Any news on the x460?

[jacob_s]

Now we just need a reviewer :-) I think the real deciding factor with this notebook is how the screen stacks up to the competition in terms of brightness, color quality, and contrast. It's no IPS to be sure, but if it beats, say, the Vaio SR, I'm sold :-)

[atox]

The x46dx has just been released here in South Korea with 8gb ram, 750GB 7200 rpm HDD and 2 additional HDD slots! Price is around $900
Considering the almost identical specs Acer 3830tg and 4830tg suffer from throttling and battery wear issues, I would be in dire need of a review before picking up this beast

[HTWingNut]

You will have a choice of either the Quad Core processor or the nVIDIA GeForce GT 540M, but this unit will not support both.

They are now available in the US and will be on our website shortly.

Wait, what? So if you get quad core i7 you have to use integrated GPU?

To me this makes little sense. There's only 10W TDP difference between i5 dual core and i7 quad core. Sounds like it's borderline cooling. Not good.

[paladin44]

No, it is not borderline, it is MSI being very conservative.

We will be testing it with both the GT540M and Intel® i7-2630QM to see how conservative they are, and then make a decision about what we offer from there. We should have them by Friday and should have our testing results by Monday or Tuesday.

[HTWingNut]

Good, thanks for testing. So assuming that the CPU is socketed and not soldered, although assuming GPU is soldered?

Have specs for the 540m? I only ask because nVidia tends to offer a half dozen variations of their GPU's for some reason.

Is there an option for a 1600x900 or 1920x1080 screen? Matte?

Any option for blu-ray player? Their site says DVDRW, but not sure if it's like the M14x slot load 9.5mm of which no blu-ray exists (except for Sony proprietary at $500).

Any idea on battery life? Optimus should help matters.

[paladin44]

Please ask again once we have them in hand and have tested. I won't remember to come back to this post.

[HTWingNut]

Please ask again once we have them in hand and have tested. I won't remember to come back to this post.

Will do thanks.

[jacob_s]

Though most of you probably already have some place in mind for purchasing this, I just received an email from MSI confirming that various online retailers including Amazon and Newegg will begin shipping next week.

[paladin44]

Amazon & Newegg are ok for stock units, but if you want any upgrades the good 'ole custom builders on this forum would be better choices.

[jacob_s]

Agreed :-) Just letting people know, since it hasn't been well publicized on the internet. It's going to be interesting to see which fares better, the new ASUS 13.3" or the x460 in terms of upgrade potential... I'm hoping the x460 has a decent screen (decent being anything even slightly better than the trash that's been coming out lately) and handles a couple of upgrades... having the Quad i7 combined with the graphics card would be awesome :-) Really the only other way to get those two combined otherwise is to get a workstation from Dell/HP which gets rather expensive quickly.