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Battle of the breeze: MSI Wind versus MacBook Air

By Rory Reid on 03 July 2008, 5:14pm

Special powers
The Air has several key tricks up its sleeve. As if its uncanny ability to fit inside a manila envelope wasn't enough, it also has high-speed 802.11n Wi-Fi (300Mbps, kids), and that funky Remote Disc feature that lets it hijack the optical drive of the nearest machine. It'll make you look great to the opposite sex, too. As long as you don't mind them being the skinny sort.

The Wind's most special ability is its stupidly low price -- it can do pretty much everything the Air can for about £1,000 less. It would have breezed this round had MSI kept its promise to include an overclocking function, but the instant underclocking feature is okay -- at least it'll help preserve battery life.

Verdict
The Wind has to win(d) this round, simply because it's so damn cheap. Would you drive a Ferrari around all day, every day, when a Honda Civic can get the job done for a fraction of the price? Yeah, we'd pick the Ferrari too, but given the price of petrol these days we'd be broke within a week.

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