MSI WindBox unveiled

Tiny nettop designed to fit to the rear of your monitor

28 November 2008 15:22 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott

In France MSI has unveiled a new product into its Wind range that makes the comical moniker even more amusing.

The "WindBox" is a low-cost, Asus Eee Box rivalling desktop PC - or nettop as these machines are increasingly being labelled - with a fairly unique twist.

The Windbox is designed to be VESA-mounted to the back of your monitor, saving desk space and giving you a kind of DIY all-in-one, presumably for those who don't fancy the Neton.

The PC will boast the Intel Atom N270 processor, 1GB or 2GB of RAM, and either 160GB or 250GB hard drive. It will get three USB ports, Gigabit Ethernet, b/g Wi-Fi b/g and will run Windows XP.

Not bad for a device measuring 300mm x 240mm x 65mm and weighing in at approximately 500g.

Journal du Geek reports that it will be available in the first quarter of 2009 for approximately 200 euros, which currently translates to the £165 mark. We'll bring you more when we have it.

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  • > The "WindBox" is a low-cost, Asus Eee Box rivalling
    > desktop PC - or nettop as these machines are
    > increasingly being labelled - with a fairly unique twist.
    >
    > The Windbox is designed to be VESA-mounted to the
    > back of your monitor.

    So, just like the Asus eee box then (which has all the VESA mounting hardware in the box).... :-)
    Posted by John B., UK
  • That is small Posted by Lin, CH
  • Dimensions are wrong. Should be 180mm x255mm x19mm big difference. Posted by kevt, United Kingdom
  • so it seems to me that it's just an eeebox clone.
    as mentioned above the eeebox also comes with VESA monting hardware.
    is MSI going to do anything original.... EVER?!?!
    Posted by Randylude92, USA
  • People should not be forced to have an operating system provided with a computer.
    When will people realise that Linux is the way to go?
    Posted by Lt Tinkle, Australia
  • BUT, and this is for me a big BUT, the Windbox is fanless! Just throw in an SSD, and you have a completly silent very cheap pc or even better, webserver. Posted by Jimmi, Denmark
  • MSI-USA sells Windbox w/o OS. Feel free to call me. 626-9130828 x193 Posted by Jonas Chen, USA

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