MSI Officially Releases the X460 Notebook

Micro-Star International has gone and enacted one of those maneuvers where it officially unleashes a product whose impending arrival has been known for weeks or more, namely the X460 notebook.

As end-users may or may not know or remember, the beginning of June was marked by the Computex IT trade show.

There, companies from around the world convened and presented products, old and new, whether they were desktops, laptops, tablets, consumer electronics or individual hardware components.

One of the things at MSI's booth was a mobile computer with the name of X460, something that has now been officially launched.

The product measure 14 inches and has a screen with a native resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels (HD), plus LED backlighting.

The heart is an Intel Core i5-2410M or an i7-2630QM, while up to 8 GB of DDR3 RAM (random access memory) back it up.

Storage space is brought to the equation by a hard disk drive, one with a capacity of 500 GB, 640 GB or 750 GB.

The press release also confirms the DVD Super Multi optical drive, Bluetooth 3.0, 802.11 b/g/n WLAN, Gigabit Ethernet, an HD webcam and THX TruStudio Pro audio.

Other specifications include an HDMI port (for streaming media to larger monitors or HDTVs), a VGA connector and support for the Intel Wireless Display, MSI Cinema Pro and MSI S-Bar technologies.

Finally, MSI did not put in a discrete graphics option from AMD or NVIDIA, so prospective buyers will have to make sure that the CPU integrated HD 3000 will be enough for what they expect to have the X460 do.

All the hardware, along with the battery, is packed inside a frame measuring 23.94 x 33.9 x 2.23 cm and operated by the Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Windows Home Premium and Windows 7 Ultimate operating systems. Unfortunately, the laptop has not been priced yet.