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MSI Wind 10-Inch Netbook

The MSI wind is Leo's most recent foray into the netbook arena.

While Leo plans on dual booting Apple's OSX on his new Wind, and then maybe dual booting with Windows 7, it comes with full Windows XP from the factory. No strange Linux distro here. It features an energy efficient Atom processor along with a 6 cell lithium ion battery, which should it exceptional battery life. The perfectly sized 10 inch screen form factor allows users to easily touch type the keyboard even if they may have had trouble with past smaller netbook computers. The hard drive is a traditional platter based magnetic hard drive, giving a generous 160 gigabytes of space, where many other netbooks only have very small solid state drives.

Looking to built a Hackintosh netbook? This is the unit for you. The MSI Wind is frequently used in the Hackintosh community, and as such there is a great deal of knowledge and help available on the internet on how to perform the conversion.

amazon.com reviewers have the Wind 4.5 out of 5

newegg.com reviewers gave it a full 5 out of 5 eggs

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