MSI has affirmed rumours that they are manufacturing a Pine Trail-Packing convertible touchscreen netbook.Anticipated to first appearance at CES 2010 the MSI Wind U150 will compete with Asus Eee PC T91. The U150 won’t alone house Intel’s coming Pine Trail platform, however it will operate Microsoft’s new operating system Windows 7.
On the other hand, word has it that the U150 may not make use of Windows 7′s multitouch functionality. The netbook purportedly uses a resistive instead of a capacitive touchscreen. SlashGear notes that the conclusion is probably an effort to keep prices down. Although that’s still a year away, MSI recently declared that it would introduce an AMD-based version of their Wind U200.
The two disclosed U210 sub-models will feature similar specs. The U210-002 sports a 12.1″ display, an AMD Athlon Neo MV-40 1.6GHz, 1GB of RAM, an ATI Mobility Radeon X1250, a 160GB HDD, and Windows XP. The U210-010 kicks it up a notch with 2GB of RAM, a 250GB HDD, and Vista. The former will ship for about $570, and the latter $642.
