MSI TURBOBOOK GX600 REVIEW - THE NEW VERSION IS OUT

The MSI Turbobook GX600 has a in built turbo button that the producer says can spontaneously boost its performance by as much as 20 per cent, and cut boot times by approximately 50 per cent. But does it really work? Are there any drawbacks? Let’s peep in to reveal the secrets of the revamped GX600.

Design
The Turbobook GX600 looks drooling with the hood closed. The lustrous black finish gives it a modern neat looks that is in line with what the rest of the competitors seem to be doing at the current time. Unexpectedly, it all goes to pot when you open the hood. The turbo button, dressed in the dodgy silver paneling and the off switch located at the top right of the notebook. Software is comparatively scarce, but you are provided with a copy of Windows Vista Home Premium edition.

Performance
With a tag like 'MSI Turbobook GX600', you'd look out for this notebook to be drastically quick. It does by no means can be compared to the fastest we've seen, especially when it comes to the gamer attitude, but it's fast enough to keep in line with the quickest Centrino notebooks on the market.

Its 3D gaming agility isn't as qualitative, though. It just scampered very little in 3DMark testing circuits, and striking the turbo button doesn’t make much difference with turbo enabled, it scores less impressive scores too. For a comparison, the current breeds of high-end gaming notebooks will score at around twice as much as the GX600.

The keyboard and mouse are designed to be a useful performer, but actually they're totally tricky to get to grips with. MSI also contains a 1.3-megapixel webcam just above the display, and an optional free view TV tuner card, sad to mention our review sample didn't contain the latter. Battery sprint life on the Turbobook GX600 isn't specifically inspiring, but then we never projected it to be. The sprinting pace just manages 1 hour 5 minutes in our intensive Battery Eater test.

Conclusion
The Turbobook GX600 is a jumbled bag. It's encouraging for anyone who does CPU-intensive work, as it’s over clocking feature works amazingly and vastly accelerates core performance. The GX 600 is a new kid with the old tag line.

Pros
+ Just as the same old GX-600.
+ 3MB Ram is good addition

Cons
- Turbo switch doesn’t boost much
- Battery life pathetic
- Gaming attitude is poor.

Value For Money

Our Rating

MSI GX600 – CHARACTERISTIC LAPTOP

Notebooks vary form each other. The uniqueness in every laptop makes the difference. The latest laptop, MSI GX600 has a characteristic case design and a slim profile. The Turbo button proffers slight performance boost and the stunning non reflective display with a very good resolution leads to have an impact. Webcam, HDMI output eSata connector etc are additional features. Though some half-size keys difficult to type, they are manageable. The battery life is in a way good for the normal work.

The Processor is 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7300. The important part of any system, be it human or machine the Memory ranges up to 2GB of 667MHz. The Hard drive is capable of 250GB at 5,400rpm. The Graphics is put forth by 512MB Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT. The Chipset is Intel PM965 Express, whereas the Operating system is Windows Vista Home Premium. The Dimensions in terms like wide x deep x thick will be 14.1x10.2x1.3 inches. The screen is diagonal and the size is 15.4 inches. The System weighs 6.0 pounds without adapter and 7.7 pounds with it. Thus MSI GX600 laptop is a classy and snazzy looking laptop, which resembles the powerhouse gaming laptop. The performance is also equally good.

You can find our MSI GX600 gaming laptop review here

MSI GX600 GAMING LAPTOP REVIEW

Introduction
What all gamers want is a gamer laptop so they can easily take it under the arm and go to a lan party instead of driving their huge stationary PC. The question is has MSI finally made the perfect gaming laptop? We took a closer look and found many good and a few downsides with the machine.

Design
Overall the design is okay but you can clearly see that this is a gamer PC, and should be used only for gamers. Gamers are often young people and they would probably find the design awesome with flames next to the mouse pad and a huge “turbo button” etc. However I find the design more childish then cool and I think they overdone it a little bit. Up to the right you will see a speaker grill colored in red and a big Turbo button that increase the computers performance from 2 Ghz to 2,4 GHz. The quality of the keyboard and mouse pad is great the only bad thing here are the small buttons on the keyboard especially f1-f12 buttons. If you got chubby fingers you will have a hard time pressing these.







MSI GX600 TURBO BUTTON








Performance
The MSI GX600 Gaming laptop did actually quite good and when you press the turbo button the performance of the CPU increases with 20% and that helps a lot when you use programs and games that sucks up a lot of CPU power. On PCMark 05 we got 5600 score points with the turbo button on, once we switched it off and did the test again we got only 4900 score points.

For games the Turbo button won’t make a huge difference because of games today depends more on a good graphic card. On Unreal 3 Demo in 1024x768 we got an average FPS of 31 with no turbo and 30 FPS with the turbo switched on. This is fully playable but if you want higher resolution you may notice some lag here and there.

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