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Netbooks are evolving for your past few of decades, and this MSI Wind U160 could be the most refined instance in the breed we've witnessed yet. MSI lent us a single from the slim, light-weight,Windows 7 Ultimate Key, low cost bronze-colored baubles, and we took it within the street to get a week, testing its capacity to get true operate done within the go. The little Personal computer aims to be a net-surfing,Office 2010 Key, versatile netbook, and it nails it at a price that's way less than the iPad.

At first glance, this infant is really a beauty. With its "Fancy Gold" shade (we'd get in touch with it far more of the classy-looking bronze),Microsoft Office 2007 Professional, wispy two.2 pound weight, sharp 10.1-inch LED-backlit screen, and cleanse lines, it's no wonder it won a merchandise style award. Its pulchritude goes more than skin deep, because its one.66GHz Intel N450 Atom processor is just fast ample to breeze by way of processor-intensive projects this kind of as Photoshop picture editing and speech recognition.

That energy-efficient Atom processor is portion of Intel's next-generation Pine Trail platform, with MSI claiming an astonishing 15-hour battery existence for this U160. With our continual use, that didn't seem achievable until we stored the display dimmed way down and permit it sleep the majority of the time, but we did get a good 7 to eight hours' worthy of of use before the battery fizzled. Though that is a lot less time than marketed, it's exceptional — long ample to acquire a day's function done.

A highlight with the design is the seamless touchpad, blending itself into the laptop's surface with a pleasant nubby texture. And that 10-inch display, while at first seeming too small, is just large enough to get the job carried out,Office 2007 Serial, and its graphics performance smooth ample to enjoy a movie or two around the plane. In fact, the size from the 10-inch display proved itself nearly perfect to get a cramped airplane seat when that rube in front of me reclined his seatback into my lap.

The U160 as tested can be found for around $380, but there's a slight penalty for that rock-bottom price tag: its Windows seven Starter operating system. Although it really is not crippled to just three applications running at the same time as Microsoft originally announced — and it was pretty much like other versions of Windows 7 — it wouldn't permit us change the desktop wallpaper. We found that annoying enough to go ahead and install a copy of Windows seven Ultimate, which ran like the wind. It is an aptly named notebook, indeed.

While we'd like to see a lot more than the standard 1GB of RAM on board, that configuration still allowed us to run five or six apps at the same time with barely any slowdown. Even though this is really a tiny laptop, its keyboard is almost the size of much larger notebooks, with keys that push down to a shallow depth but feel just right.

It's hard to believe you can get this kind of a quality laptop for these kinds of a low price. With its upgraded Intel N450 Atom processor, it is just quick sufficient to get function carried out on the street. Will you be able to do that with an iPad? Or would a $500 ASUS convertible netbook be considered a better candidate? Like the iPad, this MSI Wind U160 is excellent for viewing movies and browsing websites, but unlike the iPad, you can choose your browser. We'll compare the two side by side, but for now, we're digging the value and versatility of this gorgeous laptop.

Via MSI