MSI Wind

[doody_]

By the way, if anyone is interested, there is an IRC channel for the MSI Wind.

irc://irc.freenode.net/msiwind

Looking for more people to fill it up - it's rather empty now .

 

[doody_]

Today's random bit of information: battery life on the 6-cell battery.

Here is a short "log" of what I did on the 6-cell battery. Since all the benchmarks were done, there was nothing else left to do except try to drain down the battery.

I adopted a simple method to simulate web browsing, using Auto URL Refresher. You can download the software from this link: http://www.download.com/Auto-URL-Refresher/3000-2381_4-10297798.html

Same testing conditions as for the 3-cell: 50% brightness, Wifi switched on, Bluetooth switched off, and speakers on at full volume.

Start time: 9.37PM

Windows XP was reporting battery life at 100%, with 6:23 left. That's a pretty good initial report, we'll see how it goes later on.

For the first part I was doing general web surfing using Wireless@SG. This was when the earlier photos comparing the Eee PC and the MSI Wind were taken.

At 10.27PM I packed up and left for home, cos the shopping mall was closing for the day. At this point, Windows reports 84% of battery charge left and 5:00 remaining.

Back home, I switched on the MSI Wind at 10.56PM. Before starting the "test", I checked the battery status again: 83% and 4:54 remaining.

I connected to my AP and started the auto URL refresher. I chose 5 different sites randomly off the top of my head: Google, Hardwarezone, VR-Zone, MSN and Youtube. They were set to refresh between 10 and 30 seconds, as I estimated that to be roughly around the time taken to browse between webpages.

With that, I started it up and left it to work. Screensaver and all power-saving features were disabled throughout this test.

At 1.28AM, the battery was at 31% and 1:42 remaining.

At 2.37AM, the battery was at 8% and 0:21 remaining.

At this point, I switched it off.

End time: 2.37AM

Total run time: 4 hours and 31 minutes

I don't know about you, but I know what I want for my MSI Wind .

Afterthoughts: Browser caching might have played a part in influencing this simulation, however I believe it would be quite insignificant to the final result. If you wish to, subtract 31 minutes from the end result .

 

[idiort]

thx for the hard work man... i think its pretty short life but if get 6 cell,not too bad...

 

[boyinhersense]

How is the size of the keyboard for Wind? Is it full-size like the HP? I'm leaning towards the 2133 even though I think EEE will be better value for money. Being able to type comfortably is important to me...

 

[denilson]

quite big, comfortable to type on

 

[doody_]

How is the size of the keyboard for Wind? Is it full-size like the HP? I'm leaning towards the 2133 even though I think EEE will be better value for money. Being able to type comfortably is important to me...

It's even bigger than the HP Mininote's keyboard .

 

[bakasa2002]

wondering when will it be released? are we going to see it during the PC show? any updates fr corbell?

 

[samuelchan13]

anyone has any idea about the pricing?

 

[idiort]

829 retail with 3 cell batt

 

[doody_]

Thank god for a thread that's still sane .

 

[idiort]

lol.. hahaha.. on a side note,tat dell looks cute... lol

 

[SOLL_P]

i Would like to know can i do programming on the Wind?

Mat Lab?

 

[NSW]

i Would like to know can i do programming on the Wind?

Mat Lab?

eh? what are your concerns?

coz i saw others running linux matlab in the eee 7" even...

shudn't be a problem on the wind?

 

[SOLL_P]

Since i am going to use it in school.

Maybe some C++ and matlab programming. Using GIMP and photo shop might be a plus?

Basically all the stuff that helps you do your FYP.

 

[doody_]

lol.. hahaha.. on a side note,tat dell looks cute... lol

It also doesn't have function keys... lol .

 

[doody_]

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/laptops/0,39029450,49297128-1,00.htm

Exclusive pictures of the MSI Wind... seems that it can be overclocked by 20%. It caused a BSOD on my sample, though.

 

[1 Ghz]

http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20080528PD205.html

Seems the price of the Wind has increased by quite a bit.

 

[bakasa2002]

wow, it seems like launching in TW only in july or aug, guess we won't be able to see it during the ITshow in June ...

 

[NSW]

Since i am going to use it in school.

Maybe some C++ and matlab programming. Using GIMP and photo shop might be a plus?

Basically all the stuff that helps you do your FYP.

hmz should not be a problem

the only restrctions i see might be speed and harddisk space coz my matlab installation takes up ... 3.59 gb.

just that i wunt recommend such mobile PCs to be yr main work horse. strains the eyes and fingers. not to mention harddisk is exposed to more transport aka wear/tear damage.

in a university setting it might be better to use it as paper saving lecture companion, then return to a main wokrhouse for all the data. you won't want your precious FYP stuff dying along with the harddisk etc...

 

[frozentrace]

hey did u guys see the dissection and power consumption test done by vr-zone?
click here

"From our tests, the Wind will last an approximate 1 hour 15 minutes at constant full load an and approximate 2 hours and 15 minutes under normal usage conditions."