MSI X-Slim X340: more minuses than pluses?

MSI X-Slim X340 - positioned as an inexpensive alternative to the MacBook Air. For a while, the masses rejoiced, but a devastating review from ZDNet Australia appeared , which was “all bad”.

Review read the guys from Slashgear.com and grieved. For some time they assumed that the Australians were wrong, but since nobody was in a hurry to express alternative Australian points of view, I had to take the laptop myself and see what the Green Continent’s journalists didn’t like.

Unfortunately, in many respects - poor build quality, a cheap and ugly touchpad and a sloppy keyboard - we had to accept criticism.
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But, according to Slashgear.com, in terms of style X340 at the height. With a battery that lives offline for three and a half hours, the laptop looks quite thin. Performance, however, leaves much to be desired: according to users, with a processor Core 2 Solo, this ultra-thin laptop is not much different in speed from a netbook. Compared to the Intel Atom N280, the X340 is not much ahead. To the great joy of users, the integrated graphics of the Intel X4500 work well with 720p, even though there are some flaws that are reported in notebook reviews.

As a result, we have: the keyboard - on the one hand, comfortable, on the other - too “flimsy”, a bad touchpad and poor netbook performance. Anyway, the laptop is much cheaper than the MacBook Air and costs $ 800. Let me remind you that for this amount you will receive 2GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, WiFi and Bluetooth.

via slashgear.com