MSI Wind First Look

[dietcokefiend]

My request is that you guys see how Vista runs on there. I want to maybe get one of these for my wife, she wants a notebook and it would keep her off my PC. Cheap, cute, small, the wind is a perfect match. However ever since I put Vista on our PC she hates XP now and I dont think she would like to use XP on her notebook. I know somewhere they said the Wind will even run Vista, but some more detailed reviews of how well it runs it would be great.

When I am done with the main review I hope to load Vista onto it since if I bought one of em that would be the intended OS. Drivers would be the only thing I would be concerned about, but I figure Intel should have some basic reference stuff to work with.

[alpacino]

Before you make your purchase, you should know that MSI's initial review units and display models differ from what they are actually shipping. The touchpad you will actually receive isn't made by Synaptic anymore, for example. It is made by Sentelic (Sen... who???) and is significantly inferior:

http://forums.msiwind.net/general-di...pad-t2133.html

It's annoying me to no end, as I hate tap-to-click, and that feature is built into the IC on the pad. This is true with Synaptic touchpads too, except that Synaptics (and virtually all other manufacturers) all it to be disabled via a driver.

[shoelace_510]

Before you make your purchase, you should know that MSI's initial review units and display models differ from what they are actually shipping. The touchpad you will actually receive isn't made by Synaptic anymore, for example. It is made by Sentelic (Sen... who???) and is significantly inferior:

http://forums.msiwind.net/general-di...pad-t2133.html

It's annoying me to no end, as I hate tap-to-click, and that feature is built into the IC on the pad. This is true with Synaptic touchpads too, except that Synaptics (and virtually all other manufacturers) all it to be disabled via a driver.

That is completely untrue. I have an MSI Wind that I just got this week through Newegg and it has a synaptic touchpad. If you need proof I can post a printscreen of the Synaptics software that works with mine...

[fabarati]

And you don't like tap to click? o_O

[shoelace_510]

And you don't like tap to click? o_O

lol yeah. It also has a seesaw left and right click, so what's your problem with the touchpad??

[alpacino]

@shoelace_510

There's an awful lot of people claiming to have received Sentelic drivers on the forums. I just thought someone might like to know. There's more posting in Germany, too:
http://forum.msi-wind.de/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=961
I have no way of knowing exactly how many Winds shipped with Synaptic vs Sentelic touchpads. Anyways, it's great that you received a working machine at least... want to trade?

And you don't like tap to click? o_O

Not on a 1.7" x 2" touchpad I don't. I kinda like being able to scroll from one side of the screen to the other without tapping random files. Granted there's people who do like it... so if you bought a Wind that shipped with the original touchpad, you can choose for yourself.

As a side note, I also kinda like being able to find decent touchpad drivers in Linux or OS X 86, too. I can't complain to MSI about that since they don't support those OSes, but y'know it's still annoying when you've done your homework on a machine, and wind up receiving something different. Since Sentelic is not a well known company it makes it harder to find OSS drivers.