MSI Megabook GX600

Notebook Specifications

Reviews for the MSI Megabook GX600

73% MSI Turbobook GX600 review
Source: CNet
The Turbobook GX600 is a mixed bag. It's great for anyone who does CPU-intensive work, as its overclocking feature works brilliantly and vastly improves core performance. Its graphics performance is rather average, however, so anyone who plays games might be better off with an Alienware M9750 or Dell XPS M1730.
7.3 von 10, Verarbeitung mangelhaft
Single Review, online available, Very Short, Date: 04/30/2008
Rating: Total score: 73% workmanship: 50%

65% MSI GX600 (Core 2 Duo T7300 2GHz, 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD, Vista Home Premium)
Source: CNet
The good: The MSI GX600 has a distinctive case design; slim profile; Turbo button gives slight performance boost; beautiful nonreflective display with a sharp resolution; Webcam; HDMI output; eSata connector; 802.11n support. The bad: Some half-size keys make typing difficult; pokey multitasking performance; frame rates suitable only to the casual gamer; mediocre battery life. The bottom line: The MSI GX600's snazzy case looks like a powerhouse gaming laptop, but its performance is better suited to the casual gamer.
6.5 von 10, Display gut, Leistung mangelhaft, Mobilität mangelhaft
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 12/17/2007
Rating: Total score: 65% performance: 50% display: 80% mobility: 50%

MSI GX600 Review
Source: Notebookreview.com
The MSI GX600 is a "compact" 15.4" gaming notebook with a 512MB NVIDIA 8600M GT graphics card, and an overclockable Intel T7300 Core 2 Duo processor. This notebook offers a wide range of ports including HDMI, e-SATA, MCX for TV-Antenna, VGA, S-Video, four USB ports, one Firewire port, and LAN/Modem jacks to cover almost any device you have laying around. Probably the coolest feature which I have not seen since my 20Mhz 486 desktop is a Turbo button to overclock the machine on the fly to bump the processor speed from 2.0GHz to 2.4GHz without a restart. As you might expect with most gaming notebooks, the MSI GX600 likes to be stick out in a crowd. With its glossy black finish, flame decals, and huge MSI logo front and center it really gets noticed compared to other notebooks. The only feature that seemed to be missing was big LEDs to light up the logo, which most lecturers will love not being in their classroom.
Emissionen sehr gut, Verarbeitung mangelhaft
User Review, online available, Long, Date: 11/16/2007
Rating: workmanship: 50% emissions: 90%

80% MSI GX600 Gaming Notebook (Intel Santa Rosa)
Source: Hardware Zone
What does it mean to be a gamer? This is a question that is probably best left to our colleagues over at GameAxis for an in-depth discussion, but an unmistakable trend is that computer and video games have gone mainstream now. The gaming audience as a whole has increased substantially, but it would seem from MSI's design that they're focusing on the younger. If you're a big fan of the Need for Speed series or Fast and Furious, the GX600 may appeal.
For most consumers, we find its design may be a little too loud and crass to be carrying around. Although MSI probably wanted to make it clear that the GX600 is really meant for gaming, in our opinion, the designers overdid it.

4 von 5, Leistung gut, Mobilität schlecht, Preis/Leistung zufriedenstellend
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 11/08/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 70% performance: 80% mobility: 40%

Foreign Reviews

80% Test MSI Megabook GX600 Notebook
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Long, Date: 06/02/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% performance: 82% display: 78% mobility: 71% workmanship: 78% ergonomy: 78% emissions: 84%

80% MSI GX600 Turbo + T9300
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Long, Date: 04/28/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 80% features: 50% display: 50% mobility: 30% workmanship: 60% ergonomy: 50% emissions: 40%

79% MSI Megabook GX600-7525HD Extreme (Notebook)
Source: Chip.de
online available, Short, Date: 02/04/2008
Rating: Total score: 79% performance: 93% features: 99% display: 83% mobility: 42% ergonomy: 75%

84% MSI GX600-7525VHP Extreme
Source: Gamestar
online available, Very Short, Date: 01/31/2008
Rating: Total score: 84% price: 80% performance: 80% features: 80%

Mobile Spiele
Source: WCM - 12/07
, Long, Date: 12/28/2007
Rating: performance: 90% display: 80% mobility: 70% workmanship: 80%

Notebook MSI
Source: Gamestar - 2/08
, Length Unknown, Date: 12/27/2007
Rating: performance: 80% features: 80%

Test: MSI Megabook GX 600
Source: PC Welt
online available, Medium, Date: 11/20/2007
Rating: price: 47% performance: 70% mobility: 41% ergonomy: 22%

90% Tribal-Gamer mit Turboloch - MSI GX600 - 7525HD Extreme
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Long, Date: 11/09/2007
Rating: Total score: 90% performance: 80% features: 50% display: 50% mobility: 60% workmanship: 50% ergonomy: 70%

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NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT: The NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT is the DirectX 10 capable successor of the GeForce Go 7600 GT GPU for laptops. Depending on the used graphic memory and the clock speed,  the performance is between the 7600 GT and 7900 GS video card.

These cards should be able to display all current games with fluent framerates but not all with high detail settings. Especially demanding games like Crysis, Age of Conan, or Mass Effect are only playable with lower settings. Less demanding (and older) games, like Fifa 08, Command & Conquer 3, or Battlefield 2142 can be played with higher detail levels.

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.

T9300:
>> 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.

2.71 kg: This weight is average for notebooks. Therefore the numerous mass of laptops with 15 inch display fits in 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.

MSI reviews

78.88%: This rating is not convincing. It must be considered, that there exist hardly any laptops, which receive a rating below 60%. This notebook is evaluated below average, this is not really a recommendation for purchase.

>> Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.