MSI Wind12 U210 vs. HP Mini 311

AFAIK that ATI Radeon is expandable to 700mb accdg to Villman’s specs page. Also the 9-cell battery was just an upgrade promo. Default battery is a 6-cell.

IMO HP wins solely on the bundled optical drive and opting for a Windows XP OS. Wished they buffed their RAM and WiFi specs

hp gets my vote. while I do like the msi wind u100 i owned before, it was simply no comparison to hp’s mini 2140. the build and quality must be taken into consideration. while the specs of the msi wind are nice, the mini 311 has dd3 and can be upgraded to 3gb ram (just add a 2gb ontop of the built in 1gb)

Most importantly, the mini 311 has better chances of being OSXable due to the choices of hardware. Intel + Nvidia.

Neck and neck spec wise but how about performance wise ? The MSI wind has a dual core CPU, how well does it stand against HP Min’s Atom N280 ?

I think i’ll go for HP mini having an optical drive packed with it.

I just wonder though if Wind’s processor is 64 bit capable. Is the 9 cell offer of Wind still available? I think MSI should have offered an option to use an XP OS rather than Vista which is a little unattractive considering the bad reviews for this OS.

MSI Wind U210 Review

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=5302&review=msi+wind+u210

Conclusion

“As one of the largest netbooks, the MSI Wind U210 proved to be a worthy option for people wanting something larger than your average 9-11″ netbook. It offered slightly better CPU performance than Intel Atom systems and Intel CULV systems we have tested. The only area that it lagged behind was in graphics, where the X1270 chipset fell behind when compared to the Intel X4500. Battery life was decent at 4 hours and 19 minutes, but if you are looking for all-day battery life one of the smaller netbooks might be a better option. Overall, for the price and features, the MSI Wind U210 is a worthy competitor to some of the newer Intel CULV based 11.6″ netbooks”.

I quite puzzled with the AMD Athlon 64 X2 Neo specs because I think it should only be AMD Neo since it is only a single core CPU (AND there is no such name in www.amd.com)

Misleading, isn’t it?

Specs-wise (+BT) and RAM/HDD upgradeability (except WIFI-g)…

Neck and neck? DUH! NOT EVEN CLOSE!!!

HP Mini 311 WINS via KO!!!

Yep… AMD Athlon Neo has a DUAL CORE model… my bad!

But still… Intel Atom has HYPER-THREADING!

Everyone seems to be focused on the gfx department and ignoring the CPU department.

How does the Athlon 64 X2 Neo compares to the Atom N280?

I want more comparison before settling down on who’s the best netbook for Year 2009

Athlon 64 X2 Neo vs. Atom N280?
ATI Radeon X1270 vs. nVidia GF 9400M?

About mem, hdd, bt, wifi and others, there are some workarounds like upgrades and such stuffs.

thanks yuga for giving us an option on what to buy this Christmas :)

errm nvm.. should’ve google’d it
to anyone interested on the Atom vs Athlon Neo:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/06/amd-kinda-sorta-takes-aim-at-atom-with-athlon-neo/

ATI Radeon X1270 vs. nVidia GF 9400M?

should cuda and stream be considered in this comparison?

AFAIK, with the ION chipset, you get CUDA as well which beefs up to a considerable degree video encoding, (among other things).

i don’t know about the X1270 though.

hmmm looks like going for either netbook means a compromise on one department… guess that means I’ll be putting off my purchase again *sigh*

Remember kids, the 311 has the ION “LE” which based on Nvidia Graphics cards parlance means “Lousy Edition (aka crippled).” It’s different from the default ION chipset.

So are there any benchmarks for the 9400M LE?

The 9400M will beat the X1270 to a bloody pulp yes, but I don’t think the same can be said about the 9400M LE.

My gut feel says that the two graphics chips are the same in performance. Though I need to see benchmarks of the LE to make sure.

Graphics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3WWBmFOWQo&feature=fvsr

CPU:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=AMD+Athlon+Neo+X2+Dual+Core+L335

There is the difference.. up to 16 pipelines for Ion LE while 16 pipelines for Ion.

http://www.liliputing.com/2009/09/the-difference-between-nvidia-ion-and-ion-le-not-much.html

http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/30/nvidia-ion-le-hack-adds-directx-10-support-raises-interesting-q/

FYI

Lolz. I take it back. XP pala si 311. It is supported. But that means you can’t really upgrade it to Vista or Win7.

@Lindsay – belat? hehehe joke! nywy, cheaper doesn’t mean best price

@manong
Don’t you mean ‘cheaper doesn’t mean best value’?

sorry disregard previous post. Misposted ~_~

haha…I found an article about the GPU of HP Mini 311…Read nyo muna and then consider…

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Newsentry.153+M593890711a9.0.html

it is still too early to decide which is a better machine as ion le was recently blown out to be capable of dx10 and such a machine hasnt been tested against the dualcore u210.

most available info to date show just the ion le 311 vs the single core u210.

package-wise go for the u210 if you want to save money, go for the 311 for forward-usability as it has more powerful architecture and the u210 is not overclockable (yet?)

then again better netbooks are on the horizon.

save your money.

i will vote for the HP as it was the test unit at nVidia website for its ION platform it can play games like CoD 4, LfD, portal with medium-low specs…but as long as you upgraded the ram to 3GB so you can run it to good speeds and run even windows 7 at good speeds..

this is link to their site with a demo video with the specs used
http://www.nvidia.com/object/sff_ion.html

intel atom 230 CPU
1GB ddr3
and the nVidia ION

@ Harvey – download the appropriate ATI Drivers .. it should solve the issue ..

Oh, and without the External DVD+RW? Is it possible? just checking my budget.. =)

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