Microsoft's 2nd Laptop Hunters commercial: Giampaulo buys an HP HDX

Two week ago, Microsoft put out an ad about a lady(lauren an actress) who wanted to buy a 17″ laptop for under $1,000. Not finding a Mac for that price, she quipped “I’m just not cool enough to be a Mac person“.
And now the second Microsoft's Laptop Hunters commercials went live, get ready for Giampaulo, who professes to be "technically-savvy" and calls the MacBook Pro looks "so sexy," but ultimately rejects it because he wants to pay for "computing power," not the "brand."

Armed with a $1,500 budget, he walks out of Fry's with an HP HDX 16 that features a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo and NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics, 4GB of RAM, and a 500GB drive -raw numbers that would cost you $2,499 from Apple, although you'd be getting a vastly better display.

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MSI Wind U123, X-Slim X320 & X340 price and specs confirmed

MSI announced the specifications for their Wind U123 netbook and X-Slim X320 & X340 notebooks. In Japan, the 10.2-inch Wind U123 has the Intel Atom N280 1.66GHz processor, WWAN and a TV-tuner; meanwhile X-Slim X340 uses Intel’s SU3500 CULV processor. The the X-Slim X320 has an Intel Atom Z530 1.6GHz processor and optional 3G/WiMAX.

The X320 and X340 have a 1366 x 768 13.4-inch display, with the GMA500 graphics and the latter 1080p-capable GMA4500MHD graphics; it also has an HDMI output.It has 320GB storage on the X340 and 250GB on the X320 while RAM is up to 2GB and 4GB. WiFi on both MSI products is b/g/n; they also have 2.0+EDR Bluetooth, VGA outputs and three USB 2.0 ports .

According to my source MSI Wind U123 will be available in the US in blue, red, white and gray come early 2Q. Meanwhile the MSI X-Slim X320 will also launch in the US in May, priced from $700, and the MSI X-Slim X340 will be priced from under $1,000, again from May; both come in silver, black and white.
[via Engadget]

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