MSI Megabook EX600
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: MSI Megabook EX600Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T5250
Graphics Adapter: ATI Radeon Xpress X1270
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels
Weight: 2.6kg
Links: MSI homepage MSI notebook section Megabook EX600 (Model)
Average Score: 68.67% - average
Average of 3 scores (from 5 reviews)
mobility: 51%, workmanship: 75%, ergonomy: 59%, emissions: 89%
Reviews for theMSI Megabook EX600
Foreign Reviews
Burgunderrot?
Source: WCM - 1/08 (German)
, Medium, Date: 12/31/2007
Rating: price: 70% performance: 40% workmanship: 80%
MSI EX600: Allrounder mit Pfiff
Source: e-media - 21/07 (German)
, Medium, Date: 11/16/2007
Rating: performance: 60% display: 50% workmanship: 60%
50%Test: MSI Megabook EX600
Source: PC Welt (German)
online available, Medium, Date: 11/09/2007
Rating: Total score: 50% price: 50% performance: 54% features: 80% mobility: 22% workmanship: 70% ergonomy: 29%
86%Farbenfroh
Source: Computerbild - 22/07 (German)
, Medium, Date: 10/15/2007
Rating: Total score: 86% price: 80% performance: 88% features: 79% display: 87% mobility: 80% ergonomy: 79% emissions: 89%
70%MSI EX600YA 5226VHP Deep Blue - Allrounder in tiefem Blau
Source: Notebookjournal (German)
online available, Long, Date: 10/08/2007
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 80% performance: 20% features: 50% display: 30% mobility: 50% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 70%
Comment
ATI Radeon Xpress X1270:
Only older games can be played fluently with these graphics chips (if they were not too demanding). Shared memory graphic cores in this category got the advantage of less heat production and longer battery runtimes. For office, internet, image processing, and video editing tasks these graphics chips are still useable without any restrictions.
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Core 2 Duo: This is the Core Duo and Core Solo successor with a longer pipeline and 5-20% more speed without more power consumption. As an addition to the Core Duo design there exists a fourth decoder, an amplified SSE-unit and an additional arithmetical logical unit (ALU).
The Core 2 Duo for laptops is identical to the desktop Core 2 Duo processors but the notebook-processors work with lower voltages (0.95 to 1188 Volt) and a lower Frontside bus clock (1066 vs 667 MHz). The performance of equally clocked notebooks is 20-25% lower than Desktop PCs because of the lower Frontside bus clock and the slower hard disks.
T5250:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
15.4": 15 inch display-variants are the standard and are used for more than the half of all notebooks. 15.4 inch display with 16:10 are the standard for notebook displays.
The reason why so many people like displays with medium size is, that this size is not exhausting for the eyes, does not need too much current and the laptops can be kept quite compact.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2.6 kg: This notebook is lighter than the average of all notebooks. It is too heavy for sub-notebooks. 14 inch displays are normal for this class of weight.
MSI: MSI is known as a notebook manufacturer MSI since 2005 and sells its mobile computers worldwide, but with modest market shares. Nevertheless considerable amounts of reviews are available for MSI-notebooks. Up to now, the price-value ratings resulted well and led to top ratings in this category.
68.67%: This rating is bad. Most notebooks are better rated. This is not a recommendation for purchase.
>> Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
