MSI WIndbox makes the MSI Wind VESA mountable

The MSI Windbox is an interesting variation on the netbook-turned-PC concept: it's basically a stock MSI Wind without a display, meant to be strapped behind a VESA display of somekind. Otherwise, the specs are the same as always, for which I have set up a TextPander script: 1.6 GHz Atom, 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive. It's actually a rather cool idea, but there's no HDMI out, and as Slashgear notes, that is a missed trick: this could be marketed as a very cheap Media Center Expander if it had one. Price when released will be roughly at around $260.

VESA-mounted fanless nettop [Slashgear]

[#1 posted by ender_sb , November 29, 2008 4:40 AM]

DVI out, in place of or in addition to VGA out, would have been a nice addition. DVI-to-HDMI cables aren't all that expensive. (Of course, I've got no idea if/how they work the HDCP.)

[#2 posted by LyhjeHylje , November 29, 2008 6:23 AM]

For a moment I thought it was finally the laptop dock I have been waiting for; the one that works as easily as the ipod docks.

[#3 posted by guy_jin , November 29, 2008 4:22 PM]

I'm actually tempted. shove this in the back of my HDTV and I can surf the net in my living room.

the question is, is my HDTV vesa-mount-compatible?

[#4 posted by ROSSINDETROIT , December 1, 2008 5:25 AM]

Am I missing something here? I don't see a socket for a keyboard cable or the mention of Bluetooth to communicate with peripherals. It looks like a great unit but how do you interact with it?

[#5 posted by Anonymous , December 1, 2008 6:29 AM]

"It looks like a great unit but how do you interact with it?"

there are 3 USB ports.

[#6 posted by dculberson , December 1, 2008 8:22 AM]

"don't see a socket for a keyboard cable"

USB port? Top of the row in this picture, plus two on the opposite side in pic3 of the slashgear gallery.

Bluetooth would obviously be much preferrable, though.