MSI Megabook PR200

Notebook Specifications

Reviews for the MSI Megabook PR200

MSI MegaBook PR200X
Source: Inside HW
Emerge of Intel’s Centrino platform marked the beginning of huge breakthrough of portable computers. Mainly owing to Centrino, developed countries record almost equal number of sold desktop and portable computers. Of course, not everything went well. Enormous funds were invested in marketing which, for starters had to eliminate prejudice regarding direct connection of processor operating speed and its performances, pursuant insist of Intel up to this point. With its advance architecture, Pentium M managed to compensate difference in Megahertz comparing to popular Pentium 4. Main advantage brought by Pentium M was reduced consumption, owing to which notebooks become thinner and slighter (less heat dissipation – smaller and lighter cooling system, with significantly improved autonomy). It turned out to be a right move and Intel took leadership position on the market of portable computers.
Preis/Leistung mäßig
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 10/10/2007
Rating: price: 60%

4 Hot Multimedia Notebooks Reviewed
Source: Tom's Guide
In terms of portability, value and usability, the MSI PR200 is more impressive than its benchmark results probably suggest. After a month of working with the machine - during which time we even took it on the road - we even got a little bit attached to it. Students or younger professionals who have to temper their hardware lust with budgetary limits will find a lot to like about this machine, whose overall performance is more than adequate for most workaday tasks, and completely acceptable for viewing conventional DVDs.
Preis/Leistung gut, Leistung gut, Mobilität gut, Ergonomie gut
Comparison, online available, Very Long, Date: 10/08/2007
Rating: price: 80% performance: 80% mobility: 80% ergonomy: 80%

80% MSI PR200 Notebook (Intel Santa Rosa)
Source: Hardware Zone
In the end, the MSI PR200 is more of a workhorse notebook. It has some nice touches for the business user but if you're looking for glamour and refinement, this doesn't match up to some of the bigger brands yet. Add to that the expected competitive pricing (our reviewed configuration would retail at about S$2109), and it should find a home among users who aren't too demanding. For an even lower price point of this 12-inch widescreen business notebook, MSI also has the PR210 model that's based on the AMD Turion 64 X2 processor and the AMD M690T chipset that has an integrated Radeon X1270 graphics engine. Identical to the PR200 in every other manner, such a configuration could easily save a couple of hundred dollars or more depending on the final configuration if you don't mind the AMD platform.
4 von 5, Preis/Leistung gut
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 06/25/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80%

Foreign Reviews

Vier edle Subnotebooks im Test
Source: Netzwelt
online available, Medium, Date: 07/24/2008
Rating: mobility: 50%

MSI Megabook PR200: Klein, aber oho
Source: Tom's Hardware - 7/08
, Length Unknown, Date: 07/01/2008
Rating: price: 80% performance: 70% mobility: 50%

69% EEEiner gegen alle
Source: Chip.de - 6/08
, Long, Date: 06/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 69% price: 80% performance: 93% features: 73% display: 68% mobility: 55% ergonomy: 75%

93% Büro to go
Source: TV Movie Multimedia - 3/08
, Length Unknown, Date: 02/01/2008
Rating: Total score: 93% price: 90% mobility: 80%

Altbekannter Neuling
Source: Notebook / Organizer / Handy - 1-2/08
, Length Unknown, Date: 12/12/2007
Rating: performance: 80% ergonomy: 50%

78% MSI PR200-7325
Source: PC Go
online available, Very Short, Date: 12/07/2007
Rating: Total score: 78% performance: 80% mobility: 60% workmanship: 80%

70% Notebook oder PC? - Notebooks bis 1.299 Euro
Source: PC Praxis - 1/08
, Length Unknown, Date: 12/07/2007
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 70% mobility: 95%

90% MSI PR200 - Office-Riese im Subnotebook-Pelz
Source: Notebookjournal
online available, Long, Date: 09/12/2007
Rating: Total score: 90% performance: 80% features: 50% display: 50% mobility: 70% workmanship: 70% ergonomy: 70%

MSI PR200. Diseño, movilidad y precio en equilibrio perfecto
Source: Hispazone
online available, Medium, Date: 01/31/2008
Rating: price: 80% features: 80% workmanship: 80%

77% MSI PR200
Source: PCM
online available, Very Short, Date: 10/09/2007
Rating: Total score: 77% price: 80% performance: 77% mobility: 82% workmanship: 75% ergonomy: 60%

80% MSI means Business - MSI Mega Book PR200 test
Source: Hardware.info
online available, Medium, Date: 08/28/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 80% features: 80%

Comment

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) X3100 is an integrated (onboard) graphic chip on a Mobile Intel 965GM chipset. It is the successor of GMA 950 and features a fully programmable pipeline (supports Aero Glass fully and DirectX 10 with newest drivers). The peformance of the X3100 is clearly better than the GMA 950, still demanding modern games won't run fluently.

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.

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.

T7100:
>> Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

12.1": This is the most common display format for subnotebooks and an average size for subnotebooks.
The advantage is, that the subnotebook can be small dimensioned and can be carried easily. Further the tiny display has the advantage, that it needs less power, which improves the battery runtime and in consequence the mobility. The disadvantage is that reading of texts is very exhausting vor the eyes. High resolutions can hardly be used.
>> To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

1.8 kg: These sub-notebooks weight less than the average of all notebooks, but represent a heavier class of weight among the sub-notebooks. 12 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.

MSI reviews

79.63%: 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.