Customer Reviews

MSI Wind 10" Mini Laptop (1.6 GHz Intel Atom Processor, 1 GB RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive, XP Home, 3 Cell Battery) Black

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(0)
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I got the Wind via the pre-order from MSI, It is top quality, excellent display, and the atom is fast. Only problem, the wireless drivers are not available for linux so, I am stuck with XP for a while. There is a work around with Ubuntu, but it did not work for me. I had an asus eee pc 701 and 900. This unit is great. 5 stars, no complaints.

Updated 5/16: Still love this computer, but the battery life is not that good. However, the 3 cells are around because of the fire at the LG battery plant in Korea. Still, some of the Dell units that are bigger, only give you 4 cells as a started. So, I am not complaining. Still can't run linux wifi, which can be overcome by changing wifi card. But that will void warranty

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I sold my Wind, I bought the Asus EEE pc 1000H. Bigger battery, and brighter screen. But I can upgrade the memory to 2G and the warranty is not voided. The 1000h flys with 2g. The wifi drivers still do not work with Linux, but you can plug in an external usb adapter and it works in Linux

Best purchase I've ever made on Amazon hands down, and I have bought a lot of stuff on here! I opted to put an alternative OS on this little treat of a UMPC. 10" is the perfect size too, 8.9" is too small for anything. Looks and works great, also practically dead silent.

I bought the MSI Wind U100 in the summer of 2009. I upgraded from 1g to 2g very easily at home in less than 5 minutes. It is the perfect laptop to travel with, and is pretty fast as well. A year later it still runs great, I havn't had any problems.

I'd been looking at mini laptops for months and had been hedging because I already have a full size laptop and it seemed too decadent to have two. But I travel a lot and my Sony was a pain to lug around. I got the MSI and I love it! It was WELL worth it and makes traveling so much more pleasant. The performance is great and the keyboard is actually usable, unlike the same size Acer laptops I looked at.

I bought the MSI Wind mini 100U with a 3 cell battery for $309 on the net. I read excellent reviews of it in the Computer Shopper. When I received it I was quite impressed. It is a very attractive mini laptop. It came with Windows XP which worked extremely fast, even faster than my other three computers with XP. My motivation to buy this was for traveling since it is so light at 2.8 pounds.

Now for the downside. It came with just a Fast Start page which was nothing more than an explanation of what the buttons were! It had a CD with the manual on it for every language but English! I spent over eight hours trying to get it to connect to my wireless router. After four hours I read other reviews of the machine and found that the wireless modem was turned off when shipped and you had to push the buttons they show you on the fast start sheet to turn on all of its features! So if you buy it, save yourself some time by pushing the series of buttons e.g. Fn 2 thru Fn 11 to turn everything on. Nowhere was this explained! It is a wireless N modem supposedly backwardly compatible with G series routers. After trying IE and Firefox and several conversations with my internet provider and router vendor over a four hour period I gave up and returned the unit. MSI has no weekend support hours. I never did get it to connect to the internet. Perhaps it was defective. Perhaps other units would work fine. It is a quick well designed unit I liked very much. If only it worked. It did connect to the web when connected directly to the router but that is not how I intended to use it. Most hotels today have wireless internet connectivity. [ASIN:B001BIK9H4 MSI Wind 10" Mini Laptop 1.6 GHz Intel Atom Processor, 1 GB RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive, XP Home, 3 Cell Battery) Black]]

This is the best netbook on the market right now it has the perfect size and specifications. When I tell people about it the first thing they say is what is MSI? So I tell them who they are, and they are not pleased until i show them. They absolutely go ballistic. The size and cute factor is what reels people in.

Whats on the bad side of this laptop is the customer service. They have a terrible phone system. You can follow every key prompt and still someone has to transfer you when you finally reach an operator. Thats after waiting for 30 min also. The reason why I had to call them was because the battery went kaput not even a week of owning it. Now this might be just my case but I have never had anything go out that quick before. I am still waiting for the laptop battery now.

MSI wind is amazing, light, easy to carry around and good battery life. Only drawback is this model comes with a 3 cell batter, upgrade to that and everything is fixed.

I liked the size and look of the netbook. Unfortunately my screen was defective and I had to return it. I ended up buying an ASUS 1000H which had wireless N, larger battery, and $100 less than an equivalent Wind with 6 cell battery.

Neither one is 100% perfect, but I am happy I switched.

Awesome computer, however the 3 cell battery is woefully inadequate for a mobile computer. Only getting around 2 hours on a computer that specializes in mobility. They shouldn't have bothered with this until they had enough 6 cell batteries.