MSI Wind U210 notebook now available in the US

MSI has started shipping Wind U210 netbook and is already available with the few online retailers including Amazon and NewEgg. Unsurprisingly, it runs on Windows Vista Home Premium. Being sold at price of $430, we think that it is a pretty good deal for such powerful specs. It is available in black and white color. In case you have forgotten the specs, here they are:

• AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 @ 1.6GHz clock speed
• 12.1-inch 1366 x 768 display
• AMD Radeon X1250 graphic chipset
• 250GB HDD, 2GB RAM
• HDMI port
• card reader (4-in-one)
• Wi-Fi (b/g/n)
• 6-cell (5200mAh) battery

Click on read more read MSI U120 press release too!

GALORE of ASUS CULV-based notebooks coming at the end of the year

‘Asus will ship between 11 and 13 million notebooks in 2009 and up to one million of them will be CULV-based ultraportables’, says CEO Jerry Shen

Total notebooks sales by ASUS are expected to jump 25 percent every year, though its market share has decreased. ASUS is aiming to sell a million ultra portables in just three and a half months. So what Asus wants is that till the end of the year, ultraportables should make up 25 to 30 percent of total Asus notebook shipments.

Due to tough competition and low margins, vendors don’t make much money on netbooks anyway. It is observed that PC makers make as much money on a single notebook as they do on six netbooks! Perhaps that is the reason more and more netbook vendors are now concentrating on ultra portables as they yield higher profit margins

Acer serious about ultraportables – to offer many more models soon – Introduces Acer Aspire 1410

Acer has become pretty serious about ultraportables and is currently offering more models in more shapes and sizes than any other netbook/ultraportable vendor. Most of upcoming models are based on the ULV SU3500 or SU9400 processor. However, its new Aspire 1410 uses SU2300 dual core processor instead of SU3500.

Sadly, the SU2300 uses just 1MB of cache, which can slow the things down. UPDATE: The Acer 1410 comes with SU3500. A price of just €449 is marked for an Aspire 1410 that comes with an Intel SU2300 ULV processor, 2GB RAM and a 250GB hard drive. It even incorporates an HDMI port, an 11.6-inch 1366×768 screen and optional UMTS support.

We anticipate that the Aspire 1410 to start shipping in the month of September this year.