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The GT780DXR arrives in a very stylish box with an image of the product with a focus on the Steelseries keyboard. While the image on the box shows a backlit keyboard, we have been instructed that the UK version will not have this. This is slightly disappointing news for UK punters.
Our bundle includes a power supply, gaming mouse and literature on the product. MSI are working a deal with some retailers which means that customers can claim for a free copy of Battlefield 3 – until 20th January 2012.
The GT780DXR is a nicely finished, if slightly ‘chunky' laptop, with curved edges and a silver ‘MSI' logo engraved into the middle of the lid. Underneath are several vents to ensure adequate airflow.
The left side of the machine has three USB ports. The single port at the front is USB 2.0 and the two together at the rear are USB 3.0. They are rather closely spaced unfortunately which could cause some fitting issues with fatter USB drives. There is a card reader between these ports and at the very front are the audio connectors. The other side has two USB 2.0 ports and the bluray drive. MSI had plenty of room to space the USB ports further apart.
The rear of the GT780DXR has HDMI and VGA out support, and a hybrid eSATA/USB 3.0 port. Gigabit lan, a security lock and the power connector are placed to the left.
The battery is locked in place with two buttons on the underside of the laptop. One of them is a ‘lock' and the other a ‘release' button. First unlock the battery then push the release lever up. MSI are using a high power 7800 mAh, 87Wh battery which should offer decent longevity. We will test this later.
I love the keyboard, steelseries involved? wow never would have expected that. nice move from MSI. £1,499 is a great price considering. Why drop the backlighting for UK however? second class citizens as usual?
I love the keyboard, steelseries involved? wow never would have expected that. nice move from MSI. £1,499 is a great price considering. Why drop the backlighting for UK however? second class citizens as usual?
Good looking machine. MSI make surprisingly good laptops. I like them as ASUS more than Dell etc. better spec for the price.
Lets not forget its £300 less than the ASUS too. Unless asus bring their new range prices down this year. I love the look of this, and im not botthered about a bit of noise.
Ordered this a few days ago, will gifve you my views when I get it hopefuylly friday.
The MSI GT780DXR-446US laptop has enough juice to kick BF3 up to ultra and power out native resolution of 1080p just beautifully without a stutter. Which is primarily what I wanted it to be able to do in terms of benchmarking (along with hopefully carry through the next 3 years of game releases). Bottom line, it is a monster of a mobile machine.. And I say this without even slight hesitation.
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