Asus may not have delivered the $199 super notebook we were promised, but they have created an entirely new market for compact notebooks (called Netbooks).

The next big player to join the gang is MSI with the "Wind".

The MSI wind is powered by a 1.6GHz Intel Atom chip, has a 10" display (capable of 1024×600), 1Gb of ram, a spacious 80Gb SATA drive and even comes complete with Gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth and a 1.3MP webcam.

In every possible way it is better than the Asus Eee PC, plus it’s only $80 more than the most common Eee (the 4G).

That’s right; the MSI Wind will be released on the 27th for just $479.99.

You can learn more about this machine here and a snazzy flash animated demo with horrible music can be found here.