MSI will soon release a special version of its MSI Wind U135DX netbook which comes with Swarovski crystals located on the cover of the display screen. Besides that small luxury detail of crystals, all the other features remain the same as the original Wind U135DX, which means it has an Intel Atom N455 processor, an [...]

How long can you operate on your average netbook battery? The previous record for a MSI Wind was 13 hours out of a 6-cell battery. I say previous since the absolutely new record is 25 hours. How was that pulled off? Well a 9-cell battery is responsible for all that and you can check it [...]

Gizmodo reports that a 9-cell, 7800mAh battery for the MSI Wind is now available for preorder from a third-party vendor, if that doesn’t disturb you a single bit. It is priced at $180, offering a rather nice upgrade to the battery life – roughly six hours of run time according to the site’s calculations. …