A few months ago we featured the MSI Wind U230 notebook sporting AMD based processors instead of the ever popular Intel Atom series. The notebook has great features but we felt there’s still enough room for improvement. Thus, we doubt that the Wind U2xx series will fade soon. Our hunch was proven right when an alleged MSI Wind U250 notebook with a snippet of its specifications was seen at Energy Star’s website! It’s kinda weird but true.
Energy Star is an environment standard and its website features electronic gadgets which delivers energy efficiency. It became an international standard of excellence for energy efficient consumer products. Several gadget manufacturer nowadays are trying to do R&D in order to lower power consumption that’s why we see CULV, ULV and more compact processors that consumes less power than its predecessors. Desktop PCs nowadays consumes only 25% of compare to what computers needed a decade ago.
We were surprised however, when we didn’t see any news release of the new Wind notebook from MSI’s website. The limited specs you can see on Energy Solution is attached below:
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The specifications list suggests that the new MSI Wind laptop is a convertible type that will use Windows 7 Operating System. No idea though which version it will use. A dual core processor will be used with 1.3GHz speed/core. Some tech blogs and sites “speculates” that the new Wind convertible will sport AMD Athon II Neo K235 / AMD Geneva K325 processor. We haven’t formally heard about this new notebook processors from AMD so it is quite difficult to jump into conclusion that that is the real thing.
The MSI Wind U230 utilized both AMD neo MV-40 and Athlon X2 L335. We felt that U250 would probably be using the same set of processors and take advantage of AMD’s neo-based design processors which is smaller and more compact. On the contrary, the list suggests that U250 is using only around 12W of power which is lower than AMD neo-based processor’s 15W TDP rating. So we’re guessing that it might jump to Intel Atom or similar ULV processor.
In addition, it will have 4GB of RAM, 512 MB of graphic card and 320 GB of HDD space. The notebook is available as of March 15, 2010 for $600 USD. Although, it is really unusual since no catchy advertisements nor any red carpet announcements was heard from MSI headquarters about the release of this laptop. We’re thinking maybe it’s in the final development stage but isn’t due anytime soon. We’ll try to find out if it ever bobs its head out.
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