MSI Shows Off 10-inch Android Tablet with Tegra 2
It's all about the Pads up in here.
MSI is following in the footsteps of both Apple and Asus and releasing it's own Pad tablet. Finding their homes under the WindPad moniker are not one but two 10-inch tablets from MSI. The first, the WindPad 100, is the one MSI focused on during its press conference at Computex.
The WindPad 100 is a Windows 7 Home Premium tablet that runs on Intel's Z530 Atom processor (1.66GHz). It boasts 2GB of RAM, a 32GB SSD, a resolution of 1024x600 and a custom UI sitting on top of Windows 7. Portswise you're looking at 2 x USB and HDMI. There'll also be a Webcam, which we assume will be of the same standard seen on most netbooks.
Rather unlike the Asus Eee Pads, which won't be available until 2011, the WindPad will go on sale 'later this year,' for $499.
MSI was less showy with this next WindPad and we can't imagine why. Though it's also a 10-inch tablet, the WindPad 110 is likely to turn a few more heads, and not because of it's curvy design. For starters, it's not an Intel-based machine; the 110 runs on Nvidia's Tegra 2 instead. It does away with the fully-fledged Windows 7 Home Premium, packing Google's Android OS instead. Endagdet reports that though one person at Computex said MSI was still deciding whether or not to bring it to the market, another said it would be going on sale for $399 at the end of the year.


The second one looks hot though, and considering it runs android, I'm definitely interested.
The second one looks hot though, and considering it runs android, I'm definitely interested.
I agree, the white border seems terrible. Interesting though, if it does sell for 400$ then I might buy it. I'm running an archos 7" tablet that is becoming terrible with the little amount of support they give to their customers. 250$ for an Archos 7 runs Android, chrome for searching online, 512mb of ram, and 160gb HDD, arm 800MHz. Bought it nearly a year ago when it was already two years old. To me it was, wow, 160gb hand held device that plays HD 1280x720! I needed to have it, although now that youtube and most of online sites use flash 10 the archos's online features are all failing. They say their still working to get adobe in making a compatible version of flash 10.1, although that's been planned for over a year. So if it doesn't happen by October of this year I'm thinking of sending it back for a full refund with the statement, "Your product was falsely advertising features that are no longer working."
Look closely, that's a silver border isn't it? I too would rather have win 7. Though too be honest, I'd rather have a netbook, no keyboard would be rubbish for me...
I think he means the two lines either side of the MSI, not the border.Those lines may be silver as well, but I agree with him, silver or white, they shout bad retro eighties.
Like the fact that it has an SSD.
Don't like the price so much though...
how do you figure that. apple had a good idea with the tablet but when everyone heard about how f'ed up it was only apple fanbois that really liked it. now everyone else is trying to make a better tablet or a tablet everyone wanted apples tablet to be like
heck i would like one of these tablets just to lounge around and use it to remote into my desktop pc
This is an investment that returns about -40% per year.
The Android based tablet was looking sloppy as hell. Dell has contracted out HTC to build 5", 7", and 10" tablets, and they're looking "Sleak". MSI will need to step its game up if they want to compete with the establish Android players.
but the next statement...
I am confused...