4 out of 5 stars! A College Student's Viewpoint 2010-05-31I've had a MSI Wind U123 with a 9-cell battery for about a year now. I UPGRADED THE RAM to 2GB. Voided my warranty, oh well. I Installed windows 7 professional. Here is my experiences: It's very light and I just throw it in my backpack like a book. Everyone comments that its so small and cute. I tell them it has up to 6~8 hours of battery life. (They are amazed.) I surf the web, I can do work on it if I need to. (Even such as heavy programs like MATLAB, Photoshop, etc.) Sometimes its a bit slow. I mostly used it for email, doing on-line homework, and programming. It works well. Screen size is an ANNOYANCE. I put windows task bar on auto hide... I wish all my applications would have auto hide the filemenu, etc. If you have a 3-4 year old laptop, it's about as powerful as those. In terms of how much of a difference RAM made, I'm sure it made it boot up a bit faster as well as Photoshop run smoother, but its risky. Today, I must suggest to you this: Get a smart phone. Buy a laptop. But a Netbook... its All Day Computing
-- C. Geisler USA