MSI WindPad on Sale: $700
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MSI’s Wind Pad is finally on sale, hoping to have the same success it enjoyed with the MSI Wind netbook, only without the netbook’s low, low price. The Wind Pad will cost $710, which is at the high-end for a 10-inch tablet. But then, it’s not really a tablet in the modern sense. It’s much more like a netbook version of those bulky old tablet PCs we used to know and hate.
The chip is a single-core 1.6GHz Atom Z530 and the OS is Windows 7Home Premium. That right there should tell you all you need to know. You also get 32GB storage (remember that the full Win7 requires 16GB), 2GB RAM, HDMI, ambient light sensor and accelerometer, two cameras and a six-hour battery life. The 800-gram (1.76-pound) tablet is pretty much a netbook without a keyboard. It also uses MSI’s own Touch UI spread over the top of Windows, hopefully making it a little easier to use.
That might sound bad, but it is also a netbook without a keyboard, which should mean opportunities for hacking and installing more finger friendly operating systems. Available now.
WindPad 100W [MSI]
MSI 10-inch WindPad 100 [Simply Electronics]
See Also:
- MSI Wind-Pad, a Featherlight Multitouch Tablet
- WindPad: $500 Windows 7 Tablet Arrives September
- Asus, MSI Tablets Lead the Charge Against the iPad
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