Who said netbooks were dead? MSI has just announced news of their latest netbook featuring a dual-core Intel Atom Cedar Trail CPU.

While the popularity of tablet devices and the reason boom in ultrabooks, you would think this would mean nothing but doom and damnation to all netbooks!

But there are people out their who want all the portability of a mini laptop, while retaining all the usual desktop Windows features!

Enter MSI’s new Wind U180 Netbook, with an Intel Atom Cedar Trail 1.86GHZ CPU, 2GB RAM and the choice of either a 320/750GB HDD or 512GB SSD, running a Windows 7 OS.

While the hardware is all pretty powerful, the Wind U180 manages to keep everything nice and compact thanks to it’s netbook standard 10.1 inch screen with 1024 x 600 resolution.

The MSI Wind U180 Netbook will be on show next week at CES along with a few more MSI updates.

Via: Ubergizmo