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MSI launches GX403 14in notebook with 'proper' graphics

by Tarinder Sandhu on 14 April 2009, 12:02

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MSI has unveiled its smallest gaming-orientated laptop in the form of the GX403.





Sporting a 14.1in display capable of a WSXGA+ resolution, the svelte laptop, weighing in at 2.2kg, packs in a discrete NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M 256MB graphics card, a Centrino 2 Duo chip, up to 4GB RAM, and a 320GB hard drive. Potential purchasers will also have the option of specifying a Blu-ray drive, too.

There are the usual goodies in the form of a 1.3MP camera, Bluetooth, 802.11n WiFi, HDMI, ExpressCard, and eSATA. Clearly, MSI is aiming this at the business traveller who wants more than just basic gaming power made available from integrated graphics - no matter how good ATI and NVIDIA tell you they are.

True to MSI form, the CPU - which is available in varying speed-grades - can be user-overclocked via the company's one-touch Turbo Drive Technology.

No pricing or particular SKUs have been announced just yet, but we quite like the thin-form-factor notebook that's a cut above in the gaming stakes.

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and a GT130 is the equivilent of a….?
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and a GT130 is the equivilent of a….?

9600GS I think.

Wonder how well Vista will run on a computer with 512mb RAM :/ Must be cracking for games…
The Nvidia GeForce GT 130M is a DirectX 10 graphics card for notebooks and technically a higher clocked GeForce 9650M GT with a lower current consumption .

*drools*
http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gt_130m_us.html

~ a cut down desktop geforce 9500 or mobile 9600 gt.

The article links to the desktop rather than mobile gt130, and as usual with nvidia parts the notebook parts with the same name rarely use the same chips much less have the same specifications.
Given that it packs a 90W PSU and a 9-cell battery as an *option*, how long do we think the 6 cell battery is likely to last in normal operation (let alone gaming!). I'm inclined to think “not long” is a reasonable answer…