IFA Go here for an update to this story.

Technology company MSI resorted to overwhelming force - well, one armed, shaven-headed security goon - to curtail a casual visit to its IFA booth by a Register Hardware reporter.

MSI at IFA: keep your filthy hands off my netbook

And all we wanted to do was ask about the Wind netbook's battery life.

We didn't get to put out questions - we'd barely stepped onto the stand when a couple of suits barked at us in German to get the heck off it, while the company's paramilitaries steered us back onto the show floor.

Is that a gun in your pocket or are... oh, it is a gun

Alas, our German wasn't up to enquiring about the nature of the heightened circumstances that warranted such a show of force - or to ask under what conditions the guards would feel it to deploy their hefty sidearms.

Worried about punters seeking out six-cell power packs, perhaps...

Nothing to see here, move on

IFA 2008 complete coverage

Related Mini Laptop Reviews
Advent 4211
Acer Aspire One A110
MSI Wind

Asus Eee PC 901
Vye mini-v S37B
Asus Eee PC 900