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Top 10 Gaming Laptops – May 2012

Top 10 Gaming Laptops – May 2012 This list is based on actual or estimated gaming performance, factoring in the hardware specification (particularly the graphics card) relative to the laptop’s size. May Update: The big news this month is that Intel has rolled out the new Ivy Bridge platform, but that’s not the most important [...]
What is an ODM (Original Design Manufacturer)?

Original design manufacturing refers to companies who produce a product that will later have a different company’s logo placed upon it. This is commonplace among laptop manufacturers and is a process used by most of the big names in the industry, although there are a few exceptions.
MSI GT60 and GT70 Unveiled

A whole bunch of new laptops with Intel Ivy Bridge processors and next-gen Nvidia/AMD GPUs have been unveiled at CeBIT in Germany this week.
MSI GT683DXR-423US Review

Guest Review by: Lin Xi Zhang Ever wanted a top of the line product without paying a top of the line price? That was what I had in mind when I set out to find a new gaming laptop.
4.16GHz MSI GT780DX Unveiled

Overclocking the processor in a gaming laptop is impressive, even if it doesn’t have such a major effect on gaming performance.
The External Graphics Card Reappears: MSI GUS II

Hooking up an external graphics card to your laptop is not a new idea. What’s new with the MSI GUS II (Graphics Update System II) is that it connects over the Thunderbolt interface. No wait, that isn’t new either, this was actually done with the latest Sony VAIO Z.
MSI GT783 (Also) ‘World’s Fastest Gaming Laptop’

Interestingly, there are quite a few laptops on the market right now that are the “world’s fastest gaming laptop”. You can be absolutely certain that it’s not the MSI GT783, however.
MSI Launches GT685 with GeForce GTX 580M

15.6-inch laptops with the world’s fastest mobile GPU aren’t exactly a dime a dozen. Actually there has just been one so far, so this release is far more interesting than, say, the overblown hype surrounding the Razer Blade.
How Much Video RAM Do I Need?

MSI has just issued another press release concerning its 17.3-inch GT780DX–the latest model from MSI, which looks very attractive in terms of specifications and pricing. The only news this time, however, seems to be that MSI has doubled the amount of video RAM available to the included NVIDIA GTX 570M from 1.5GB of GDDR5 to [...]
MSI GT780DX Coupon – $1,449.99

[Updated 12/22/11] The GT780DX-406US is the latest and most heavily equipped version of MSI’s 17-inch gaming rig. It comes with the latest Intel Sandy Bridge refresh–the quad-core i7 2670QM, which operates at 2.2GHz instead of 2.0GHz in its predecessor. In Turbo Boost mode it overclocks to 3.1GHz instead of 2.9GHz. The gaming graphics are handled by [...]
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