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Netbooks have already been evolving for your previous few of years, and this MSI Wind U160 could be the most refined illustration in the breed we've noticed yet. MSI lent us a single in the slim, light, low-cost bronze-colored baubles, and we took it within the road to get a week, testing its capacity to get genuine function completed to the go. The very small Laptop aims to be a net-surfing, flexible netbook, and it nails it at a price which is way below the iPad.

At first glance, this newborn can be a splendor. With its "Fancy Gold" shade (we'd phone it more of a classy-looking bronze), wispy 2.2 pound excess weight, sharp 10.1-inch LED-backlit display, and thoroughly clean lines, it is no wonder it won a item layout award. Its pulchritude goes greater than skin deep,Windows 7 Ultimate 64, since its 1.66GHz Intel N450 Atom processor is simply quickly sufficient to breeze by means of processor-intensive jobs such as Photoshop picture editing and speech recognition.

That energy-efficient Atom processor is portion of Intel's next-generation Pine Path platform, with MSI claiming an astonishing 15-hour battery daily life for this U160. With our continual use, that did not seem possible except if we kept the display dimmed way down and permit it rest the majority of the time,Office 2010 Home And Business, but we did get a excellent 7 to 8 hours' really worth of use prior to the battery fizzled. Despite the fact that which is much less time than marketed, it is remarkable — long enough to get a day's operate carried out.

A highlight from the layout could be the seamless touchpad, blending itself into the laptop's surface with a pleasant nubby texture. And that 10-inch screen, while at first seeming too small, is just large ample to acquire the job completed, and its graphics performance smooth ample to enjoy a movie or two around the plane. In fact, the size from the 10-inch screen 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 7 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 adequate to go ahead and install a copy of Windows seven Ultimate, which ran like the wind. It really is an aptly named notebook,Genuine Office Professional Plus 2010, indeed.

While we'd like to see over 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. Although this is often a small 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 such a quality laptop for these a low cost. With its upgraded Intel N450 Atom processor, it is just rapidly sufficient to acquire work carried out to the road. 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,Windows 7 Home Premium X64 Key, 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,Genuine Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, but for now, we're digging the value and versatility of this gorgeous laptop.

Via MSI