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Archive for December 14, 2008
MSI Wind is in “Vogue” in Japan
Dec 14th
More Wind news with the announcement of the new Wind U100 Vogue netbook from MSI.
The ‘Vogue’ is available in three color variations including pink – “romantic pink”, white – “white angel” and black – “black empire” along with a white model which has heart graphics adorning it’s white exterior, will be Atom powered and was due to be released in Japan on the 13th of this month. There doesn’t seem to be a release planned for the rest of the world currently.
Specifications are posted below and include the addition of Windows XP SP3:
- 10.2-inch wide display
- Intel ® Atom ™ processor (1.6GHz)
- Intel ® 945GSE + ICH7M chipset
- 1GB RAM
- 160GB HDD
- 1.3 Megapixel Webcam
- 260×180×19.4 40mm
- IEEE 802.11b/g/n
- 4-in-1 card reader
- Bluetooth 2.0+EDR
The product page is located here, in it’s Google translated form.
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
MSI Wind is in “Vogue” in Japan
Must have XP utilities for netbooks
Dec 14th
Following on from 10 ways to tweak your netbook, Gigaom have posted up a list of seven applications that will make your Windows XP based netbook “shine”. While some are obvious choices for all Windows users, such as Windows Movie Maker and Foxit PDF Reader, the other applications listed will be useful for many a netbook owner, myself included.
To get the most out of your netbook sized screen, Tweak UI, Xplorer2 and Virtual Desktop Manager are recommended. Virtual Desktop Manager, as the name suggests, gives you up to four virtual desktops which you can use for various tasks, with email on one and web browser in another as an example. Switching between the desktops is also easy and quick to do. Tweak UI on the other hand allows customization of how XP looks on the small screen with the ability of making the boxes within the Windows bar bigger. For those who move files to and from different folders frequently, Xplorer2 allows you to drag and drop the files from different folders in one window.
The other two mention applications are SyncToy, which allows you to keep two folders sync, meaning that your important files, can always be with you, and SharpKeys. SharpKeys allows you to remap the keys on your netbook.
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
Must have XP utilities for netbooks
BIOS Update v1.0A for MSI Wind
Dec 14th
Thanks to Brad at Lilliputing for the heads up on the new BIOS update from MSI for the Wind U100 netbook.
The update reportedly works fine if you are running Windows XP or a hackintosh Wind running OS X and fixes a few small problems such as an issue affecting the S4 sleep mode. The update is also reported to work on the Advent 4211, which is a Wind clone so it figures that it would, too.
Full changelog for version 1.0A of the BIOS:
1. Fixed auto into S4 issue.
2. DOC percentage item add warning message in setup menu.
3. Update EC file.
Only minor changes but, for owners of an MSI Wind (or perhaps, a clone of), the BIOS update can be found and downloaded here on the official MSI website.
A post from the Asus Eee PC blog.
BIOS Update v1.0A for MSI Wind
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