MSI's GT660 Gaming Notebook Gets Spec'd
A few months back at CeBit, MSI showed off a gaming notebook that looked pretty amazing.With a 16-inch HD display, USB 3.0 and Intel's Core i7 CPU, things looked very promising.
MSI yesterday revealed the full list of specs for the GT660 and while we'll reserve judgment until we find out what kind of money they're asking for the machine, we think it looks pretty damn sweet.
Aside from the aforementioned 16-inch HD display, 2xUSB 3.0 and Intel Core i7, the GT660 packs Nvidia's GeForce GTX 285M Graphics with 1GB VRAM; up to 12GB of RAM; a 500GB harddrive (with an option for a second 500GB HDD); HDMI out; and a 9-cell battery.
Electronista reports that the desktop replacement will also come with MSI’s Turbo Drive Engine+ (TDE+) technology, which doubles the CPU, RAM, and graphics performance with the push of a button. However, MSI didn't provide any more details on the technology.
We'll keep you posted on pricing and availability.

When less processing power is required, you can increase battery life by 100%. Sounds good to me.
Lol so they are severely down-clocking it?
When less processing power is required, you can increase battery life by 100%. Sounds good to me.
Pretty slick laptop though, i love my MSI gaming laptop, it's fantastic.
The laptop's battery ran out before it could tell you it only has a 50 minute battery life.
Glad for a redesign on MSI's laptop case. I would estimate it will be 20% cheaper then its competing ASUS model. MSI does have a 5870M laptop but in a different case and its running at around $1300.
It's not even a gtx 285, it's based on the 9800 gtx+.
MSI have this feature on some of their other gaming laptops. The laptop runs entirely stock until the button is pressed. It then overclocks itself by a small amount. The catch is the laptop must be plugged in for this to work. I can't imagine this laptop being any different.
Rather than an overclocking feature, I would be looking for underclocking feature that when your not gaming or running heavy tasks, the processor underclocks and the GPU enters a very low power state to save battery. I saw a while back talk of putting atom processors in such devices for when the user is doing very light web browsing. Something like that I would find more useful than overclocking.
"just"?