14 DAY TRIAL // It would appear that Micro-Star International is not one to stay still and silent when an international expo is going on, having brought a bunch of things to CeBIT, one of which being a new entry-level desktop PC.
It appears that the IT industry is still being rather inert as far as new product announcements go, as even the ongoing trade show doesn't seem to be that filled with new releases.
When CeBIT 2011 kicked off in Hannover, Germany on March 1, consumers and IT players alike would have expected a veritable surge in new announcements, especially knowing how slow things have been going lately.
However, with NVIDIA Intel and Advanced Micro Devices not ready to launch anything particularly revolutionary, other companies didn't have much to work with.
As such, the number of customized hardware components and systems on show was quite a bit lower than it would otherwise have been.
Still, this doesn't mean the expo was empty either, and MSI exhibition included several things, such as a certain nettop based on AMD's Brazos platform.
It is dubbed Wind Box DC100 and has, as central piece, the E-350 APU (accelerated processing unit), featuring two bobcat x86 cores clocked at 1.6 GHz and a Radeon HD 6310 graphics solution with support for DirectX 11.
The system can be said to qualify as an HTPC and has 2 GB of RAM (random access memory) backing up the aforementioned chip.
Meanwhile, storage space is brought to the mix by a hard disk drive with a capacity of 250 GB, while six USB 2.0 ports and an HDMI output let one connect other storage units or stream multimedia to HDTVs, respectively.
There was, unfortunately, no sort of information on pricing and availability but it shouldn't be long for these details to finally be made public either.