PC World are advertising this:-
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/editorial/advent-netbook/?int=home-1
on sale from Monday.

Its exactly the same as the MSI Wind
http://www.expansys.com/c.aspx?f=1468
but £83 cheaper.

<cancels order from Expansys>

Makes the Asus EEE 901 look overpriced :)

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On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 20:19:45 +0000 (UTC), "frag" <ne...@ukrm.co.uk>
wrote:

Windows XP?!
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On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:31:37 +0100, BGN <nickmoo...@spamcop.net>
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Now I'm even more confused, the full specs on the PC World site state:

"...it features the easy to use Genuine Windows Vista (R) XP operating
system..."

Never seen Windows Vista XP before...
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Someone had a brain fart.

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On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 23:30:39 +0100, "Cab"

'snot.

Click the Info button (left of Add) then go to 'View full product
information' and it lists it as "Genuine Windows Vista (R) XP"
clicking on the Geniune Windows Vista (R) XP link links to a page with
the Windows Vista logo on it and details about Genuine Windoze.

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On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 21:52:31 +0100, "Dave Emerson"

I'm quite interested in this laptopette (subnotebook?) but can't find
the battery life details - unless it's just a rebadged MSI Wind?  IN
which case it's either 2.5 hrs or 5.5 hrs depending on which battery
it ships with!

I bought a new Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Li 1818[1] lapdog in September
for £499 or something similar but it's so fucking huge and the battery
life is pitiful (about 40 minutes) that I hardly use it.  Having it on
ones lap isn't really possible as the vents and fans are all placed
direclty where legs and knees live meaning using it on the lap blocks
them all up and it gets rather warm.  The Amilo has reasonable
specs[2] but it's a desktop computer squeezed into a laptop.

My old Dell had 8 hours life unplugged when using the main battery +
the media bay battery as I hardly ever used the CD/DVD writer so the
large battery just went in the slot instead.

[1]
<http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/home/products/notebooks/amilo_li_18xx....>
& <http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/Resources/213/61229948.jpg>

[2] Core 2 Duo T2080, 2Gb RAM, 120Gb SATA, DVD+- writer, 17%
"BrillaintView" screen (guess where all the battery power goes...) a
'reasonable for a laptop' 128Mb 3D accelerator, model, 10/100 LAN +
WiFi b/g + Vista Home Premium
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Ah, I didn't have the energy to go that far. I just checked the URL.

Anyway, LITSTPRTI.

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No, its a notebook with Windows XP installed on it.

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It comes with XP, PC World are idiots. But idiots who sell nice dirt
cheap notebooks before anyone else does.

It is.

Have a read on www.msiwind.net , they've compared the two and they're
exactly the same, bar case colours.

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It's the only thing putting me off too -

http://www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk/20080702639/msi-wind-u100/page-3.html

Scroll down to the bottom, and you can see, it's pretty poor for something
like that.  And also note -
"MSI announced a few weeks ago that the Wind would ship with a 2200mAh
battery rather than the original 5200mAh one we saw in the prototype
model.
This is obviously disappointing, since the prototype had a battery life of
several hours (at least according to Windows' own estimate - we weren't
able
to test it) and that made for a very versatile laptop."

So, hmmm....

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