MSI Ships 17'' GX740 with Radeon 5870, Core i7

POWERHUNGRY? low life battery? oh but its strong laptop. for the price

Not to shabby since it's a desktop replacement. If it was advertised as anything else... hah, good luck with that.

I love my MSI laptop... If i wasn't building computer this summer I would consider this

not bad for approx 1400 bucks

What, no SSD? Only 500GB Why not 2TB?

or you could buy a g73 with 6gigs of ram

Find me a 2TB 2.5in drive and then I'll give you an answer.

I was going to point out the massive GTX470 typo.

Then I realized it's GX740.

-facepalm-

Throw in a new Phenom II mobile black instead of an i7 to drop the price by about $200 or so, and I'll probably consider. =)

MSI, yeah no thanks

An Asus G73Jh-A1, has the same GPU and probably the same i7 version CPU, but has 8 GB DDR3, 1 TB storage, BlueRay drive, and 1920x1080 resolution, for $300 more. To me, while more expensive, the Asus is the better value.

17" screen and no 1080p. Sucks.

Sounds like heat issues to me.

Looks nice, just did not like the "NVidia GX" label so will not buy one.
Thought this was a new GX740 Nvidia video card article.

Own the Asus G73JH-X1 for several months now and very happy @$1500.
Replaced the samsung hd crap with 2x 128gb SSD in raid0 and love it.
Had issues upgrading from Win7 to XP64 SP2 drivers and all but works fine now.

looks like a winner. not sure why you'd want 1080p on such a small screen, guys. also that 5870m is the equivalent of a 5750 1gb or 5770 1gb, which is good for this resolution, probably not as good at 1080p.

as for blu-ray, powerdvd software is awful, i regret getting a blu-ray drive for my desktop.

the only comment i agree with here is why not a bit cheaper on the CPU? i too would like to save 50$ or 100$ on an i5. but then again the cpu is such a big selling point it doesn't surprise me to see an i7 here.

i'm def getting one of these for LAN parties. not sure when, probably before diablo 3 comes out.

8 GB DDR3 on newegg

Too late and too expensive. Best Buy has offered the Asus G73 with i7/5870, with 2GB more RAM, for $1199 for 3 months now.

Yes and well worth it over this MSI !

If this a mobility radeon or a full fledged desktop radeon? I expect its a mobility radeon (ah la the Asus G73) but am disheartened that Toms often fails to distinguish between the two.

I sure see alot of complaints. Who cares if you don't want it or don't like the prices, start your own laptop company.

not bad for the price actually, but the 5870 isnt really a 5870 but still a great desktop replacement, but id never replace my desktop with a laptop... just me

Because manufacturers often read the feedback given here to further develop and market their products. You have no idea how valuable honest and candid feedback is to them. And if everyone posted the same thing and just said "meh, looks decent", or said nothing at all, those manufacturers would lose their pulse on the market. I wouldn't expect you to understand this, much less know that companies base their products and prices based partly on what they read here, but take my word for it, they do.

Actually for some reason I hightly doubt they do to sites like this get info from a bunch a people like this when they can go to people in the actual industry that are up close with their customers, sites like hpinfolab.com, retailedge.intel.com, retailaccess.com provide much better infromation then a bunch of people that like to point out faults why they shouldn't buy something they can't even afford. Why I'm sure this is a source of info they use... it's very low on the list of actual usefull information. Most comments on Toms are way to extreme either this sucks or this is awesome. Considering most have not even experience the technology or even used it but relied on putting articles they read from the internet. So needless to say I don't take your work for it, most of the customer feedback I recieve at the company I work at is garbage, not cause I don't value it but cause it's useless. If this was an actual focus group and they product was offered free everyone would take it, the product is not bad cause it's 1399. That's very competative for what the market offers. Maybe they don't agree with it, but that's cause it affects their product. The computer market is so competitive that most retailers/online don't make any money on the front end of a PC/Laptop sale but make it back in vendor support in order to avoid controlable erossion and messing with the vendor prices. Apple is a perfect example of this and same with consoles too. People have a bad experience they tell 100 people, they have a good one and tell 1 person.

Much rather have the Asus. Anything less than 1920x1080 on a "desktop replacement" is sub-par. I don't have a monitor that runs anything less, and haven't for nearly 3 years. The extra money is well worth it.

For the same reason people want Skyline GT-Rs. More...in a smaller form factor. Its just people, and Tom's tends to have a lot of power users.

Why not try a different software? I believe Corel has a software, and several others.

Very good laptop but you need to be connected to the AC power for this.

Why on earth would you downgrade to XP64?

17" screen and no WUXGA (1920x1200). Sucks.

Bla bla i deal with MSI products at my work that customers bring in, MSI makes half assed garbage, all there products are rubbish i would never buy something made by them in my life.

Laptops are just good for work purpose....

For gaming..Better go for a desktop

No 1080P support? Why bother!

Some places don't have room for large setups, replacements work well in this situation (great for LAN parties too).



Screw 1080p, if it aint 1920x1200 (wuxga as stated above) I aint buying it I don't understand why PC monitors had to dumb themselves down to TV standards.