MSI X340 Lets Air out of Apple

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Now, before I get Apple fans knocking my blog door down, I will qualify that statement.  It’s obvious that the Mac Air bests the MSI X340 in a few key ways – one being the screen – but, at it’s price of $900, it is a great option.

The X340 weighs a little less than the Air at 2.9 pounds.  No, it doesn’t include an optical drive – but who wants one now anyway?  You have your flash keys, stop crying.  Anyway, it also sports an okay screen with good resolution and a full keyboard.  The battery life is a little lacking – it fizzles before you hit the 2 hour mark, but the battery is also user replaceable.  So, pros and cons.  It does have a little less potent processor and wimpier graphics.  But again, for $900 this is a great alternative.  First thing I would do is replace that SATA drive with a SSD drive.  I would like to see battery life with that in place.  It also sports 2 USB ports and an HDMI connection.  And, it comes with WiMax built in.  Nice touch.  You can buy external CD/DVD drives or a Blu-ray drive.

Specs:

Battery

• Battery type included
• Lithium-ion

Connectivity

• Network interface
• 10/100/1000 LAN, Bluetooth, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n

• USB ports
• 2

• VGA
• Yes

• HDMI
• Yes

Display

• Natural resolution (max)
• 1366 x 768 pixels

• Diagonal screen size
• 13.4 inch

Drives

• Primary hard drive
• 250 GB

General

• Weight
• 1.3 kg

• Laptop type
• Thin and light

Graphics

• Graphics hardware
• Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X4500

Memory

• Amt of RAM
• 2GB

Other

• Integrated webcam
• Yes

Processor

• Processor type
• Intel Celeron M

• Processor speed
• 1.2 GHz

Software

• Operating system
• Windows Vista Home Premium

Sound

• Embedded stereo speakers
• Yes

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