MSI Megabook PR600

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Reviews for theMSI Megabook PR600

60%Review: MSI PR600 notebook computer
Source: vnunet.com (English)
The PR600 includes a carry case, two-year warranty that covers parts and labour around the world (if you’re on the UK mainland, it also offers a collect-and-return service). At £699, it’s a fairly reasonable deal - you do get a powerful workhorse computer and the battery life is good. But you’re not really getting anything spectacular for the money, and if you are partial to playing the occasional game you should look for a laptop with a dedicated graphics card. It’s extremely portable despite its size, but the PR600 isn’t up to much otherwise.
(von 5): 3, Ausstattung 3, Leistung 4, Preis/Leistung 3, Mobilität gut
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 01/03/2008
Rating: Total score: 60% price: 60% performance: 80% features: 60% mobility: 80%

Foreign Reviews

86%MSI PR600-7212DL
Source: Computerbild - 26/07 (German)
, Very Short, Date: 12/28/2007
Rating: Total score: 86% price: 90% performance: 88% features: 75% display: 87% mobility: 86% ergonomy: 75% emissions: 93%

80%MSI PR600 7112VHPE - Leistung fürs Büro
Source: Notebookjournal (German)
online available, Long, Date: 10/09/2007
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 70% features: 50% display: 30% mobility: 50% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 80% emissions: 90%

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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.

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.

2.7 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: 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.

75.33%: 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.