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MSI Puts NVIDIA's GeForce 9800M in New Gaming Laptop

Micro Star International has just added a new portable computer system to its Gaming Notebook series, with the official launch of the new GT627, a 15.4-inch notebook ready to provide users with the graphics power of NVIDIA's GeForce 9800M GS video card. Thanks to the integration of the powerful NVIDIA GPU, the n...

27 January 2009
02:51 GMT

MSI Officially Intros the New WindBox, Ready to Be Attached to Your LCD

MSI has officially introduced today its new WindBox, a computer system designed to take advantage of Intel's highly-successful Atom platform and provide users with a small form factor PC that can easily be attached to an LCD screen, consequently reducing the space required by the PC. The new system has been expe...

23 January 2009
05:59 GMT

MSI Adds Gaming-Ready Mobos for AMD Phenom II CPUs

MSI, one of the world's leading manufacturers of computer motherboards, announced today two new mobos designed to provide gaming enthusiasts with the necessary power and features required by today's PC gaming applications. The company's new motherboards have been specifically designed to take advantage...

22 January 2009
06:18 GMT

MSI Stuffs Dual-Core Atom in New Wind NetTop D130

MSI has just updated its Wind family with the addition of a new desktop computer system that gets powered by Intel's dual-core Atom 330 processor. Dubbed Wind NetTop D130, the new system comes as the company's first dual-core-equipped mini PC, capable of offering performance for mainstream users inside a sm...

15 January 2009
08:28 GMT

MSI Plans Pentium Chips for X-Slim Laptops to Better Challenge MacBook Air

MSI is expected to further expand its lineup of X-Slim portable computer systems with the addition of a new Pentium-powered model that will allow the motherboard maker to better compete with Apple's ultra-thin MacBook Air. The company is said to be developing an upgraded version of the X320 netbook, which has be...

15 January 2009
03:52 GMT

MSI Aims Guns at Apple, Unveils the X320 MacBook Air Competitor

With the International Consumer Electronics Show just hours away from its debut, Taiwan's Micro Star International, the creator of the Wind netbook, has come out with a surprisingly interesting new product. The PC maker has just showcased its new X320 notebook, an ultrathin, ultraportable computer system that mi...

7 January 2009
04:11 GMT

MSI Officially Intros the U115 Hybrid Netbook

MSI officially introduced today the new U115 Hybrid netbook, coming to expand the manufacturer's range of small-sized, low-power computer systems. The new product comes to provide the company's customers with an alternative netbook system that brings to light new features, previously unavailable in any of t...

29 December 2008
09:35 GMT

Photos and Specs on MSI Wind NetBOX Surface

Micro Star International is reported to plan a demonstration of its upcoming Wind NetBOX at CES in January 2009. According to the news on the web, the machine will come as a choice over the well known ASUS Eee Box series and, even if it was initially reported to be named Windbox, we learn that the Wind NetBOX is the ...

15 December 2008
04:45 GMT

MSI to Showcase Touchscreen Wind at CES

Micro Star International is expected to showcase a series of its latest portable computer systems at next year's Computer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The company is also anticipated to unveil some new products as part of its portable PC system lineup, at least one of which will be its first touchscree...

12 December 2008
09:38 GMT

MSI Unveils New 15.4-Inch Portable PC

Micro Star International has decided that its current range of portable computer systems doesn't fully reflect the company's capability of providing its customers with a wide range of choices in terms of high-quality notebook computers. Consequently, it has now introduced the VR603, a new 15.4-inch portable...

12 December 2008
06:58 GMT

New Wind U110 and U115 Notebooks to Be Showcased at CES

According to recent details in the industry, Micro Star International plans to unveil the new 10.2-inch Wind U110 and U115 portable computer systems at next year's Consumer Electronics Show in Los Angeles. The Taiwanese manufacturer is expected to showcase the new systems, built on Intel's Menlow platform,...

4 December 2008
09:01 GMT

MSI Unveils G45-Equipped mATX Mobo

Micro Star International has introduced today its first micro ATX motherboard based on Intel's G45 chipset that comes to provide users with the company's DrMOS technology. According to the company, this technology is ideal for processor power supply application, providing three major features, including Gre...

4 December 2008
04:42 GMT

Nettops Falling in Favor of All-In-One PCs

The netbook market has been greatly influenced by the Intel Atom processor, which stimulated demand in the segment, yet the nettops powered by the same chip have not seen a similar success among users. Motherboard makers showed more interest in the all-in-one PC segment as an alternative way to boost desktop demand. ...

2 December 2008
04:45 GMT

MSI Announces the Wind U110 and U115 for 2009

After the highly anticipated Wind 2, set to debut as the Wind U120, has recently held all the headlines, it seems that Micro Star International holds yet another ace up its sleeve. The Taiwanese manufacturer is now expected to introduce two more models, part of the Wind netbook family, which will provide users with a...

1 December 2008
03:12 GMT

MSI Announces the Atom-Powered Windbox

Micro Star International has just announced its new Wind product aimed at competing with ASUS' desktop Eee Box, a nettop designed on the same platform as the highly successful Eee PC low-power, low-cost portable PC. Simply and predictably dubbed MSI Windbox, the new Intel Atom-powered computer system from MSI co...

28 November 2008
09:35 GMT

MSI Wind U120 Unboxing Video Surfaces

Details on MSI's new Wind U120 netbook, the company's second Atom-powered, low-cost portable computer system, have surfaced the Internet quite some time ago, but it is only now that we’re getting the very first unboxing video of the netbook in question. The video has been uploaded on YouTube by ...

26 November 2008
09:00 GMT

Intel Atom Reaches 2.38GHz on Liquid Nitrogen

It appears that almost everybody is talking these days about the overclocking capabilities of Intel's newest Core i7 processors and AMD's upcoming 45nm-based Phenom II X4 CPUs. However, news about an overclocked Intel Atom processor, the CPU that currently powers most of the low-power, low-cost portable com...

25 November 2008
09:33 GMT

MSI Wind U120 Spotted in the Wild

Earlier today we reported on recent details according to which Taiwanese notebook and netbook manufacturer, MSI, has raised its laptop expectations by as much as 1 million units, which the company hopes to ship until the end of the year. The change came just after the company recently announced that its Wind netbook ...

20 November 2008
11:34 GMT

MSI Notebook Shipments to Reach 3 Million This Year

The netbook market is showing clear signs of expanding at a much faster pace than any netbook maker initially predicted. With approximately another 6 weeks to go until the end of the year, some of the early netbook manufacturers are changing their initial predictions regarding the number of shipped netbook units. Tha...

20 November 2008
03:22 GMT

MSI to Unveil Eee Top Competitor with the Wind Neton

One of the first companies to have released a product to compete with ASUS' Eee PC netbook systems was MSI, and it initially went for the 10-inch form factor. The Taiwanese netbook maker is now expected to expand its product lineup with a new system that will most likely go against ASUS' much anticipated Ee...

19 November 2008
09:45 GMT

MSI Officially Unveils the X58 Eclipse Series

MSI, one of the world's leading motherboard manufacturers, announced yesterday the release of its new series of products, Eclipse. The fresh Eclipse motherboard series is based on the latest chipset Intel X58 and comes with support for the next-generation Intel Core i7 processors with LGA1366-pin design, ultra-h...

19 November 2008
03:05 GMT

Notebook Market Growth, Reason for Mainboard Orders Declining

The portable computer system market has grown impressively over the last few years and this year, notebooks, along with netbooks, have managed to outsell desktop computer systems for the first time in history. This has been good for the laptop makers who have seen positive Q3 financial results. However, there's ...

13 November 2008
11:43 GMT

MSI Also Unveils Its AM3-Supporting Motherboards

Following ASUS’ announcement yesterday, fellow Taiwanese competitor, Micro Star International also announced its AM3-ready motherboards. These motherboards are already available on the market, and some users might have taken advantage of their features and specifications already, but by using AMD's current...

13 November 2008
06:46 GMT

MSI Brings Color and Style with New Ultra-Portable Notebooks

Taiwanese manufacturer MSI has decided it was high time for a change on the scene, namely for the introduction of products that aren't part of the company's range of Wind netbooks, or Intel X58-based platforms. This is where the new VR220 YA Edition notebook systems come into place, delivering a bright-colo...

10 November 2008
10:11 GMT

MSI X58 ‘Uber Overclocker’ Gets Official Name

This probably doesn’t come as much of a surprise to many technology enthusiasts out there, but almost every motherboard maker has already finished at least one version of their upcoming X58-enabled Core i7-ready desktop platforms. Still, from time to time, it is nice to see what products we should be expecting ...

6 November 2008
10:08 GMT

MSI Intros GeForce 9500M GS-Equipped Entertainment Notebook

MSI might not be the biggest name on the notebook market, but it sure does try to deliver some of the latest technologies in computing hardware by releasing new and higher-performance systems. The most recent product in the Taiwanese company's range of 16-inch notebooks comes in the form of a Centrino 2-powered ...

5 November 2008
05:30 GMT

9-Cell Battery for MSI Wind Found on eBay

Some time ago, rumors of a 9-cell battery specifically designed to power MSI's Wind netbook surfaced on the Internet. It now appears that such a battery option is available from third-party sellers on eBay, and MSI Wind users have already started to upgrade the battery of their netbook. Moreover, it looks l...

3 November 2008
08:31 GMT

MSI Wind Running Windows 7 Spotted in the Wild

We already know that netbooks such as ASUS' Eee PC, Acer's Aspire One and MSI's Wind can handle all the major operating systems out there, namely Linux, Windows XP and Vista and, with some modifications, even Apple's OS X. However, talking about Windows 7, an operating system that is pretty much ...

31 October 2008
05:50 GMT

MSI Offers CUDA-Enabled TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress with Its GeForce GPUs

Micro Star International announced that, starting with November 2008, all its series of GeForce 8 and GeForce 9 graphic cards would be bundled with a trial version of the new TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress Video Encoder with NVIDIA CUDA technology. The bundled software will be a special 30-day/non-limited transcoding trial versi...

31 October 2008
04:33 GMT

MSI Details BIOS Features for X58 and P45 Mobos

Most computer enthusiasts out there probably already know what to expect from the upcoming next-generation Intel desktop platform. That is pretty much due to all the recently leaked details that have surfaced on the Internet, including pictures from motherboard makers. These, in turn, are seemingly very confident in ...

30 October 2008
06:05 GMT

MSI Unleashes New Intel and AMD-Powered Gaming Laptops

Some of the most recent notebooks released by Taiwan-based MSI have been powered by AMD's mobile platform and it appears that the company is quite fond of this technology, which has now been incorporated in yet another portable system that has been designed for gaming.In addition, to complete its range of high-e...

29 October 2008
10:48 GMT

MSI Wind to Feature Overclocking Capabilities

MSI Wind owners have a reason to cheer, as the company announced the release of an updated BIOS for this mobile machine, one that enables users to operate some changes in their processor's speed. To put it simple, users are able to overclock their mobile machine nice and easy, which is something we do not see ev...

28 October 2008
05:09 GMT

MSI Click BIOS Gets the Hands-On Treatment

Earlier this year, Taiwanese motherboard maker MSI unveiled three new motherboards that were build using Intel's P45 chipset and that featured the unique Click BIOS feature, which was expected to change the way users would interact with the system's BIOS (Basic Input/Output System). The new feature was bas...

28 October 2008
02:53 GMT

Details on MSI Eclipse SLI X58 Mobo Surface

Micro Star International has already been reported to prepare an X58 motherboard, introduced by the maker to demonstrate a second generation DrMOS energy-saving feature. More details on the upcoming Eclipse SLI X58 board have surfaced the Web on the Taiwanese forum Xfastest, which somehow managed to get a full media ...

27 October 2008
23:44 GMT

MSI Unveils Four Radeon HD 4830 Graphics Cards

Advanced Micro Devices' latest graphics card, the Radeon HD 4830, was officially introduced just yesterday, and the vendors have already started to unveil new boards based on this solution. Micro-Star International is one of these makers, and it announced not one or two such new graphics solutions, but four of t...

24 October 2008
15:41 GMT

MSI Raises Netbook Shipment Expectations

Earlier this year, both ASUS and MSI, two of the largest manufacturers of netbook systems, publicly announced their expectations regarding the shipments of their small-sized, low-power portable systems. ASUS' CEO, Jerry Shen, said that his company expected to ship about 5 million units of Eee PC netbook sys...

24 October 2008
06:59 GMT

MSI Also Shows Its Core i7-Supporting Motherboard

It appears that motherboard makers are so anxious to unveil their own X58-based motherboards – even before Intel's official introduction – that some of them have already announced the upcoming products. We have already seen ASUS rushing to announce the new Rampage II Extreme board two days ago, and i...

23 October 2008
06:17 GMT

MSI Brings Style to New Centrino 2 PX600 Laptop

Just when you thought your portable computer system was cool, fashionable and, at the same time, offering you the level of computing performance you require, MSI goes and launches something like this, the new PX600 Prestige Collection. You will probably ask yourself what is so special about the new portable PC from M...

22 October 2008
06:08 GMT

MSI Planning November Launch for Wind U120

Earlier this month, Andy Tung, MSI’s US Director of Sales, revealed, in an interview with the guys from LaptopMag, that the company was set to release a new version of its Wind netbook before the end of this year. The MSI Wind 2, or MSI Wind U120, has already surfaced on the Internet in pretty pixels, while tec...

20 October 2008
10:18 GMT

Radeon HD 4830 Almost Here, Pictures Unveiled

It seems that only next week we will be able to get our hands on ATI's new graphics card, the Radeon HD 4830. According to the latest news on the web, the card is almost ready and will be heading to the market shortly. The Radeon HD 4830 will come as a direct competitor to Geforce 9800GT-based products, and it i...

18 October 2008
05:10 GMT

MSI Unveils 16-Inch VR630 Notebook

Perhaps Apple likes to think that launching its latest portable MacBook computer systems will make every PC user out there consider buying a Mac instead of a PC. However, portable PCs hold the majority of the market, which is why we’re constantly seeing a fair number of systems vendors announcing the latest add...

17 October 2008
11:33 GMT

MSI Shows Off New PX211 Business Laptop

In a move that could easily make anyone assume that all portable systems vendors have come to a mutual agreement, it seems that several of them believe this is just the right time to release new notebook models. After seeing Apple and Toshiba unveiling the latest additions to their portable computer systems lineup, T...

15 October 2008
08:46 GMT

First Pictures of MSI's Wind 2 Netbook Surface

Early this week, we told you about a new Wind netbook that the Taiwanese manufacturer was planning to release later this year. As mentioned in our previous article, the upcoming netbook has been designed to meet the requirements of business users, which is why it will bring forth a more professional design, differen...

9 October 2008
05:58 GMT

MSI Intros Bravo EX620 Notebook with Entertainment in Mind

While fellow Taiwanese competitor ASUSTek is busy promoting its latest Eee PC netbook, the stylish and good-looking S101, Micro-Star International has just updated its notebook offering with a new portable computer system designed with entertainment in mind. The new Centrino2-enabled Bravo EX620 notebook comes with C...

8 October 2008
09:17 GMT

MSI Wind 2 Comes Before the End of the Year

Certainly, MSI has become an important player in the portable computer systems market with the launch of its 10-inch netbook, the Wind. Back when it was released, this small-sized, ultra-portable system was thought to become one of the major competitors to ASUS' extensive lineup of Eee PCs. However, due to...

6 October 2008
05:38 GMT

MacBook Mini Looks Like a Contender to the 'Brick' Title

Tired of Brick rumors? We didn't think so. Therefore, here's what we found (click picture to enlarge). The first thing you need to know about this clean looking MacBook mini is that it packs a 1.6GHz Atom processor, 1GB or memory, 80GB storage, and runs Mac OS X 10.5.2 Leopoard like a charm.The other thing ...

3 October 2008
22:01 GMT

MSI Wind to Pack 9-Cell Battery

One of the main issues with all the netbooks currently available on the market is that, despite having been designed for portability, they are not able to deliver enough battery life for users to fully enjoy the benefits of having a netbook. This is all the more true in the case of a 3-cell or a 4-cell battery, which...

3 October 2008
05:16 GMT

MSI Wind Has 23 Clones Worldwide

Despite the fact that it might not be the best selling netbook on the market, MSI's Wind could literally win a yet-to-be invented award, for the “The netbook with the most number of clones” category. As it turns out, the small-sized Wind is actually available worldwide in 23 differently branded vers...

1 October 2008
05:35 GMT

MSI Wind Is Also Good with Vista

We have already seen, earlier this year, how MSI's bet on the netbook market, the Wind, can boot into an OS X operating system. Even back then, the MSI Wind wasn't the first netbook to be tested running on Apple's Mac-only OS X, as the Acer Aspire One was probably the first ever to be spotted on the In...

30 September 2008
04:46 GMT

MSI Intros the Atom N270-Based IM-945GSE Mobo

Micro-Star International, one of the leading motherboard makers and providers of high quality and reliable products worldwide, has recently announced the introduction of IM-945GSE, an Ultra Low Power Platform designed specifically for Intel Atom Processor N270. As expected, the company used state of the art technolog...

26 September 2008
12:08 GMT


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