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ECS G10IL and MSI Wind PC to compete with Asus Eee PC

You know a product is hot when other manufacturers start to make competing versions of it. The Asus Eee PC is one of them, so it’s not a wonder why ECS and MSI are touting their own cheap ultra-portables.

First up is the ECS G10IL — this 11-inch (diagonal) baby from ECS is strategically priced at around $500 so it’s more like taking cue from the 9-inch Eee PC crowd.

ECS G10IL

Comes with HSDPA (nice!), and the usual – 3 USB ports, VGA, LAN, modem, webcam but no optical drive. Other specs are not yet clear and unsure if it will come with the usual HDD or smaller SSD.

The other one is the MSI Wind PC. It will come in 8 and 10 inch form factor and buyers will have the option for a regular HDD or the more pricey SSD. It will run the new Intel Atom CPU with a default 1 GB of RAM and a 6-cell battery that could last 6 to 7 hours. It’s a little pricey though as starting cost is around $500 and higher.

MSI Wind PC

Both models are looking to compete with the recently announced 9-inch Asus PC Eee and will have either Linux or Windows OSes.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

13 Responses

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  2. Avatar for jomar jomar says:

    I kinda figured that asus wanted us to call it the ASUS Ease. What do you think?

    Rebus-style.

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  3. Avatar for vance vance says:

    Additionally, MSI Wind said that will have a higher resoultint than asus eee, I think 1024x 768?!? and from what I read its still in prototype version.. So will have to wait and see

  4. Avatar for Maruel Maruel says:

    Fujitsu Breath?
    Toshiba Kamikaze?
    Neo Gust?
    Blue Puff?

    Ano pa ba? Haha!:D Natuwa kasi ako sa comment nina minor at Joemelle.

  5. Avatar for Joemelle Joemelle says:

    Acer Breeze. hehe.

  6. Avatar for minor minor says:

    we have AIR we have WIND, whats next? GAS? lol

  7. Avatar for jhay jhay says:

    Yup, I was a bit confused at first. :P

  8. Avatar for Dusty Dusty says:

    I think it should be MSI Wind PC .. not ASUS ;)

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