MSI's Turbo Drive-equipped GX723 gaming laptop unveiled

Looking for another option in MSI's oft-ballyhoed Turbo Drive laptop series? The company's announced the GX723, its gaming hat trick for the month. Under the hood, the 17-inch, WSXGA+ portable's packing an Intel Core 2 Duo, NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M, Windows Vista Home Premium, up to 4GB of RAM, and your choice of 320GB or 500GB HDD and six / nine cell batteries. It's also got the ECO quick launch touch sensor for cycling through five performance settings, and colorful W/A/S/D buttons for gamers who are interested in picking this up but somehow don't have the popular FPS directional keys ingrained into their memory bank. Mum's the word on pricing or availability.

[Oli D Posted May 17th 2009 10:43AM]

I read that "Six Nine Cell batteries"

That thing would be playing crisis from now to the apocolypse

[y3knik Posted May 17th 2009 10:45AM]

You forgot its a gaming laptop.. so really, apocalypse is only 20 minutes away instead of the usual 5 minutes in this case

[Oli D Posted May 17th 2009 10:51AM]

I saw a Core i7 laptop at Novatech once, that thing must eat through battery like crazy, the TDP is 130W!

[bluefootedboobies Posted May 17th 2009 11:35AM]

Who cares about this laptop?

What I want to know is when the (ATI) 4860m equipped machines are going to start appearing. Massively higher performance and similar or lower power draw to the GT130.

[1 Posted May 17th 2009 11:58AM]

This one: http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/range.html?t=nb&c=gaming&r=X9R ? If only I had £2.5k sat around

[Oli D Posted May 17th 2009 12:07PM]

Thats the girl, although for it to be truly mobile you need to spend another couple of thousand on a good portable diesel generator...

[(Unverified) Posted May 17th 2009 11:00AM]

HP HDX 18t FTW!

[xtian63 Posted May 17th 2009 11:02AM]

so this 130m is gona be way less that the ATI 4850 on the GT 725 right?

STOP THE BLEEDING!!!

the lcd bleed is really killing MSi's G series

[(Unverified) Posted May 17th 2009 11:07AM]

This thing barely touches the specs of my 3 year old M1710 from DELL. Plus my Dell looks a hell of a lot better.

[seamonkey420 Posted May 17th 2009 11:23AM]

why don't these gaming laptops have a freaking huge touchpad????

so sad to see such small touchpads on them, impossible to game w/that limited space.

just my .02

[(Unverified) Posted May 17th 2009 11:39AM]

Unless you're playing an rpg, I don't think you're going to want to use a touch pad.

[(Unverified) Posted May 17th 2009 11:40AM]

Actually I own a similar model (GX630-028US) and the trackpad is big enough. Take a look at the keyboard which it has the number pad as well.

My qualm with the GX laptop like mine is that it only lasts up to 2 hours depending on what mode you're on.

[(Unverified) Posted May 17th 2009 11:27AM]

yaaaaaaaaaawwwn.....someone wake me up when there's real news.

[(Unverified) Posted May 17th 2009 12:19PM]

Anyone know if that 130M is any good?

[(Unverified) Posted May 17th 2009 12:38PM]

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-130M.13789.0.html

[(Unverified) Posted May 17th 2009 2:41PM]

Crysis on high ---> 17 fps?

Meh.

[(Unverified) Posted May 17th 2009 12:20PM]

...the pope has been shot...

[nikster Posted May 17th 2009 12:21PM]

Turbo anything FTW

[(Unverified) Posted May 17th 2009 12:42PM]

does anyone have any idea what the price is going to be? i wanted to buy the GX620, but if this one is in the same price range i might consider raising my budget a bit.

[(Unverified) Posted May 17th 2009 12:51PM]

Hmmm..

Model: Sager NP5797 (Built on Clevo M570TU)

Display: 17" WSXGA+ Glossy (1680x1050)

CPU: Core 2 Duo P8600 2.4GHz

RAM: 2048 MB DDR3 1066MHz

HDD: 250GB 5400RPM SATA/150

nVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 280M with 1GB DDR3 Video Memory

$1,641.24

http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np5797-custom-notebook-built-clevo-m570etu-back-ordered-until-late-march-p-2540.html

beats any MSI Turbo config....no contest..

[Anticrawl Posted May 17th 2009 3:49PM]

Only 2GB of DDR3 ram? Weak. And that resolution is too low for a 17"

[Anticrawl Posted May 17th 2009 3:51PM]

Not to mention the P8600 is a bottleneck. Why not go for the P9900 at 25w? And a 5400RPG harddrive? You have got to be fucking kidding me. Terrible configuration.

[bluefootedboobies Posted May 17th 2009 4:32PM]

Wait for the ATI 4860M based ones ... they'll consume less than half the juice of the NV GT280 series, also much less than than GT260 and either match or outperform the GTX280. The GTX280 is a 3 or 4 generations old chip which has had its die shrunk, been overclocked and had faster memory tacked on. It's an absolute dinosaur. The 4860M is a genuine (40nm) current generation chip, and should have very similar performance to the 47xx desktop chips.

[broken89 Posted May 17th 2009 4:40PM]

the GT130M is fairly weak. Have to play COD5 with all settings on the lowest :(

[(Unverified) Posted May 17th 2009 6:38PM]

Nice little notebook..I like minds better....http://whollysblog.com/

[(Unverified) Posted May 17th 2009 7:42PM]

Sounds like this thing doesn't beat my new Asus G50 :) GeForce 9800m in a laptop for $900. Awesome.

Just put Windows 7 on it. Vista 64 almost made me return it until I found that 7 fixed all my problems.

[(Unverified) Posted May 18th 2009 1:59AM]

would prefer the alienware over this.

[(Unverified) Posted May 18th 2009 2:29AM]

No kidding?...find me a price config ratio to sager NP5797 on a $1,600+ range with the same specs...

Actually Alienware also uses ( Clevo Chassis )..but sager charges less...

Sager NP5797 Custom Notebook (Built on Clevo M570ETU)
Intel® QX9300 45nm "Montevina" Core™2 Quad 2.53GHz w/12MB L2 On-die cache - 1066MHz FSB (Overclockable up to approx. 3.0GHz!)
17" WUXGA "Glare Type" Super Clear Ultra Bright Glossy Screen (1920x1200)
nVidia GeForce GTX 280M 1,024MB PCI-Express DDR3 DX10 (User Upgradeable)
8,192MB DDR3 1066MHz Dual Channel Memory (2 SODIMMS)
320GB 7200RPM (Serial-ATA II 300 - 16MB Cache)

One more thing...on the price-config ratio..this one is user upgradable..CPU, Video card...

[OLight Posted May 18th 2009 3:38PM]

The excellent is the Engrish in the article. Go now!