Friday, March 13th, 2009...12:51 pm
MSI Wind U115 gets 15 hours of battery life, hybrid disk drive, and is taken apart.
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MSI Wind U115 Taken Apart
The MSI Wind U115 has a few things that set it apart from other netbooks. First, it uses the Intel Atom Z530 CPU, which is more energy efficient than the Intel Atom N270 chip found in most netbooks. We’re not sure if it’s the new chipset, or the hybrid disk drive, but tests done by the folks at Eee-PC.de, the laptop ranged from 5.5 hours to 15 hours of battery life, based on level of usage. The hybrid storage system, allows the laptop to run entirely off of its 8GB of SSD memory, with the 160GB hard drive spun down to save power.
Click here to see the MSI wind stripped down to all it parts, by Nvision.
5 Comments
March 13th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Holy cow, 15 hours of battery life would be awesome. Put me down for one.
March 17th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
What’s the point of an ssd and a spinning HD? Certainly not to save power.
March 17th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
this is my next netbook. Is ram upgradeable on this?
March 17th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
@comicbookguy – yes ram is upgradeable to 2gb via 1 so-dimm
April 6th, 2009 at 3:25 am
this is great! when it will be on sale?
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