Cinema with a wide-screen notebook

The MSI EX620 has a 16-inch screen in 16:9 cinema format a hard drive with 20 gigabytes of memory and three gigabytes. But worth the purchase of multimedia notebooks for the introductory price 799 euro?

Speed

The notebook is thanks to the Intel processor "Core 2 Duo P7350 (two computing cores, two gigahertz clock frequency) and three gigabytes of RAM when working with Office programs as well as in the image and video editing quite fast. The use of DirectX 10 graphics card "Radeon 3470" ATI has its own 256 megabytes of memory. For many PC games, it is fast enough for demanding action games last the pace but not enough.

Data Storage

The drive for notebooks is quite large: Some 230 gigabytes of usable memory (gross 250 Gigabyte) is available. The writer describes all CD and DVD types. Blu-ray discs, the "Super Multi" DVD drive, however, does not describe yet read.

Image

The glossy screen has a diagonal of 16 inches (40.7-centimeters-diagonal, 1.366x768 pixels) in the cinema 16:9 widescreen format. Movies on DVD, the screen shows therefore almost without distracting black bars. The glossy surface leads to unwanted light reflections, but it offers brilliant colors and a fairly high contrast.

Volume and battery

In normal use, the EX620 quietly, but still clearly perceptible. For compute-intensive tasks in the noisy fans something stronger.

Thus the mobile cinema does not grind to a halt on out, there are different performance and energy profiles for up to 20 percent more battery power is available. These cause the elimination of under-utilized or Heruntertakten components of the processor. They will be activated on the "Eco-touch key above the keyboard.

Service

MSI granted two-year warranty on multimedia notebook. In the case of a defect in the device at the customer's premises and after the repair again returned.

Operation and Equipment

Contact with the outside world is via the MSI WLAN (802.11b/g/n), cable network and also via 56K modem. In addition, three USB ports, a FireWire jack, an Express Card slot, one eSATA connector, a memory card reader for SD, MMC, MS, XD cards, a VGA and an HDMI connection and monitor Audio jacks are available. For video telephony and instant messaging are a 2-megapixel Webcam and a microphone above the screen in the housing.

Due to two built-in 2-watt speakers and subwoofer (2.1-system) was the sound better than other notebooks - true surround sound, there is still no. The software package includes Windows Vista Home Premium including Microsoft Works 9, the burning software Ulead Burn Now, CyberLink DVD Solution, CrazyTalk and 60-day trial versions of Microsoft Office 2007 and Norton Internet Security.