http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/ Engadget Comments for MSI ships 17-inch GX740, complete with Core i7 and Radeon HD 5870 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Jun 12th 2010 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/
I'd guess somewhere around 1.5 hours gaming and 2.5 hours of browsing and being energy conscious . . . that may be generous.

DDR5 RAM in the GPU is awesome and the price is reasonable, I suppose.

]]>Jun 12th 2010 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/To heck with the battery life, what's the 3dmark score? If it won't play games well there's no point in worrying how long you can do it for without a power cable. Considering the size if worse comes to worse you could get an external plate battery. It won't get that much bigger or heavier. The numbers I've been seeing on gaming laptops lately seem to un int the 8000 to 10000 range which is about on par with a 500$ home built desktop from 2006 or so equipped with a then new 8800gt. ]]>Jun 12th 2010 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/It runs COD: M21 on ULTRA HIGH... on an average 50 fps... in other words: WIN. WIN. WIN. WANT.

3DMark 05: 17932 ]]>Jun 12th 2010 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/
Well not quite there yet. My home built gaming PC from 2007 is running better than that. The good kicker is that I can just switch out the graphics card to upgrade it every 1-2 years for better performance. Although I don't have the mobility of a laptop. ]]>Jun 13th 2010 8:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/And thereinlies the cost. The price of mobility is ubelievable when you really take a look.]]>Jun 13th 2010 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Radeon 5870. Wow.
Mobility Radeon 5870? Sucks.

I'd love not to have these misleading titles.]]>Jun 14th 2010 9:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Jun 21st 2010 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Jun 12th 2010 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Actually 1399$ for a computer like this is a pretty great deal. It might just be the cheapest core i7/ 5870 combo on the market. Still not cheap though I guess...]]>Jun 12th 2010 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Jun 12th 2010 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Jun 12th 2010 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Jun 12th 2010 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/
Because we all know a "nice looking aluminum enclosure" is all that matters. It doesn't matter if jobs poops in it as long as the "nice looking aluminum enclosure" is there, right ?

^_^
]]>Jun 12th 2010 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.macvidia.com/]]>Jun 13th 2010 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Jun 12th 2010 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Jun 12th 2010 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/
The Toshiba Qosmio is even worst]]>Jun 12th 2010 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Jun 12th 2010 6:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/It's also cheaper than black plastic, apparently.]]>Jun 12th 2010 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/
IIRC, Red is the color of bridal dresses, and has the same cultural connotations as white does in the west, while White has the same connotations as black. I.e. death and mourningl Black is just a not very bright color, and since the choices for devices are normally black or white, they need something different. Samsung in particular has been going for reds and maroons in a big way with all it's electronics over the last several years.

Someone around here is going to know more about this than me though so feel free to speak up if you think I'm wrong. I may very well be.]]>Jun 12th 2010 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/
You're pretty much spot-on, but I don't think asian consumers care nearly as much as you think about the cultural connotations of red (or any other colour).

While geeks like us obsess over colours and benchmarks, it's more straightforward for others: It's a laptop. Not a car.]]>Jun 12th 2010 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/
Still waiting on the pricing of the recently sobered down RoG laptops]]>Jun 12th 2010 9:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Jun 13th 2010 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Jun 12th 2010 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Jun 12th 2010 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Hey buddy. You watch it. I will tranquilize you!]]>Jun 12th 2010 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Jun 12th 2010 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Jun 12th 2010 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/How much will those matter to someone who uses their laptop as a desktop replacement?]]>Jun 12th 2010 6:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/
They can fry eggs as well, these are completely different categories of products.]]>Jun 12th 2010 6:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Jun 12th 2010 6:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/
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http://www.droid-life.com/2010/06/12/comparison-motorola-droid-x-vs-htc-evo-4g-vs-iphone-vs-eris/

Anyway, the only reason I complain is because Engadget is where shit goes down!]]>Jun 12th 2010 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Jun 13th 2010 12:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Jun 12th 2010 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Jun 12th 2010 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Jun 12th 2010 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/
Quad and it overclocked itself up to 2.5ghz during hairy situation. Intel rocks!]]>Jun 12th 2010 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Jun 12th 2010 6:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Jun 12th 2010 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Jun 12th 2010 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Jun 12th 2010 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/
You schmucks...]]>Jun 12th 2010 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/
Desktop > Gaming notebook]]>Jun 12th 2010 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Jun 12th 2010 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Lets see...
Not everyone has room for a 1'x4'x4' tower.
Not everyone feels like or is capable of lugging around a monitor + speakers + keyboard + mouse + cables. Don't forget the tower itself.
Some people might like to have a computer that they can easily move from one location to another, even if the battery life is short.

Just because you can not see the point of it does not mean it should not exist.]]>Jun 12th 2010 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/12/msi-ships-17-inch-gx740-complete-with-core-i7-and-radeon-hd-587/Jun 12th 2010 6:28PM