Jason Dunn
12-30-2010, 12:30 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.netbooknews.com/16622/hands-on-msi-windpad-100w-10-windows-7-tablet/' target='_blank'>http://www.netbooknews.com/16622/ha...ndows-7-tablet/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"MSI had a CES preview yesterday in Taipei and we got our hands on the MSI Windpad 100W their 10 inch Windows 7 tablet. Not much has changed with the Windpad since we saw it at Computex in June, the build quality still feels like a prototype and the processor is the Intel Atom Z530, which is old school hardware. MSI claims that this is the highest they could go with out installing a fan. True, but i'm not sure who would want to buy it when its thick and outdated."</em></p><p><object width="600" height="360" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/s5vJCcpo8ks&feature=player_embedded&ap=%26fmt=18" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/s5vJCcpo8ks&feature=player_embedded&ap=%26fmt=18" /></object></p><p>MSI, like a lot of other laptop/netbook vendors are trying to jump onto the tablet/slate bandwagon - but they're doing it in what seems to be a slapdash fashion, cramming netbook hardware into a slate form-factor and hoping for the best. That's not going to stand up to the competition that's out there today, let alone what's coming in 2011.</p>