Mesh - GX700 review

April 30, 2008

laptop and notebook Mesh - GX700 reviewGrid GX700 is a high-performance laptop that sits near the top of the current range of enterprise portable games, in fact, is second in performance only to the most expensive flagship GX700 Extreme.

The GX700 uses a high-end MSI chassis, and an attractive finish in a glossy piano black, and comes with a set of features that helps explain the price. With a 17-inch screen that is always going to have a footprint quite high (405 x 314 x 38.2mm), but surprisingly only weighs 2.6kg, even with the battery, so it is portable, to a point. But adding the adapter sends the maximum weight of 3.95kg, so this is a notebook designed to spend most of their lives plugged into the mains.

At the heart of the GX700 is an Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 CPU backed by Intel i965M chipset and 2 GB of DDR2 667 MHz memory (expandable to 4 GB for an additional period of £ 99). The T7250 is clocked at 2.0GHz with a 800 MHz FSB and 2MB of L2 cache, which gives the GX700 some impressive if not destroy the Earth-performance: a score of 5090 in PCMark05 means GX700 is quite capable of doing any thing to ask of it.

The full-size keyboard is well placed and recess at the top of the chassis and has a good quality feel to it. The keys are nice and positive, while pad keyboard itself is strong, without any visible flex. The trackpad is the same quality as the keyboard and has a vertical displacement.

Above the keyboard sit buttons for direct access silver wireless and power: not only are a contrasting colour to the chassis, are too big to lose.

The widescreen WSXGA + comes with a highly reflective coating that Crystal Vision, although the GX700 excellent color and detail, perfect for DVD’s, does reflect the lights in an office environment quite considerable. But the native resolution of 1680 by 1050 pixels gives some useful desktop real estate and you also get a 1.3-megapixel Web-cam built into the top of the screen surround.

Food production is a graphic Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT chipset that comes with 512MB of dedicated DDR3 memory, but is also able to access a maximum of 255MB of system memory for a total of 767MB. All of which gives the GX700 a fair degree of skill gaming, which is good considering that is what you are paying.

Produce results of 5735 and 3725 in 3DMark05 and 06, respectively, when tested in a 1024 by 768 pixels resolution, but more important is the average frame rate in fear; very playable 135fps in the same 1024 x 768 - resolution.

Mesh has equipped the GX700 with a span of 250 GB of storage space thanks to the SAT Western Digital hard drive. The unit is a job too quickly, with an 8 MB cache and a spin speed of 5400. To maintain this unit free of clutter there is a DVD recorder built into the left side of the chassis.

Joining the optical drive are two USB ports, while another can be found on the right side, along with VGA and HDMI ports. The rear panel has only LAN (Gigabit Ethernet) ports and modem together with the power at the port.

Built in the front chassis is a 4-in-1 card reader, 4-pin Firewire port and three audio ports for the 4.1 audio system. To speak with the outside world is obtained that Gigabit Ethernet wired, 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth and, if not all those who for some reason, the modem.

Apart from installing Vista Home Premium O / S, you get Microsoft Works 8.5 with a 60 day trial version of Office 2007 software and DVD

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