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MSI's updated, and prettified, Wind netbook is at last available to buy. Coming in at a not-too-pricey $470 over at Amazon (the list price is $535), the new Wind U120 offers absolutely no surprises for the netbook-aware. It has the usual Intel Atom 1.6GHz processor, a gig of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, Bluetooth 2.0 and Wi-Fi stretching up to n speeds.
In fact, the only difference is the case design -- it's shinier, has sharper edges and is altogether more grown-up looking than the original U110. It also ships as standard with the longer-lived six-cell battery, the minimum for an ultra portable machine. And MSI has even given it a unibody MacBook-a-like black screen bezel.
No word yet on just how hackable this is. The original Wind was the perfect machine upon which to install Mac OS X, with plentiful drivers for just about all of the internal hardware. If this really is nothing more than an updated case design, this version should be just the same.
Product page [Amazon. Thanks, Ron!]
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