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Our standard set of benchmark test proved no problem for the U115 - it breezed through PCMark05. It put in a very good CPU performance, coming in just between the best N270-based netbook and those fitted with the faster N280. It was a little bit slower on memory performance but its hard drive score more than made up for it. It was second only to the astonishingly fast Asus Eee S101 and still a fair way ahead of the rest of the pack in the hard disk test.

PCMark05 Results
CPU

MSI Wind U115 - PCMark05

Longer bars are better

Memory

MSI Wind U115 - PCMark05

Longer bars are better

HDD

MSI Wind U115 - PCMark05

Longer bars are better

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"The idea is...."

Actually, I reckon that the idea is *really* to be "Readyboost", er, ready for the Win 7 netbook edition launch.

ISTR that Win 7 will use yer actual small SSD as a Readyboost device rather than refusing to countenance anything other than a USB connected device for such, as with its more brain-dead predecessor.

With this setup, they'll have something that can get Win 7 up and running in a sensible time on the otherwise sclerotic hardware.

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@Scott Mckenzie

OMG you're right it has got a strange £ over the 3 too. It is almost as if the UK computer on the UK website with price quoted in GB pounds has a UK keyboard fitted. What numpties.... hash next to the enter key to cap it off... blimey.

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Small ... what? ... computer

Four flippin' hundred and flippin' fifty flippin' quid? That's what I was quoted for a brand new Thinkpad X31 on Tottenham Court Road a week or two ago. Or two perfectly good laptops from Morgan.

The point of the Eee 701 - and I love mine - was that you put up with the low spec for the sake of the low price. How we seem to be expected to pay extra for the low spec.

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