OC3D Review: MSI GX600 TurboBook Gaming Notebook

[JN]

"Fancy some gaming on the go without having to haul around that desktop PC? Maybe MSI have the answer...."

MSI GX600 TurboBook Review

 

[Phoenix]

Great review, Jim, but as stated, the design looks rather poor. Although it performs, I'd probably check around for other alternatives before settling with this one. But then again, I tend to go for bigger HDD's, screens and such, as it is a notebook.

 

[Rastalovich]

I have a feeling the 7200rpm drives generally use more power - I judge that merely by having replaced some 5400rpms with them and noticing a great deal more heat. They work well enough tho.

Have to be honest, the design looks pretty cheap to me and the specs, although looking pretty good with the benchies don`t push me towards wanting to part with £850 for one.

Flimsy feeling case - for a gamer - it should be shrouded in rubber and polystrene black-taped to it (probably wouldn`t help with the heat tho lol)

Don`t like these turbo-boost ideas either. I can remember turbo buttons on old pcs.

Bet it works a treat tho, as per the great review. (I`d buy the Acer with the lesser spec tbh, or look for a newer spec`d Acer)

 

[Ham]

Im impressed that it nearly reached 3ghz!

 

[Mr. Smith]

Gaming + notebook = FAIL. If you want to play games at decent res/settings you need a desktop.

Quite impressed with the CPU OC though

 

[ionicle]

if i was going to buy a laptop, i would buy a dell, as their build quality is better

this doesnt offer a very good spec, or a very good build quality for the price it seems

good review though

 

[w3bbo]

Great review as per usual Jim.

 

[FarFarAway]

Ya know I think actually it's a decent enough laptop with decent power. Shame the build quality lets it down a little

 

[Lynx]

Im going to collage in January, this will probably be the laptop i get.

Anyone else know of any cheaper laptops capable of playin css on there max res?

Looking for 2gigs of ram, atleast 250gb hd, dualcore 2ghz minimum.

17" would be nice.

(thats what she said)

 

[zak4994]

Epic thread revival.

 

[ToeJam]

Epic thread revival.

haha indeed, still for gaming i would want a desktop