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MSI and Asus are already ‘battling it out’ in the mini-PC market with the Wind and Eee PC notebooks. However not that long ago Asus showed us the Eee Box and of course MSI has come up with some competition.

We do not yet know the complete details of what has been unimaginatively dubbed the “MSI Wind PC” but what we do know is very interesting. First, it is small, measuring in at just 11.81 x 10.24 x 16.14-inches, and this compact system is due to the fact that (or so MSI claims) the full-speed operation of the desktop is just 35 watts, meaning that it doesn’t need a fan to cool it. This not only makes it smaller, but also a lot quieter than your average PC, at just 30dB.

The only other specifications that MSI has released is that it will be Energy Star 4.0 compliant, and will include a 60GB 7,200RPM hard drive, Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 802.11n, a DVD combo drive and a TV tuner card. However, slightly irritating, we do not know anything about the processor or RAM that it will have, or even the operating system, so as of yet we cannot compare it to the Eee Box, but hopefully it wont be long.

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