MSI Wind12 U230 Netbook Finally Released

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Although MSI doesn’t have any shortage of netbook offerings, we were starting to get a bit worried about the company’s missing Wind12 U230 netbook which was announced back in November and never released. Why get worried over a netbook? The Wind12 U230 is going to have a touch more powerful processor and a slightly bigger screen that the usual netbook fare.

The Wind12 U230 is shipping with either your choice of the AMD Neo MV-40 processor (AMD’s equivalent of Intel’s Atom processor) or a more powerful AMD Athlon X2 L335 processor. As mentioned, the screen is a touch bigger than the regular netbook as it measures in at 12.1-inches, and will have a max resolution of 1366×768. It will come with 2GB of DDR2 RAM and Windows 7 Home Premium.

Graphics are being powered by an ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics card. For hard storage, it’ll come with either a 250GB or 320GB hard drive. It will feature HDMI-out. The increased screensize has another benefit to it, it features a larger keyboard which MSI is calling “EDS-style”. The tiny keyboards on netbooks can be troublesome, so it’s nice to see it have a larger one.

As you can imagine, it’s a bit more expensive than the usual netbook with an MSRP of $429. It appears to be a solid netbook that’s venturing into the ultra-portable notebook market, but that low price is decent.

If interested, the MSI Wind12 U230 netbook is now shipping from Newegg.com