Category: new notebook models
By: Pallab Jyotee Hazarika
MSI brings out the X320 to rival Macbook Air
MSI brings out the X320, available both with Atom as well as with a Pentium chip, the later version of which might well challenge Macbook Air.
MSI X320
Side view
Micro-Star International (MSI), the Taiwanese manufacturer behind the popular Wind U100 netbook, has announced a new range of larger machines called the X-Slim series. The company showed off its first X-Slim device, the X320 netbook, at the CES, at Las Vegas, last Thursday.
Before it was rumored to be on Atom chip, but the latest speculations will make the power-hungry happier. The company should bring out a variant with a Pentium Dual Core chip also, which will be more expensive than the earlier of course.
The Atom-powered machine is a 1.3-kilogram (3 lb) ultra-thin device with a 13.4-inch screen that runs on a 1.33GHz Intel Z530 Atom microprocessor. Other specifications include:
· 160GB Hard drive at 5,400 RPM
· 13.4” LCD
· 16:9 ratio - 1366x768 resolution
· Maximum thickness: 1.98 cm
· Minimum thickness: 6 mm
· Bluetooth, WiFi
· 3 USB ports, Ethernet
· VGA out
· Battery life up to 10 hours
The Pentium powered machine should be more or less of the same specifications, barring the processor and should cost over $1000, whereas the Atom one should come for about $800.
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- Links:
- www.mobilemag.com/content/100/334/C16824/
- www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/156884/msi_to_sell_macbook_airrival_with_intel_pentium_chips.html
- www.examiner.com/r-5378225~MSI_X320___Ultra_Thin_Notebook____800.html
- www.engadget.com/2009/01/12/msi-plans-to-offer-x-slim-laptops-with-pentium-processors/
- www.itpro.co.uk/609496/ces-2009-msi-announces-x-slim-series-laptops
- www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/01/msi_x320_ultra_thin_notebook_800.html
- www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2009/1/MSI-x320.jpg
- www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/01/msi-x-slim-320-rm.jpg
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