Amazon is now accepting orders for the MSI Wind. For $499 you can order the black model with Windows XP and a 3-cell battery. Amazon says the computer will ship within 3 to 5 weeks. While there are product pages for the white and pink models, you cannot preorder these versions yet. Or you could place an order directly from the MSI Shop where you'll apparently save $20. MSI is selling the same computer for $479.

The company dropped the price a bit when it made the decision to ship the Wind notebook with 3-cell batteries instead of 6, due to a global battery shortage. It's not clear why that price change isn't reflected at Amazon.

The MSI Shop gives an estimated ship date of July 7th. It's possible that Amazon is just being conservative with its 3 to 5week ship date. After all, the Wind was supposed to be available on June 16th, but that date has already been pushed back twice.

[via I4U News]

Asus is set to release the Eee PC 900 in the US tomorrow. But if you can't wait to get your order in, Amazon has launched pre-order pages for both the Linux and Windows XP models.

The Windows model sports 12GB of flash memory while the Linux version has 20GB. Otherwise, the two machines are pretty much identical. Both sell for $549. Only the pearl/white units are available right now, but expect to see black and other color options soon.

If that's more money than you're willing to spend, you can always pick up a refurbished Eee PC 701 for less than half the price. Or you can pre-order a CTL 2Go PC (Classmate 2) from Amazon. The Classmate featrues a 9 inch 800 x 480 pixel display, and a 40GB hard drive. The Windows version goes for $469, while you can get a Linux model for $399.

Update: The Eee PC 900 is now officially available.

[via EeeUser]