Posted on Wednesday, January 05 2011 @ 17:31 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
MSI introduced new Sandy Bridge laptops at CES 2011:
MSI 2011 NOTEBOOKS: SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE
The G Series – World's Fastest Gaming Notebooks
The MSI R&D team worked hand in hand with world-class gamers to develop the new G Series that truly exceeds gamers' needs. The new, powerful GT780, GT680, GE620 and GR620 notebooks will all come packed with the much anticipated second generation Intel® Core™ i7 quad core processor, and USB 3.0 ports that enable lightening fast transfer speeds and connections with external hard drives or handheld electronics.
GT780 and GT680: The 17.3 inch GT780 and 15.6 inch GT680 feature advanced DirectX 11-ready nVidia GeForce GTX 500 Series and 400 Series graphics cards along with Dynaudio speakers, delivering both advanced graphics performance and true-to-life sound quality. MSI also incorporates its own Turbo Drive Engine (TDE) technology which instantly throttles up system speeds to deliver one of the fastest, most powerful gaming notebooks in the world. In addition to accelerated dual SSD storage, the GT680 also includes 4 SO-DIMM DDR3 memory slots to boost system memory capacity to 16GB.
GR620 and GE620: The 15.6 inch GR620 and GE620 are designed for casual gamers who can now go into battle knowing that they are packing the most powerful hardware available, including nVidia GeForce GT Series discrete graphics cards.
The GT680 will ship in late January, with a base price of $1,499.99; the GT780 is slated to ship in Q2 2011.
The F Series – The Fusion of Fashion and Performance
The all-new MSI F Series notebooks are the ultimate blend of chic design and powerful performance. Packed with Intel second generation Core processors and GMA3000 display chips, Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 and Intel Hyper-Threading technology, the F Series automatically adapts to the task at hand, increasing its performance and enhancing your multimedia experience. MSI will display several F Series models at CES 2011, including the 17.6 inch FX720 and FR720, and 15.6 inch FX620 and FR620 models featuring the latest Intel Core i7 processor . The smallest form factor of the F Series, the 14-inch FX420, is powered by the Intel Core i5 processor, designed to provide performance at a slightly lower price point.
To enable high performance graphics processing capabilities, the FX420, FX620, and FX720 units include discrete graphics modes, which support DirectX 11's high performance NVIDIA GeForce GT 500 Series discrete graphics card with 1GB DDR3 of display memory Additionally, MSI's GPU Boost technology provides automatic graphics switching, so when processing high load graphics applications, the GPU Boost technology switches to the discrete graphics card for powerful performance to maximize your multimedia entertainment experience.
The new F Series models are scheduled to launch in Q1 2011, priced from $699.99.
