As per title says, Merry Christmas 2008!! I know its 3 days late, but hey its better late than nothing. I had been kinda busy the last few days. I went to a Christmas Dinner party on Christmas eve, went to a Christmas BBQ party at my friend's home on Christmas day, and lastly went on shopping frenzy on boxing day.

I had 3 items that I wanted to buy for Christmas, which are MSI Wind nettop, Oakley sunglasses, and Guitar Heroes: World Tour Complete Band Set. Out of the three the one that I wanted to buy so badly was the MSI Wind nettop. Appart from the standard nettop features, it has: 10 inch screen, Wireless N, 2 Gb of rams, and 6 cell batteries. Moreover, it was also on sale for $585. It is seriously a very good bargain for a nettop at the time, because with other nettops of the same specs, the price could go far to $800.

I have a tendency to be more conservative when it comes to spending money on non-necessaty tertiary item. So I give it some thinking before buying the MSI Wind. The main purpose that I would use a nettop is for superior mobility of browsing the internet and extra storage. Since the wind that i think of getting comes with 120 Gb harddrive, thus as an extra storage it wouldn't be a problem. However, as a superior mobility internet browser, that could be a problem. The problem is that the nettop doesn't come with built in 3G connectivity. This means you can't just browse internet anywhere and whenever you want, you need to find a wifi hotspot to browse the internet. I know you could use one of those 3G USB dongle, but its not nice to detach and re-attach the dongle everytime you need to connect to the internet. Some other things that it lacks of are CD drive and the latest generation of Intel Atom CPU. Bugger!!

To be honest one day I would still get a nettop, cause its a nice little gadget that makes sense to have. At the moment I think, I would rather wait for the next generation of nettop.

RWendi