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NAS4Free on Wind U123H, the old clunker stopped charging this morning. Remember NetBooks? Yeah, those cheap Intel ATOM driven mini-notebooks... Well I still have one lying around, an MSI Wind U123H. I upgraded it from Windows 7 to 10 during the free period, but since it is about 9 yo hardware it isn't running so well. I've decided to re-purpose the Wind into a NAS or Networked Attached Storage. I want to use it as a Network Backup location for both Time Machine and Windows Backup, and maybe explore Media Server functions as well. Basically, I just felt the hardware was just gathering dust and wanted to do something more. I took out the 240Gb Toshiba 5400rpm with Windows 10, and plunked in the 500Gb Seagate Momentus 5400rpm that I had lying around. I was able to finally get it installed in a USB, early this morning around 1 AM. I decided it was time to shutdown the machine and call it a night. So this morning I noticed that the MSI Wind wasn't charging, I tried ...

[mine is colored dark grey]   hey I’m selling my netbook. very good condition. Comes with Windows XP Home SP3 and a 9cell battery instead or 3 or 6. I get about 8hrs + on a charge w/ aggressive power management. Got this bad boy for 32K originally (bumped RAM to 2Gb & 9cell battery) It has a built-in 3G modem (SIM card not included) so you can have internet access as long as you have cellular access. BTW it also works on GPRS & EDGE Here are some more specs: Intel Atom processor N280 (1.66GHz) Intel 945GSE+ICH7M Windows XP Home Edition SP3 10 inch 1,024×600 WSVGA 2GB RAM Intel GMA950 160GB HDD 1.3MP webcam Card reader (SDHC/SD/MMC/memory stick/memory stick PRO) WiFi (b/g/n) Bluetooth2.0+EDR LAN: 10/100Base-TX LAN VGA×1 (D-Sub15 pin) USB2.0 port ×3 Microphone input ×1 Headphone output ×1 RJ45 Ethernet connector ×1 3/6-cell battery Width 260× depth 180× height 19.75-33 (mm) Weight 1kg with 3-cell It’s a ca...

About 2 months since I bought the MSI Wind U100, a nice little machine. I've been running XP for the most part [currently on Windows 7 pre-beta, for the past 2 weeks] and have been quite happy with my purchase.  So far I have found no need to get a separate DVD drive as I don't install apps via CD/DVD daily nor do I rip/burn CD/DVDs. To get my data off my office PC, I used one of those DIY SATA/IDE enclosures plus my desktop's 2ndary HDD [320Gb 7200RPM Seagate]. With the same enclosure I also used my desktop's DVD-R/W drive [24x LITE-ON] to install from CD/DVD. An USB DVD-R/W drive is 3,500 PhP. I think UMPCs [ultra mobile PCs] are pricing themeselves out of existence... As a testament to this most manufacturers are producing netbooks but not all of them are making UMPCs. Come to think of it netbooks can be classified under UMPCs. As of now price, OS, screen resolution differentiate them. What I would like to see on the next crop of netbooks: On-board WWAN [wireless wid...