![]() I was very disappointed to find that a battery that is advertised to last 3 hours only lasted barely over 83% of that time at idle. ![]() I have to mention the battery life on this MSI Wind U100 netbook. Personally, I am used to using the side or fleshy part of my thumb, so this is something to become accustomed to. The the left and right click buttons are also small enough that you almost need to use the tip of your thumb to click them. Granted, it is centered under the space bar, but it can be awkward for righties like me. ![]() The touchpad is barely over half the width that I would like to see on a netbook, and it is off center to the left. Another issue I have with the layout is the size of the touchpad and the left and right click buttons at the bottom. On most notebooks and netbooks that I have used, the left “control” key is on the bottom left corner, and on the Wind U100, the “function” key resides there instead, making it difficult to go from typing on one computer to typing on this netbook. While the keyboard does cover the entire width of the netbook, the keys are smaller than usual and awkwardly spaced. When it comes to usability, I feel the MSI Wind U100 has a number of issues. MSI made an error internally and failed to send us the right hard drive with this netbook. ![]() I should mention that the future generation Wind netbooks have a much larger hard drive, and their HD Tune scores should be competitive with other netbooks. It never outshined another netbook, but nor did it fall behind in anything except for the slower transfer rates in HD Tune. When it comes to benchmarks, the MSI Wind U100 really stayed on par with the other netbooks we tested. It is also compact, light-weight and perfect for traveling. It includes the typical Intel Atom N270 processor, 1 GB DDR2 RAM, Windows XP, a basic video card and low power consumption. ![]()
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