Okay now this is a past from the blast, a piece of history, a reminder of the good old computers in the seventies. You guessed what it is yet? Yeah, it’s a turbo button. The screen at first looks nice and pleasant but once you start to use it you realise quality isn’t its forte. It uses an Intel T8300 CPU running, without pressing the turbo button, at 2.4GHz. The keyboard and touchpad don’t stack up either really. The enter button and right shift key and to small and the cursor buttons are so small you might as well have paid extra to get rid of them. I’m not even going to go into detail about how the touchpad is to wide and is a nuisance which always makes its presence known. All I will say is disable the touchpad and get yourself an external mouse.
Overall this laptop is a mixture. It comes packed with all sorts but doesn’t have a battery life to support it. It boasts a turbo button that frankly isn’t really needed, even without it the laptop runs quietly and smoothly and even with it booting time is the same. Unless you are doing CPU-intensive work, then I would advise you to purchase something slightly better. This laptop comes with a turbo button along with everything else it has to offer such as a 15.4” screen. The screen at first looks nice and pleasant but once you start to use it you realise quality isn’t its forte. It uses an Intel T8300 CPU running, without pressing the turbo button, at 2.4GHz.
Yet if that formula 1 racing type turbo button tempts you enough this laptop can move up to 2.8GHz. Now that sounds like heaven but it is too good to be true because you can only use your boost if you’re connected to the mains. Wait it gets worse, the 3GB of memory of the GeForce 8600M GT graphics card can’t be boosted in the same way.
The design of the laptop is just like its features. You think you have something brilliant but you look deeper and realise you’re wrong. With the lid closed, you’ve guessed it, it looks very nice. Once you open it, well I’m sorry, it all goes down hill. It goes down hill fast.
The keyboard and touchpad don’t stack up either really. The enter button and right shift key and to small and the cursor buttons are so small you might as well have paid extra to get rid of them. I’m not even going to go into detail about how the touchpad is to wide and is a nuisance which always makes its presence known. All I will say is disable the touchpad and get yourself an external mouse.
It isn’t all bad news don’t worry the laptop comes with a number of input-output ports. It comes with four USB ports, two on each side and three separate video outputs: D-Sub, S-Video and HDMI. To accompany these three video outputs it also has front facing audio jacks making it that slightly bit more convenient to hook up your microphone and headphones/speakers. Wait it also as a DVD rewriter – it isn’t that bad then is it? They have also included a 1.3 mega pixel webcam, like usual, just above the screen and an optional freeview TV tuner. Along with all of this it has wireless internet to be precise it comes with 802.11b/g and the high-speed Draft-N wireless.
To accompany all of this you’d expect a long battery life. A battery life that would ensure you could tire yourself out before your companion decided to turn its self out but MSI thought differently. This laptop has a meager hour and a half battery life.
Overall this laptop is a mixture. It comes packed with all sorts but doesn’t have a battery life to support it. It boasts a turbo button that frankly isn’t really needed, even without it the laptop runs quietly and smoothly and even with it booting time is the same. Unless you are doing CPU-intensive work, then I would advise you to purchase something slightly better.
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