MSI should be praised for the idea of a hybrid netbook and the battery life results demonstrate that this part of the U115 is a success. However, despite a decent feature set, £450 is far too much to ask for an otherwise uninspiring netbook.Read full review
Looks like manufacturers have forgotten what a netbook was supposed to be.
So this a $700 netbook? What the hell happened to the $300 netbook?
If I wanted a bit more power I'd opt for a proper thin and light like this one http://u.nu/5ud7
And I don't get the argument that it's smaller and lighter so you have to pay more for it. Absolute nonsense in my book! Like a 4 pound notebook is significantly harder on the back than a 3 pound netbook.
Assuming it's the same touchpad as on the bog standard Wind netbooks you can get a replacement Windows driver that brings scroll functionality and other settings. See msiwind.net. The touchpad is still not brilliant though.
Netbooks are getting far too expensive. Surely the entire purpose of them being produced in the first place was to offer low-cost, portable systems that were smaller, slower and cheaper than normal notebooks? Instead, it seems like they're just getting bigger, more expensive and slightly better-specced, whilst becoming essentially the same price as a full-size notebook that full-size performance and features.
It's good that Dell have realised that there is a market for the ~£200 netbook by releasing the Mini 10v, but it seems every other manufacturer is just driving up the cost by making them better (and consequentially, more expensive) than they actually need to be.
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@TheVoice: You're quite right, though ironically I think some this has been in reaction to consumers. After all, we regularly see people commenting that they want a netbook with HD video, or an HD screen and so on and so forth, but the same people will probably complain when the price is suddenly much higher. It's a vicious circle all this.
@Andy: It shouldn't be the same people complaining both ways. That would be ridiculous. I'm on record as having said I'd happily pay £500-600 for a laptop (call it whatever you want) in the approx 10" form factor with enough power to play Flash video properly, with a solid keyboard and which doesn't look like a piece of plastic junk.
There should still be a place for budget netbooks, but I don't understand why so many people are complaining about the existence of better specified, higher priced netbooks. Surely there's a place for products at both ends of the market.
And to pre-empt the retort that for £500-600 I could get a proper 15" notebook, I don't want one. Too big, too heavy, too short battery life and so too pointless for me.
The problem is is that it doesn't cost another £150 for an 8gb flash drive I mean an 8gb flash card can be had for under ten pounds so one that's fit for a netbook cannot be more than £50 as standalone manufactures have announced 16gb drives that boast 100mb/s read write speeds that this certainly doesn't have at about £50. Therefore MSI are taking a massive profit from this version.
PS there would not need to be any space issues since touchscreen controllers/usb hubs used in mods take up far less space than this.
PSS Is
1/2gb ram
2ghz processor/ 1.6ghz dual core
32/64gb ssd (above 50mb/s)
ION
touchscreen
good keyboard/track pad
good looks (<3cm) and less than 1.5kg
really too much to ask for by Christmas 09 with windows 7 for £500
@pimlicosound: Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying there shouldn't be higher-end netbooks available (although just how much higher-end they are over the standard ones is debatable), I just think that the manufacturers have lost sight of the purpose of a netbook and have all but abandoned the lower-end of the netbook market.
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