MSI to sell MacBook Air rival with Intel Pentium chips

From InfoWorld: Micro-Star International (MSI) plans to sell a laptop in its X-Slim series with a high-powered Pentium chip to better compete against Apple's ultra-thin MacBook Air.

The company showed off its first X-Slim device, the X320 netbook, at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last Thursday, a 1.3-kilogram (three pounds) ultra-thin device with a 13.4-inch screen that runs on a 1.33GHz Intel Z530 Atom microprocessor.

The Atom-based X320s will cost less than $1,000, while X-Slim laptops with Pentium chips inside will cost over $1,000, said Vincent Sung, assistant vice president of notebook research and development at MSI.

Intel's Atom microprocessor family is aimed at small, mobile devices because it consumes less power so batteries last longer. But the chips are also far less powerful than microprocessors aimed at mainstream laptop PCs, such as Intel Pentium microprocessors.

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