I had problems installing IE7 too! But a simple reboot helped.

Home wifi works right so far.

Damn, new Wind has OSX xompetible wifi card too? Us early adopters always get screwed! I even paid 100 dollar more a few months ago. Sigh*

Opening the Wind up does not void your warranty. MSI will send you another sticker if you want one. It was all over the web that MSI changed the policy. Before I put another GB of RAM in my Wind I called MSI. They guy said it was no problem and asked if I wanted a new sticker.

I had the exact same problem that Dave mentioned when I was testing the Wibrain B1 UMPC device out last year. It kept shutting down my WiFi router and was a major pain so I couldn’t even use it and before this I was actually considering purchasing one.

I had issues trying to get Mac OS X on mine last night and need to restart again with a start at cleaning up the partitions.

Oh, and I’ve not experienced any problems with the wifi on the MSI Wind, though I did get the 802.11n version, so I’m not sure if it performs better than the standard 802.11 version.

James, I recently did a video iChat with two other netbook owners. While I had my “mac-ified” MSI Wind, Ben has an Asus Eee 901 while Preetam had an Acer Aspire One. We each loved our machines for specific reasons.

I loved mine for the general hardware design (nice keyboard) and ability to run Mac OSX fairly easily (dual boot with XP).

Ben loved his for the price as the Eee PC 901 ran fairly cheap in Singapore and how Ubuntu fit his needs.

Preetam comes in-between us for his love of the Aspire One’s slick hardware design (sans the side trackpad buttons) and middle of the range pricing.

You can watch us show off our netbooks and talk about the hacks we’ve done here: http://theory.isthereason.com/?p=2339

Got the Wind for my wife with 2gb, 6-cell battery, and 120MB. Installed a few apps and had a problem updating to IE7 (it comes with 6). Then I got a “I can see the WiFi but I can’t attach to it” error as well as a couple of other flaky moments.

Killed their install (they give you 2 partitions) and reinstalled in ONE partition from their image (XP and drivers included in Wind package) killing all the bloatware. Got all the updates from Microsoft, installed Ghost, Office 2007 (with Addintools.com Classic Menu – yahoo!), BitDefender Antivirus, FireFox, and the last thing I did is update IE to 7. I made sure the .NET 2.0 hotfix got down ok (very slow, watch the blinking blue hard drive light, you are getting very sleepy). Powered down the COMCAST hardware and WiFi router. Powered everything back up – solid as a rock since then (about 2 weeks).

Over all impressions about the Wind. I really like it – it’s pretty snappy. It’s great for my wife, looking around the internet, and light office stuff. The keyboard takes a little getting used to (mostly they changed where the control key is on my left hand). The screen is very nice. Haven’t tested the battery life yet but it says it will get about 5.5 hours with reasonable power settings (including WiFi – but you know how this kind of thing goes). Suspends and hybernates like a champ. .