MSI Megabook GX620
Notebook Specifications
Notebook: MSI Megabook GX620 (Megabook G Series)Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo P7350
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
Display: 15.4 inch, 16:10, 1280x800 pixels, glossy: yes
Weight: 2.7kg
Price: 1000 euro
Average of 8 scores (from 13 reviews)
Reviews for the MSI Megabook GX620
Source: APC Mag
While it’s targeted at gamers, the extensive memory (4GB) and fast CPU make this a killer machine for demanding productivity applications. Unfortunately, it’s not quite the gaming powerhouse that MSI would have you believe, but for the more casual gamers out there it’ll do the job. Still, if we had two grand to blow and needed both a gaming machine and something we could take on the road, we'd be inclined to buy a budget laptop and a SFF PC for just a few dollars more.
von 10: 7, Preis 8, Ergonomie 7, Leistung 8
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 01/14/2009
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 80% performance: 80% ergonomy: 70%
Source: Star Techcentral
Buying a gaming notebook is always a balancing act — on the one hand, should one spend more money and get a major kick-butt gaming notebook, or spend just enough to get a machine that you can play some current games on. The problem is that no matter how good your gaming notebook is now, it’s not going to be able to play games that will be coming out a year-and-a-half from now. Such is the case for the MSI GX620 — in reality, it’s actually a good example of a very capable gaming notebook and one that can play most last-generation games well, but not all current generation games.
Display gut, Mobilität gut
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 11/27/2008
Rating: display: 80% mobility: 80%
Source: APC Mag
While it’s targeted at gamers, the extensive memory (4GB) and fast CPU make this a killer machine for demanding productivity applications. Unfortunately, it’s not quite the gaming powerhouse that MSI would have you believe, but for the more casual gamers out there it’ll do the job. Still, if we had two grand to blow and needed both a gaming machine and something we could take on the road, we'd be inclined to buy a budget laptop and a SFF PC for just a few dollars more.
(von 10): 7, Preis 8, Ergonomie 7, Leistung 8
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 11/21/2008
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 80% performance: 80% ergonomy: 70%
Source: Gadget Zone
Finally, the speaker quality is what you would expect from a notebook - pretty poor. However using the 7.1 channel SPDIF audio output and a good speaker system, the speaker quality is fairly trival. Besides, what self respecting gamer doesn’t use headphones anyway?
Leistung exzellent
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 09/05/2008
performance: 95%
Foreign Reviews
Source: mobile Zeit - 1/09
DE→EN, Length Unknown, Date: 01/01/2009
Rating: Total score: 65% price: 90% performance: 80% display: 50% ergonomy: 50%
Source: Notebookcheck
DE→ENonline available, Long, Date: 12/26/2008
Rating: Total score: 85% price: 80% performance: 95% display: 79% mobility: 76% workmanship: 88% ergonomy: 78% emissions: 86%
Source: Notebookinfo
DE→ENonline available, Medium, Date: 12/02/2008
Rating: Total score: 82% performance: 83% features: 80% display: 80% mobility: 74% workmanship: 86%
Source: Notebookjournal
DE→ENonline available, Long, Date: 09/29/2008
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 80% performance: 90% features: 50% display: 30% mobility: 60% workmanship: 70% ergonomy: 70% emissions: 90%
Source: Notebookjournal
DE→ENonline available, Medium, Date: 09/11/2008
Rating: price: 90% performance: 80% features: 100% display: 70% mobility: 60% workmanship: 60% ergonomy: 60%
Source: Computer Totaal
NL→ENonline available, Short, Date: 10/29/2008
performance: 60%
Source: Laptopy.info.pl
PL→ENonline available, Long, Date: 04/21/2009
Rating: Total score: 76% performance: 86% display: 46% mobility: 30%
Source: NotebookTV.hu
HU→ENonline available, Medium, Date: 06/20/2009
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 100% performance: 80% display: 100% mobility: 70% workmanship: 80% ergonomy: 80% emissions: 70%
Source: Nonstop Mobil
HU→ENonline available, Medium, Date: 03/22/2009
Rating: performance: 80% display: 50%
Comment
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT: Successor of the 8600M GT and because of the smaller 65nm production process the card is higher clocked (and therefore faster) with the same current consumption.Furthermore, it features an improved video processor (VP3) and HybridPower to save current (in conjunction with the 9100M G).
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.
>> 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.
P7350:
>> 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. Nowadays, more and more 16:9 displays with 15.6 inch appear. 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 energy and the laptops can be kept quite compact.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2.7 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: Micro-Star International (MSI), is a Taiwan based computer hardware manufacturer since 1986 best known for desktop computer motherboards. MSI also designs and manufactures graphics cards, barebone PCs, notebook computers, networking products, servers, multimedia, consumer electronics, and storage devices. MSI, as most Taiwanese computer manufacturers, sells products on OEM/ODM basis. It also sells products worldwide based on its own brand name "MSI". The market share of laptops with the MSI brand is rather low.
77.25%: 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.
