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MSI Targets Gamers with GX740-291, Powerful 17'' Laptop

Alexandre Botella
Translator: Sam McGeever
December 1, 2010 8:38 AM
With avid gamers in its sights, MSI has unveiled the GX740-291, a laptop with a matte finish, 1440 x 900 pixel, 17'' display and some of the most powerful components currently available for notebooks.

Anybody who builds a laptop for gamers has to include some impressive hardware, and this is no exception.  At the heart of this machine is a 1.73 GHz Intel Core i7-740QM processor, 6 GB of RAM, a 500 GB hard drive and an ATI Mobility Radeon HD5870 graphics card.  If you want to go with AMD, that's currently the very best mobile graphics equipment you can get for your money.

 
MSI GX740-291



With a quad-core processor and 4 GB of RAM, it won't have any trouble at all with everyday office work and web browsing, or more demanding tasks like editing photos and videos or rendering 3D models.
 

There's no holding back with games.  We've already this graphics card out in the Asus G733h, where it managed to handle the most demanding 3D games flawlessly at 1920 x 1080 pixels and the maximum level of detail.  On the GX740-291, where the resolution is only 1440 x 900 pixels, it should do even better.

That 17'' display and the weight (3.4 kg) make this the sort of laptop you want to use at home rather than on the road.  Gaming laptops are really built to stay the course either: we'd be surprised if the battery in this one lasted more than three hours once you unplug it.

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