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Detailed review
Pros: Uses better graphics chip, ATI X1250 than any other netbook with the outdated intel graphics. The screen size is awesome with a HD supporting resolution to boot! Battery life is good with 4+ hours. Keyboard is large enough and yet this netbook is still compact. Great for viewing and converting RAW pictures into JPEG while on vacation.

Cons: Vista and Office 2007 updates and patches takes over 5 hours of downloading and installing. Windows 7 upgrade process charges $10 shipping and makes you jump through hoops but is worth it over crappy vista. No bluetooth but resolution and size are more important to me.

Yes this is a paste of my newegg review!

Update:
After upgrading to Win7 Home Premium this netbook is no longer sluggish like it was under Vista and I can now play my camcorder 1080i videos without stuttering like Vista did. I also played a 720p quicktime video and unless i closed all open windows it would stutter but this netbook can now do HD video, albiet you need to stop multi tasking.

MSI has drivers and the software on their website making a clean install or HDD upgrade possible without losing functionality.
review history
2010-07-22
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