Soon to be released by MSI, this is yet another notebook based on the Intel Atom platform. Atom has caught the fancy of manufacturers around the world who want to release small screen, cheaper laptops or “netbooks” as they are called. Though the design is sleek and sexy, at the first sight of this, we immediately thought of the MacBook Air. Don’t blame us, but we feel that the MSI design team really needs to apply more imagination when it comes to design.

Here are the specs :

13.4 inch screen
Intel Atom
USBx3, RJ-45,
SD card slot
VGA out
Thicness between 6mm - 19.8mm
1.3kg

This time though, we are seeing a 13.4″ screen which does put this netbook in a category of its own. Till now we were used to seeing the netbooks with screens ranging from 7″ to 10″ but 13.4″ takes it to the size of a laptop. We can understand when they want to give us smaller 10″ netbooks with a low power CPU like Atom but with a larger screen, the price is definitely going to go up and may go near the price of a laptop.

But, no word on the pricing as of now. We just have to wait and watch.

Microsoft have finally announced the name of the upcoming Windows release, it’s going to be called wait for it… Windows 7. It’s a pretty boring name really and windows hasn’t been called its build number since Windows 3 but on the Microsoft blog they have stated that going back to the new naming system is because of simplicity. They tried dates, 95, 98 and 2000 but they don’t release new versions often enough to justify naming Windows versions after their year. Microsoft have also tried “aspirational” names such as XP and Vista but couldn’t come up with a name suitable for the new version.

Personally I liked the names of XP and Vista they didn’t have any meaning but rolled off the tongue and sounded cool to say not only that but people knew what you were talking about, with this new version you are going to have to say “Windows 7” and not just “7” which may be a branding move from Microsoft.