Long Battery Life is one of those factors which have a whale-size impact on our decision while buying a netbok. MSI adds a brand new netbook to its MSI Wind family christened as U160. The hardware equipped with MSI Wind U160 lets it offer a whooping 14 hours of battery backup.
This new vehicle known as the Sea Quad allows lazy surfers to surf on the beach as well as on the sea without ever needing to get up (or fall off). This is certainly no ordinary surf board. The Sea Quad is sail powered which means it does rely on wind power, the sail is connected to a steering bar allowing you to glide through winds at whatever speed it allows.
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There isn’t yet a netbook from Apple at the moment and as you will be able to recall on the post in which we wrote about netbooks which were capable of running Mac OS X, only the Dell Mini 9 and MSI Wind achieved full scores. That’s why there is now a proper guide released from Gizmodo showing you how you could install and run Mac OS X on your Dell Mini 9 and hackintosh it into a proper Mac netbook (or mini MacBook?). So before you get started, you will need to make sure you have the following.
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Apple doesn’t look as if they are planning on releasing a netbook anytime soon, although this idea sounds extremely attractive to me. For those who can’t wait for this moment to come, this chart featured below is probably the best comparison guide available to date to help you decide whether you should use your netbook to take on Mac OS X.
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So the verdict basically is if you can’t wait and want to surprise your netbook by putting Mac OS X on it, you’re more likely to see success with the MSI Wind, or the Dell Mini 9.
We highly recommend you check out BoingBoing for further details…
