MSI Wind vs. HP Mini-Note XP – Which Boots Faster?
Jun 3, 2008 03:58 AM EDT by Meghan J. McDonough, LAPTOP Web Producer/Writer 
Every second you sit there waiting for your laptop to boot is another moment you’ll wish you had back when you’re lying on your deathbed and your life is flashing before your eyes. So we were wondering: how many seconds of your life will you wait for the Atom-based MSI Wind to boot as opposed to a VIA-based system like the HP Mini-Note with XP? Check out how they both performed in the below video.
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- Who is MSI?
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June 3rd, 2008 at 12:14 pm
And the time to boot the linux version? Does anyone know it?
June 3rd, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Amazing how hp put a slower HD in its Mini Note, yet upstart MSI didn’t go cheap and offered a faster HD. And then American companies wonder why they lose market share to Asian companies.
June 4th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Bravo! Great video. Along with all of the techie stuff, this type of “real world” information is what I (and hopefully, other folks) want to see. Side-by-side comparisions of competing products.
You guys have also had the most thorough review. Thanks.
June 11th, 2008 at 5:00 am
it’s great that the msi wind boots in around 45secs! but note that in the video it also shows the speaker capacity of HP with the opening sound of xp.
June 14th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Great ! Asus is better
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:21 am
datenrettung Says:
June 14th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Great ! Asus is better
are you seriouse ,it’s MSI not Asus
July 23rd, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Of course the MSI wind is faster, it has the latest Intel ATOM processor while HP mininote is using a VIA processor.
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:49 am
Where’s the video?!
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:50 am
Where’s the video?!
September 17th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Can you really compare the boot times of these 2 machines when one runs XP and the other Vista?
November 23rd, 2008 at 7:47 am
which one is running vista? both looked like they ran xp
May 30th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
The winner is the MSI Wind isn’t it?