"Price-wise, the site quotes a range of €299 to €699"

300 to 700 euros? That's one heck of a pricerange! If anything, it shows that MSI's sub-notebook is still on the level of "prototype" with nothing concrete yet.

Let's hope they come up with a worthy competitor to Eee.

Is a 10" display an advantage when going head to head with the Eee and it's lightweight form factor with a 7" (and/or upcoming 8.9") screen?
I mean if they keep adding components and super-sizing them aren't we going to end up with a -err- regular laptop basically?

Heck this deserves a joke if there ever was one. :D

MSI seems to want to split the Atom. ;)

It looks like this market slice will be getting crowded real soon... which is great for us consumers. I'll be glad to have so many choices when I'll be in the market for an ultra-mobile.

It would be great to have a techreport round-up when they all come to the market.

That's creeping close to the realm of my old iBook 12" though. Still, it could have a lot smaller volume, and that's an important metric. I guess the cheap one uses the 1GHz Atom? That's not going to be a screamer, even compared to a 900MHz Celeron M...

However I think that 9" 1024x600 is quite a nice screen size for the EeePC, but we will see what else comes with the new iterations over the next few months.

I want something small enough to pop into a bag, robust enough to live through some bangs, but with a big enough screen to be usable. 9" or 10" seems to be the screen size required (and also makes the keyboard usable). I just want the EeePC to look less chunky.

I'll believe the 7h battery time when I measure it.

Or they price it.