On Tuesday, at the Computex electronics show, Micro-Star International (MSI) launched the Wind mini-desktop PC and the Wind mini-laptop.

When comparing the Wind desktop to a traditional PC, the former stands out with two major advantages: size and power consumption. Its dimensions are 300mm by 260mm by 65mm and, for running at full capacity, it only needs 35-watts (a regular PC goes for 250-watts). A system description: 160GB 7200 SATA HDD, Wi-Fi, 7.1-channel audio and built-in TV card.

The mini-laptop comes with 2GB of DRAM, 80GB HDD and can connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi 802.11b/g.

Information regarding prices and release dates has yet to be mentioned.

Although its mini-laptop is very good, MSI has some serious competitors.

At the beginning of April, Hewlett Packard announced the launch of its 2133 Mini-Note. Starting at a base price of $500, it has a nine-inch screen with 1280x768 resolution, weighs about 2 1/2 pounds and comes with an aluminum case and an optional webcam. The computer was outfitted with a 1.2GHz Via processor, 1 GB of RAM and a 120 GB, 5400 RPM hard drive.

In the second half of April, Asustek Computer Inc. unveiled the Eee PC 900, that comes with an 8.9-inch display running at a resolution of 1,024 by 600 pixels, 1GB of memory, Intel UMA graphics card, Intel Mobile CPU, Wifi, VGA out, and SD/MMC slot, a 1.3-megapixel camera and either a 12GB or 20GB solid-state drive (SSD) for storage.