Micro-Star Moves into Low Price PCs

Micro-Star International (MSI) has recently followed ASUS, ACER and HP into the low price PC market. MSI has recently launched the Wind "netbook", another name for the low price PC. The Wind PC has a nice review on Geek.com. Geek.com writes:

MSI’s Wind is a 10-inch netbook, designed to compete with the Asus Eee PC 901/1000/1000h as well as any number of similar products that are now available. You might not be familiar with Micro-Star International but they are turning a lot of heads with the Wind, not just for its reasonable price but also a smart design and its advantages over the rest of the field.

The Wind is another white netbook that is built on a small, plastic-y platform, but it differentiates itself with a 10-inch display and an 80GB hard drive. It also bucks the original netbook trends by arriving with Windows XP as opposed to a Linux distribution (a SuSE version will be available in the future). None of these features are completely unique to the Wind though, so the device is competing with its overall quality and design as opposed to any specific killer feature. The Wind uses Intel’s Atom processor as opposed to a Celeron, like the Eee PC 701/900, or a processor from VIA, as seen on HP’s 2133. This means reasonable power and an extended battery life over more power demanding processors.

Personally I must confess I do like the 80GB hard drive. The 20GB Linux hard drive on the Eee PC does seem a bit small considering some of that space is used by the operating system (OS). The Wind seems to be a tantalizing option and something worth looking at if you are in the market for a low price PC i.e. netbook.

Staying with MSI, Digitimes has also commented MSI will be producing low cost PCs for the Korean giant LG Electronics. Digitimes writes:

Korea-based LG Electronics is planning to launch its Atom-based netbook in October this year and since most of the company's notebooks were manufactured by Micro-Star International (MSI), the netbook is also expected to be manufactured by the Taiwan maker, according to sources.

The low price PC market sector is becoming crowded fast. Although ASUS will continue to dominate the sector for the time being, they will need to innovate to stay ahead. All this competition is indeed good for the consumer!

Geek.com: Review: MSI Wind Notebook
Digitimes: MSI has chance to make netbook for LG