Notebook of week 36, MSI GT780DX

[mobilenvidia]

The MSI GT780DX to me looks like a nice all round good machine, not over the top but can still kick butt.

Not seen a Notebook where an SSD is standard for speed along with a HDD for volume.

The Geforce GTX570M should handle anything out at the moment.

I doubt battery life will be all that great, if it comes with a 180w AC adaptor.

I personally would go for the full 1080p LCD and backlit keyboard

At around US$1550 for base model this is going to set you back quite a bit.

But the US$ being so low, in reality non US buyers are getting a good deal.

I could quite easily see me using this or possibly it's 15.6" sibling.

Specifications:

CPU - Intel® Core™ i7-2630QM Processor (6M Cache, 2.00 GHz)

OS - Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium (MSI recommends upgrade to Genuine Windows® 7 Professional) Chipset - Intel HM67

Memory - DDR3 ,1066/1333 MHz ,Slot : 4

LCD Size - 17.3" Full HD (1920x1080) or HD+ (1600x900) LED backlight

Graphics - nVidia GeForce GTX 570M

Graphics VRAM - 1.5GB GDDR5

HDD (GB) - 750GB SATA 7200rpm+ Intel 120GB SSD

500GB SATA 7200rpm+ Intel 120GB SSD

Optical Drive - Blu-ray / DVD Super Mult

Audio - 2.1 channels speakers, Sound by Dynaudio, THX TruStudio Pro, 7.1ch output

Webcam - HD type (30fps@720p)

Card Reader - SD(XC/HC)/MMC/MS(PRO)/xD

LAN - 10/100/1000

Wireless LAN - 802.11 b/g/n

Bluetooth - Bluetooth v3.0 + HS

D-Sub (VGA) - HDMI 1 (v1.4)

USB 2.0 port - 3

USB 3.0 port - 2

eSATA - 1

Mic-in/Headphone-out - 1/1

Line-in - 1(line in)/1(line out)

Keyboard - 102-key keyboard by SteelSeries, LED backlight(optional)

AC Adapter - 180W

Battery - 9 cells

Power Management -Turbo Battery+

Dimension - 428 x 288 x 55mm(WxDxH)

Weight(KG) - 3.9

[Kamika007z]

This is a nice looking machine!

What I would love to see are more 14.1" notebooks that have great nVidia chipsets to choose from! :)

I'm still on my 14.1" modded T61p sporting an nVidia Quadro FX 570M.