MSI Announces 15.6-inch AMD-Powered GX60 Gaming Laptop
Nov 12, 2012 03:20 PM EDT by 
Looking for a gaming laptop, but don’t want to kill your bank account? MSI may have what you seek. The company today announced its new 15.6-inch GX60 gaming rig and it packs a punch with everything a gamer could need for $1,300.
Inside this Windows 8 machine is 2.3-GHz quad-core AMD Trinity A10 processor, 8GB of 1600MHz RAM, and an AMD Radeon HD 7970M graphics chip with 2GB of RAM. Storage comes by way of a 750GB 7,200-rpm hard drive.
On the display front, the GX60 packs a razor sharp 1920 x 1080 15.6-inch screen. Connector ports include three USB 3.0 ports, one USB 2.0 port, an HDMI slot, a 5-in-1 card reader and the requisite microphone and headphone jacks. And since this isn’t an Ultrabook, the GX60 also includes a Blu-ray drive.
Measuring 14.9 x 10.2 x 1.7 inches and weighing 7.7 pounds, the GX60 is far from portable and we don’t exactly expect its 9-cell battery to be a marathon runner, but then gaming rigs never are.
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November 21st, 2012 at 10:08 am
please review this laptop. please…please
November 28th, 2012 at 5:23 pm
Gaming laptop….love that term. Doesn’t mean much today besides bragging about a graphics card. I need one with awesome video and audio to match. Hope their beefing up the sound on these things……would love to see some high-end audio, like the maxxaudio 4 or such, just to round it out. I’ll wait for the review…