MSI WIND U120 Netbook Specs

The original MSI Wind netbook, otherwise known as the MSI Wind U100 netbook, was a huge success, and likely still is. The Wind has developed a reputation as one of the better overall netbooks out there for a variety of reasons: value, construction quality, flexibility, and a nice keyboard. So what’s the solution to a mostly non-existent problem? Make it better.

Well, whether it’s better or not is going to be up to you decide, but the funny thing is it’s pretty much the exact same. Of course, the actual manufacturers of the parts may be different, but on the whole, it’s still the same 1.6ghz Atom-based netbook like 95% of the other netbooks out there. Now, as stated above, that’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it looks like MSI spent most of their time working on the actual Wind itself and less on the components.

What do I mean like that? Well, the chassis got a bit of a redesign, and aside from a few other little hardware changes, that’s about it. The main additions (and it may depend on which MSI Wind U100 netbook you had available in your territory) are the data cards, a slightly upgraded touch pad, and well, I guess a bigger hard drive. I wouldn’t call any of them monumental, but the HSDPA card may be for some. For me? Well, that’s just too expensive, but for those who have that service, it’ll be nice to have it built-in.

You can guess the rest of the specs because we’ve all been looking at them, or very slight variations of them, for the last few months: 1.6ghz Atom CPU, 1 gig of RAM, 160gb hard drive, 10″ screen, and the usual array of ports and readers.

So, obviously, nothing ground breaking here, but a sleeker chassis isn’t exactly a bad thing when the machine was already a winner.

Laptopmag has more details and thoughts on the MSI Wind U120 netbook.