Founded in August 1986, MSI has continued to uphold a business philosophy that stresses "Award-winning product quality and outstanding customer service." MSI specializes in the design and manufacture of motherboards, graphics card, add-on cards, servers/workstations, iPC, barebones, communication devices, CE products, Notebooks, car infotainment products, and All-in-One PC. MSI's motherboard annual production is expected to reach 20.8 million units and the annual graphics card production is expected to reach 11.8 million units. MSI is now becoming one of the biggest motherboard and graphics card manufacturers in the world. It's first entry into the sub notebook market was the MSI Wind.
The most popular MSI netbook today is the MSI Wind U123 with a 10.2-Inch 1024x600 LCD Panel, 6 Cell Battery. It contains an Intel Atom N280 1.66GHz Processor, 1GB DDR2 533 Mhz SO-DIMM (1 Slot) upgradable to 2 GB MAX, 160GB 2.5" SATA Hard Drive, Windows XP Home, and 6 Cell Battery. Users comment that it is a solid, reliable netbook and a good value.
There are some solid reasons to consider an MSI Wind. It's small and fairly light (about 2.6 pounds), and it's sturdy enough to take a beating. The MSI Wind was one of the first netbooks available with the Eee PC family from ASUS, and it sold well during that time.
Today offerings from Acer, HP, Lenovo, and Dell place serious competition on this MSI netbook.