MSI Wind U230: One Last Hurrah for the AMD Athlon Neo X2 Congo
by Dustin Sklavos on August 4, 2010 7:00 PM EST- Posted in
- Laptops
- AMD
- MSI
- U230
- Athlon Neo X2
MSI chose to outfit the Wind U230 with the typical glossy 1366x768 screen found on other 12.1" portables, but mercifully it's a pretty good screen from cursory inspection. The hinge doesn't tilt the screen back very far, but the limit is actually about where the ideal angle is going to be. Viewing angles and uniformity, at least from first glance, are solid.
Solid relative to the competition, at least. The results sit right in the middle of our charts, but the fact of the matter is that outside of the high contrast LCD on the ASUS 1001P (and the older 1005HA), all of the LCDs look similar. The higher resolution of the U230 display is a real selling point over standard Atom netbooks, but there's not much else to recommend it.
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ProDigit - Monday, August 9, 2010 - link
If we compare this product to the Atom processor netbooks, we have to account for the fact that this one is nearly twice as expensive.Especially when you know that the battery life of this sucker is not even lasting a fifth of an Atom processor, we just got 2 different beasts for 2 different audiences!
I would love to see this one's performance, with the battery life of an Atom processor platform.
I'd rather believe in Intel boosting the speed of the atom, than in AMD making a more efficient platform.
ProDigit - Monday, August 9, 2010 - link
But I do believe the graphics processor of the N450 series should be removed, and add a budget/power efficient AMD/ATI card in there and you'd have the best of both worlds.Why does industry have to be so difficult to just not make the best when they can?