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-Comes with Restore disk, Driver disk and Restore image on HDD
-Power Cable nice and compact
-Webcam is a plus but it's not the best
-Comes with a 160GB Western Digital Blue Scorpio HDD
-Keyboard is nearly full size
-Has a Underclock setting for better Battery life
-Can run any OS really, even OSX and Windows 7
-Upgradable to 2 GB Memory at 667 mhz (read other thoughts to see how)
-Price is set at just over $300 (Thanks Newegg)
-Great Support from Wind forums and blogs
MSI did it right by not selling this to other companies to have it re-badged and rather they are selling it directly and at a much lower cost
The Pro's outweigh the cons big time. This is a Larger than most Netbook on the market and I did a lot of research and found this one to come out on top.
Do your own research if you'd like Cnet and Youtube have a lot good videos and give you a good feel on how big it is and how it stacked up against the o
Not bad at all very minor things.
-Mouse buttons small and stiff and touch pad kinda small leads to cramped hands after 3 hours
-HDD is tad on the loud side, but fast Read/Write times
-Would be better with a faster graphics processor.
-Drops frames in True HD 720p try it on Youtube
-Battery life is under 2 hours on low brightness and about 1.5 hours on full brightness (buying a 9 cell soon)
-No DVD Dive (No Netbooks do anyway, but I use an external Samsung slim DVDR DL drive and works great)
-Turbo mode can only be used while plugged in (See below about Turbo Mode)
-Keboard although big, layout a bit weird The Fn key is on the outside of the Ctrl key so copy and paste can sometimes be tricky and the ,./ keys are kinda cramped
*My only big con really* Built WiFi card is junk. Configured with Realtek Drivers works great out of the box with XP but a nightmare if you are going to change OS this is a Bigger problem OSX it has no native support you must buy new
This thing screams with more memory. The memory is upgradeable to 2GB but it has 1GB built in and so to upgrade you need only one 1GB stick PC2-5300 (Don't buy a 2GB stick it won't read it at all)
Turbo mode is engaged buy hitting Fn and F10 the power light becomes orange when done. This can only be performed while connected from what I have read the CPU is underclocked to save on battery and safeguard against the Atom CPU. Turbo mode unleashes the full power of the small CPU. you can really tell it works by trying to watch a video on youtube and watching it in high-quality mode (make sure HQ not HD) and toggle the Turbo on-off you'll see it going from a bit choppy and dropping frames to smooth and no dropped frames.
This Netbook is one of the best out there, the case is very well designed and well ventilated and the ability to to run multiple OS's really gives it a edge. Newegg Shipping was superfast had it ground shipped and in one day this thing came to my doorstep 5 out of 5
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Great with little problems
The laptop is a great little laptop. It is small and very portable. The screen is fairly bright and the keys arnt too bad to type on
Right out of the box the left click mouse worked but then with in about 5 minutes it stopped working and hasnt worked since. I called newegg on it to get it replaced and they said it was going to take 4 weeks to replace it.
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