MSI Wind

Tonight I’m playing with the MSI Wind, which is a netbook for those of you that don’t keep up with that sort of stuff. I need to figure out if these cheap little suckers are useful for the library, plus since they are the newest portable tech fad, it’s nice to play with one.

Here’s my thoughts. First, the good:

• It’s small and light, and compared to my Latitude laptop, that is friggin’ awesome. It’s on my lap right now and not even burning my legs.
• Runs pretty well even with the smaller processor.
• Nice crisp display even if it is only 1024×600.

And now the bad:

• No middle mouse button. That bugs me when I’m in Firefox.
• The . key and / key are too far to the left. I keep getting the slash when I need the period.
• My eyesight might be too crappy to use it too much.

It’s only my first night using it, so I may come up with more good and bad later, but for now I’m going to read my feeds and my normal “stuff” and see how it works out.

Oh… I make more typos on the 92% size keyboard.