Small laptops have recently become more and more affordable. Even though the company that started it all with its eee devices has disqualified itself with a variety of deceptive stunts like reducing battery capacities silently, a variety of competitors have stood up to make Asus’s life miserable. MSI’s Wind U100 can be considered the best-of-breed due to its lovely 10″ screen – but can it stack up in a TamsPalm review?

As of now, the Wind U100 isn’t available globally. However, our friends at Aquariusoft’s have ordered one for us from an online shop based in the Netherlands – the machine arrived in a huge box:
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The box contained another box – this time with MSI branding:
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Opening this box reveals the carrying case – and another blue box that contains the actual laptop (Russian recursive dolls come to mind ;) ):
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The blue box contains the laptop at the very top:
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Removing the laptop allows you to access the battery and the charger:
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MSI included a few fold-out cards that serve as “Getting Started” manual:
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Interestingly, a full Windows XP Home CD with SP3 slip-streamed inside is included for fun and profit:
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Starting up the Wind U100 for the first time opens a program called MSI Recovery. The program allows you to choose a language for the device – a movie showing the process can be found at Google Video’s.

In the end, the Wind U100’s accessory bundle is great: it contains everything needed to get started using the machine and even includes a carrying case that other manufacturers omit. But can the box survive the rest of the TamsPalm review – tune in soon to find out more!

P.S. An unboxing video can be found at Google Video!

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