MSI has previously announced the Wind Pad 100W, a tablet that runs Windows 7 Starter. Now reports are coming in that the tablet is available to purchase. If you aren’t familiar with the 100W, it has a 10.1-inch screen with a resolution of 1024 x 600. The machine uses a special “Wind Touch” user interface over the Windows 7 OS to make it more tablet friendly. The CPU inside is an Atom Z530 at 1.6GHz and it has 2GB of RAM. Storage is provided by a 32GB SSD, and the battery promises over six hours. The tablet also has front and rear cameras, mini HDMI out, a SD card reader and WiFi.

It sells for $709 (USD) and sounds like a really expensive netbook minus the keyboard to me.

[via Wired]

The GX660 has a 15.6-inch screen and uses an Intel Core i5-450M CPU. The graphics are handled by ATI Radeon HD 5870 Broadway XT video card. The rig has 4GB of RAM and 500GB of storage along with a 720p Webcam, Bluetooth, and WiFi. HDMI out and USB 3.0 are also built-in. the GX660 starts at $1449.99 (USD).

The GX660R is the big brother to the standard GX660. It has many of the same features, but differs in a few notable specs. The 15.6-inch screen gets a super sharp 1920 x 1080 resolution, and the CPU is upgraded to a zippy Core i7-740QM. The GX660R also has 6GB of RAM, 640GB of storage, and a Blu-ray drive along with the other features of its little brother. It starts at $1749.99.

For those too lazy to read my first article, screw you. But let’s hug it out while I tell you what’s so nice about this device. As you can see it’s a wireless keyboard, but what you can’t see is that it has an accelerometer which lets users use the whole thing as a mouse as well. The left and right mouse buttons are located on its shoulder, so you don’t have to shift your grip in between typing and mousing.

The keyboard has a USB dongle, giving it a range of up to 50 m and making it compatible with major operating systems. Watch as this talking plaid shirt demos the keyboard and gives tips on proper usage:

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Remember: chu conchol the keyborrh, genchly turrh yo wrish, do nah mooh yo arrhm dish weih.

The air keyboard will go on sale in Germany this March for €79 (approx. $106 USD)… but a quick search shows that a non-MSI rebranded version is already on sale at Amazon for only $90! Now if only I had a credit card.

[via Netbook News via ElectricPig via Everything USB]

The computer is running a full version of Windows Vista Ultimate. Apparently they started with an MSI Axis 945GM barebones system and rejiggered it to fit into the gaming system’s case. I especially like how they labeled the game cartridge to look like it contains the Windows install. Very clever.

Now what would be really fun would be to boot up a Super Nintendo emulator on this system, so we can play some Donkey Kong Country.

[via Akihabara News]