14 DAY TRIAL // Micro-Star International may have already released the powerful GT680 gaming notebook, but its CES 2011 lineup is hardly limited to just that one gaming laptop, as is proven by its recent press release.
Intel's entry-level, mainstream and high-end Sandy Bridge central processing units have already made it into over 500 different products.
As if to enforce this point, Micro-Star International alone revealed multiple mobile computers, quite a few of them having performance specifications in the higher half of the spectrum.
The aforementioned GT680 is just one of them, MSI having also unveiled some mobile systems for the GR, GE and F series.
The GR620 and GE620 measure 15.6 inches in diagonal and boast NVIDIA GeForce GT discrete graphics, being aimed at casual gamers.
The F series were more closely detailed in the announcement, being said to automatically adapt to different workloads thanks to Intel's Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 and Hyper-Threading technologies.
The collection is composed of such systems as the FX420, FX620, FX720, FR620 and FR720.
The FX720 and FR720, for instance, have a screen size of 17.6 inches, while the FX620 and FR620 measure 15.6 inches.
Nevertheless, they all utilize processors from Intel's Core i7 series, while discrete graphics cards from NVIDIA's 500 series handle the graphics, including DirectX 11 rendering.
By contrast, the 14-inch FX420 is the more affordable of the lot, but even it features an Intel Core i5 CPU and an NVIDIA GeForce GT 500 Series discrete graphics card with 1GB DDR3.
What's more, energy efficiency, even above that provided by the low power draw of the CPUs, is provided by the MSI GPU Boost technology.
Basically, this feature switches between the integrated and discrete graphics based on application load.
The prices of the GR620 and GE620 are still unclear, but the F series will start at $699.99 and will become available this quarter.