MSI showed at Cebit a refresh of its GT-gaming laptop, which has significantly more powerful hardware will provide. The new versions get Intel Ivy Bridge quadcores and video cards from Nvidia’s yet to be released GT6xxM series.
The housing of the shown GT70 is unchanged from the current version, but internally, things are indeed different. First of all the specs up-to-date with Intel’s latest Ivy Bridge quadcores and Nvidia-gpu from the next GT6xxM series. In addition, there is now a special ethernetcontroller of the company Bigfoot is present, latency to a minimum would be to limit, which would be beneficial for onlinegaming. How much memory the machines are going to get is not yet clear, but the platform can hold up to 32GB. The existing employee did not from that of which option to use will be made.
The chassis still provides a place for two drives, but MSI has now also support for msata added. There will be configurations out in which in one of the drive bays, two msata-ssds in raid 0 are placed, while in the other drivebay as a regular hard drive. It is likely than to have two ssd’s of 64GB, which in a raid 0 set-up throughput rates up to 650MBps, says MSI.
In addition to the GT70 showed MSI also the GT60, a slightly smaller variant of the gamingnotebook. When the machinery is due to be released is not yet known; currently there on both Intel Ivy Bridge processors like Nvidia’s new gpu’s still an embargo. Nvidia does probably soon be an announcement, but on Ivy Bridge should probably still a month or two to wait. Only then can the notebooks are actually on the shelves to be laid.
