MSI has big plans for the netbook business especially considering that Windows 7 is soon going to be available worldwide. The company plans to launch what looks to be a totally hot netbook next year. The U150 will use Intel’s Pine Trail chipset and will offer you a resistive touchscreen. We don’t have all the features just yet but the U150 already looks promising. We’ll be waiting for CES 2010 to see Intel’s Pine Trail chipset at work and we’re counting on more netbook makers to start planning for this new generation of touch-friendly netbooks which will be running Windows 7.

via Engadget

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MSI will be unveiling a new netbook soon and it is called the MSI Wind U150 Notebook. What makes it so special? The new MSI Wind U150 netbook will make use of touchscreen technology as well as the new Pine Trail Atom platform. The new MSI netbook is expected to be unveiled at the CES.

MSI is hoping to be the first company to land the Pine Trail Atom since Intel has not officially launched the latest Atom processor in the market. The Pine Trail Atom seems to be one of the marquee features of this latest MSI Wind netbook since it reportedly shows improved graphic performance and improved power consumption.

And the other marquee feature is the touchscreen, 10-inch convertible U150 with Windows 7. But before all that happens, MSI will be unveiling the 12” Wind U210 which makes use of the AMD platform. It will be available in two variants: one with Windows XP, 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive retailing for about $379 and another running on Vista Premium for $429.

The U210 will be available in the U.S. this coming September.

(Source) Gizmodo

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Intel is thinking about the future of its netbook/nettop platforms and the famous Atom line has a successor. Pine Trail is the new codename that we’ll have to get used to. The platform will use the Pineview processor which also incorporates the memory controller and the GPU. That translates into a lower power consumption which might result in an even more efficient netbook. The Pine Trail platform will only be available in the last quarter of the year so we have a long wait ahead.

via arstechnica

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