Possible Upgrades

There are 4 things that can be upgraded in the MSI Wind.

1. Hard Drive:  The computer will take any 2.5" hard drive.  Now they go as big as 500 GB for little more than 100 Dollars at Newegg

2. Ram:  You can install up to an additional 1GB chip of DDR-2 laptop RAM for a total of 2 GB.  (Leopard runs perfectly fine on 1 GB though)

3. WiFi Card:  You could install a wireless N card from Dell, but I don't see the point now that the stock Realtek chip is working.

4. Touchscreen:  There are touchscreen kits for the Wind floating around Ebay for around 100 Dollars.  While I haven't personally seen a Wind with this installed, it sounds like a really nice upgrade.  I'll write more about it as soon as I find out more.

Step 2: Update to 10.5.5 and fix Video and Sound

The next step is to update your machine to 10.5.5 and fix the video and sound outputs, as they will stop working with the update.

Simply fire up apples software update, and update everything, including the update to 10.5.5.  If you cant get 10.5.5 from there, just download the combo update to 10.5.5 from apples website, and install it separately.  At this time, there is still no WiFi working, so just plug it in with ethernet.  You can share the internet connection to it from a WiFi enabled computer too.

Now your video should be at 800x600 and you get no sound.

To fix that download and install this package:

special thanks to the guys at MSI Wind forums for this file.

This will fix your screen and sound.  Now you should get sound from the speakers and be able to use native screen resolution at 1024x600.