Msi Gx620

[boostah]

anyone know when this laptop will be available for purchase?

According to a shop here (belgium) it will be available mid september (price unknown)

[Chimeray]

According to a shop here (belgium) it will be available mid september (price unknown)

I live in Belgium to and I'm interested in this laptop as it might be the rival of the HP Pavilion DV7 1090eb. So what shop you're speaking of?

[boostah]

I live in Belgium to and I'm interested in this laptop as it might be the rival of the HP Pavilion DV7 1090eb. So what shop you're speaking of?

the shop i'm speaking off is tones.be

[robio]

I think I'm going to get mine from NCIX, being in the lower mainland (Vancouver) it cuts shipping costs out of my price, but the main thing is I just found out that to upgrade from 32 bit windows up to 64 is a matter of 10 dollars or so, which was one of the main reasons I wanted to order from a custom retailer like Xoticpc (full capacity RAM).

The only part that's kinda suck is that NCIX is pretty schizo when it comes to extended warranties, and really depends on the product. But I rationalize this little shortcoming by reminding myself that any RMA for a company in the States will be handled and paid for by yours truly, so it works out in the grand scheme of things.

Anyways whats the best possible RAM you can shove into this biz?

[Linnywoo]

My GX600 update:

I've been using the laptop everyday and for the most part the laptop works, but then again I cannot rely on it. Saturday I went to NYC and used the laptop extensively. Everything was fine up until about 8:00. At that time the laptop just shut off (while plugged in). The screen just went blank while I was in the middle of something important. After that the unit would not power on. When I replugged in the AC adapter the battery light would flick blue (meaning that the battery is changed) for a second and then nothing? The unit would not power on for the rest of the night. The next morning I tried to power the unit on and nothing happened (I really needed it and the thing let me down again). A few hours later it powered up fine. I used it the rest of the day without issue.

This morning I needed to read a few Emails (real quick in between meetings). The unit powered up fine… I did a few things but before I could get to my email, the screen froze. I had to take the battery out again to boot it. I never did get a chance to read my emails.

Its stuff like this that I have to deal with daily with my MSI laptop. I read the reviews before hand and they were all favorable. The only problem with the reviews is that they do not keep the unit for more than 2-weeks. My problems started cropping up a month later.

I would never, ever purchase another MSI laptop. This is from my experiences (7 months) with the GX600. My GX600 is a piece of crap. I would put the unit on Ebay but I wouldn’t wish this on my worse enemy. I should have got the Asus instead of this unreliable, constantly crashing MSI crap.

Maybe the GX620 is better. But I’m not willing to take the Gamble.

I have a GX600 and i have had LOADS of trouble with it! It started of with the monitor going dead after it had been in hibernate mode, i sent it for repairs and they changed the Motherboard but it didnt help so they updated the bios and that didnt work either. Now i have sent it for repair for the 4th time in 6 months ( i just dealt with it for a while but now im not taking any of this **** anymore and i wont give up until i get a refund ). ATM my real problem is not the monitor, that was fixed in the bios update but the constant overheating is really bad. I can play games on full graphics with no lag but the laptop overheats after 10 mins of gaming (tried lower settings as well but with the same result). I will try keep you updated about my battle to get my money back ;D

BTW if you are planning to keep your GX600 and it turns itself off you just have to remove the battery for 60 seconds (and ac power) and then plug it in again=) worked for me.

[UnderPressure]

its hard to believe this gaming laptop has such a slow hard drive speed. Everything else looks decent for the price.

[make 7 up yours]

They're selling the new MSI GX620 and GX720 on ebay right now.

Look.

http://tinyurl.com/msigx620

[Chimeray]

The one from ebay got a Nvidia 9600M GT with only DDR2... that's got to be a mistake right?
If it's really only DDR2 then it's a rip off Then this 'gaming' laptop is not worth it's price imo...

[TailGunner]

The one from ebay got a Nvidia 9600M GT with only DDR2... that's got to be a mistake right?

I'd like to know as well. MSI shows it having DDR3 in the overview, but the specifications shows DDR2. Other things I'm not sure on are the LCD (Glossy or Matte?) and Bluetooth (Included?).

[make 7 up yours]

The one from ebay got a Nvidia 9600M GT with only DDR2... that's got to be a mistake right?
If it's really only DDR2 then it's a rip off Then this 'gaming' laptop is not worth it's price imo...

That was actually the first question that I asked the seller and he responded that it's DDR 3 512 MB. It was just a misprint in the specification.