

If MSI works in some pretty neat features into this netbook, including advanced mobile broadband connectivity and a solid state disk drive, it could very well reclaim its position as our favorite 10-inch netbook. If you are waiting for that perfect netbook, you may just want to hold off until the U120 is ready for its debut.

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pocket-lint recently announced their gadget of the year and the wind came out on top in both the best laptop and best product of the year. Beating the apple iPhone to the top place as the must have gadget of the year (don’t tell engadget though).

Product of the Year was fiercely fought this year, however the MSI Wind pipped the Apple iPhone 3G by a whisker to be crowned the “must have” gadget of 2025.

The wind also manged to come out on top over the Toshiba Portege R500

The MSI Wind gained the Best Laptop/Netbook award from Toshiba who came in second with the Portege R500.

Great news as pocket-lint is one of the more reputable sites around.

Bestbuy has lowered the price of the MSI wind to just $349.99 ($350). This is for the version with the 3 cell battery and Windows XP (genuine advantage awesome edition). Nice to see the wind at a more competitive price.

warning there have been reports of problems with this battery where the battery cause the computer to suddenly shutdown please see the following topic for details HERE

I have had chance to review one of the new nine cell batteries that have recently come out for the wind and I have to say that the battery preformed well even under a heavy load. You can get the battery here;

For the Black battery go here:
http://www.lionbattery.com/description.php?noproduit=1630
For the White battery go here:
http://www.lionbattery.com/description.php?noproduit=1631

There was a discount code which was “MSIWIND.NET”, which will give you a 10% discount. The price of the battery before the discount is $179.95 (US) and $161.95 (US) with the discount andthat includes free worldwide delivery.

Lion Battery for the MSI Wind Reviewed

The Little Gems Hostal is trying to raise Funds too get netbooks for childeren that were previous child labourers. If you are interested in helping out you can get more information here;

http://www.justgiving.com/littlegems and http://help2educate.org/

We care for and provide education to child labourers in Nepal. We visit stone quarries, brick kilns and coal mines to interview children working in dangerous and unhealthy environments. Children are then selected on the basis of the results of our questionnaire, field interview and observation. We do so because we want to help the neediest children.

Thanks.

Gizmodo has posted the above picture of the new MSI Wind U120, check out full article and its price by following the link below.

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