Dan Nystedt of IDG News Services shares his hands-on experience with the MSI Wind at MSI’s corporate headquarters in Taipei. In his limited time with the device, he liked the keyboard (although “still not like a normal laptop PC”) and thought “it performed fairly well”.

I was able to play music while surfing the Net, and open and work on a text document. It’s not a machine aimed at video editing, so I didn’t bother trying. The device found MSI’s wireless network quickly and logged on, but I couldn’t do much downloading because MSI blocks music, video and other Web sites, such as YouTube, to keep workers focused.

It’s good to hear that MSI is a focused company. He plans on reviewing many netbooks in the upcoming weeks so hopefully he can provide more insight for comparison between the rapidly increasing number of models.

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