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MSI Wind U100

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Pros
Reasonably Bright 10-inch display
Hardy construction
Cons
Not much in the way of extra software
Not much in the way of extra software

Performance: Poor: 52
Features: Fair: 66
Design: Good: 74

Find out how these scores, and their relative weights, combine to produce the PC World Rating.

Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS2	1241
Autodesk 3ds max 8.0 SP-3 DirectX	1025
Battery Life (Video Playback in hh:mm)	2:24:08 AM
Firefox 2	755
Microsoft Office 2003 with SP-1	571
Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9.0	761
Multitasking	1098
Nero 7 Ultra Edition	717
Number of Included Batteries	1
Winzip Computing WinZip 10.0	622
WorldBench 6 Score	36
WorldBench 6 Word Score	Very Good

What You Should Know about the Wind U100

Not Much RAM for Multitasking

The more RAM your laptop has, the faster programs will run and the greater number of windows you can work in at one time. If your needs are simple and you rarely do more than two things at once on your PC, the relatively modest amount of memory that comes installed in inexpensive laptops will be enough. Today the standard amount of RAM shipped in most PCs is 2GB. If you like to multitask--say, you want to launch a search for a file and start backing up data to a disc while you watch a news video--you need more memory.