MSI Laptop GX630-028US AMD Athlon X2 QL-62 (2.00GHz) 4GB Memory 250GB HDD NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT 15.4" Windows Vista Home Premium

Pros: Great notebook specs for the money . i done alot of research and found this to be the best bang for buck around. I am impressed with the quality of the product. The geforce 9600 gt is a nice midrange card that can play the lastest games with easy. I have already been playing Fallout 3 and Dead Space with no problems. The sound quality is excellent. This product is perfect for the traveling gamer that needs a good priced laptop to get his gaming fix. I watched the stress test videos on youtube and that was a big help to decide since there where no reviews at the time.

Cons: Windows Vista was a problem for me one my Dell. I hope SP1 has fixed alot of the bugs. No things bad to say so far about laptop. It performs just like the you would thing a geforce 9600 gt and 4 gigs of ram. The processor is a lil weak but for the price i will not complain at all.

Overall Review: I am really impress with MSI for make a good product with great specs. for a great price. MSI say their products are designed for a 6 year life expectance. I have been shopping a Newegg for 10 years and the service and speedy shopping experience still impress me to this day. My new MSI was in my hands 27 hours after i placed the order.That is pretty sweet since i live over 2000 miles away. Thanks Newegg keep up the good work.

Pros: Definetly a gamers laptop. WSAD have arrows on them, Turbo mode for boosting processor speeds, even a numpad on the keyboard. Brushed aluminum and red/black color scheme. 9600GT is a nice mid-range dedicated card. Sound quality is very good.

Cons: Because they squeezed the numpad into this laptop(which is nice), some of the keys are smaller and not fat finger friendly

Overall Review: For the money, this is a nice gamers laptop, and very flashy. Impressed with the Value.

Pros: This thing has a nifty little turbo button on it which may increase your framerates while gaming by about 5, but overall its not a HUGE benefit. Its more of a gimick than anything. The best part about this gimick, is that it has more than just a turbo button. it has 2! gasp! 2 buttons that control your proccessor clock. Whick is the most nifty thing in the world. Gaming mode, movie mode, presentation mode, office mode, and "turbo battery" mode. which is nice becuase they try to get the best battery life from your computer. Nice video card.. nice ram. nice processor. awesme if your a black and red person. YAY Webcam and Microphone.

Cons: Whats not to like about this computer? ok. well every computer has something bad about it. The computer's ethernet port seems to stick to the cord, making it feel like your breaking the computer trying to get it out. The harddrive comes in 2 peices. C: OS install and D: data. it will scare you that you may actually have to manually install programs into the D drive. but its nice that the operating system is out of the way from any potential harm from your programs or programs that might catch you off guard. Vista. It makes things hard to get to. And if you're someone who likes to do everything yourself... well.. just change it yourself. The mic is tricky to get to work, but if you're switching from a standing mic to this, there should be no problem. It is the opposite however, for people who use headsets, you find yourself bending over to use the Mic. The keys on the right side of the keyboard are NOT fat-finger friendly. however, you can get used to them easilly

Overall Review: The price of this computer is amazing for what you get, the saying "you get what you pay for" Applies in absolutely no way to this computer. If you want a computer, and have the money, get it. For gamers: Average WoW fps= around 25 HL2: 30 CSS: 30 Spore: 50 and these fps are in GAMING mode. not Turbo mode. MSI dosent want to leave you hanging on this one, so they hooked you up with everything they could, and they did it right.

Pros: Excellent portable gaming laptop, plays the games that I play very well, at full (or nearly full) options: City of Heroes, Guildwars, EVE Online. On City of Heroes, with a full team and particles (very graphic intensive) turned up I am able to get 30-50fps which was better than the desktop machine I was running it on. Vista SP1 is better than I had expected; I like some of the features and will not be removing it for XP (at least not yet). I am an IT professional, and the last thing I want to do is mess with computers when I get home. So far (other than the wireless driver which I will get into in 'other thoughts' Vista has been fine, the laptop is great. I click on the little icon for my game, and I'm happy. Another pro: when its cold, there's a nice little hand warmer on the right hand side, oh wait, that's the vent for the video card.

Cons: DO NOT UPDATE THE WIRELESS DRIVER. Everything was solid with wireless networking until I did the 'optional' update to the Ralink adapter. Saturday, I updated the wireless driver; after that, every 3-15 minutes the wireless card would drop connection, then reconnect: this is totally unacceptable when doing voice comms, or online gaming. A driver rollback did not help the situation at all. Luckily I had created the 'recovery' disk as recommended by the manufacturer. I had to run the recovery disk to revert it back to the manufacturer press on the system partition (you do not have to delete all partitions). And then set up the entire machine again. Luckily I keep no data on the machine (if I had, I could have copied it over to the non-system partition and been OK). I can't really say anything bad about the hardware. I was looking at a macbook pro, and this machine at 1/3 the cost does what I want it to.

Overall Review: If you have already updated the wireless driver, and had the problem with your network dropping all the time, you have to use the recovery disks. They do not come with the machine, you have to create them. I had already installed/uninstalled several applications and set up the machine the way I wanted it before I created the recovery disks, but it appears that does not matter. The system partition after the loading the recovery disk was a fresh Vista install with all of the 'trial' versions of software still installed, and none of the Windows updates. If you want to do the recovery: a) Go into the MSI programs and chose Burn Recovery, follow the directions. b) copy all of your data to a USB drive, or one of the non-system partitions. c) turn off the wireless card and boot the recovery disk. Chose the option for system partiton only. You will have to reconfigure the whole machine like you just got it. Even with the 'good' wireless driver, it will not reconnect after sleep

Pros: Really beautiful and well designed, I get ohh's and ahh's from people every time I bring it out. Incredible value for the price! I love having the num pad, and don't mind the small keys because of it (I have small girl hands anyway). Had no problems with set up, wireless is fine, even Vista isn't that bad. I'm on Skype daily, and had no problems with the web cam or mic that tweaking the settings couldn't fix. Nice and lightweight (though I'm used to using a monster Thinkpad, lol!). So far I'm very very happy with it.

Cons: Not many that I can think of, and no major ones. It does pick up finger prints and dust easily. Battery life is rather short, but I usually am using it at home and keep it plugged in anyway. Keys are rather loud, I got some complaints about the mic picking up my typing while I was on Skype.

Overall Review: I am by no means a techie, and I'm a newbie gamer, so I enlisted the help of my friends when I decided to buy a new laptop. I wanted something that would do all the normal stuff (school projects, pics, music, etc.) as well as allow me to play TF2 and Diablo 3 (when it comes out). My friend (in school for game design and has played just about everything out there) found this laptop for me. Everyone I have showed it to, from hardcore gamers to IT guys, have been impressed with it. When my friends saw it was easily capable of running Chrysis, they all wanted to get one! My boyfriend who just spent twice as much on an HP a couple months ago has severe laptop envy and keeps trying to get me to trade with him, lol! I feel that I got a great deal and have a solid machine that will take me through my next 4 years of school, as well as my newbie forays into online gaming. I know for a fact that to get anything comparable I would have had to shell out at least another $300.

Pros: Awesome machine. DEDICATED Geforce 9. Plays everything I have to throw at it. I love MSI for making an OS partition and leaving me the rest of the drive. Partitioning is a lost art these days in the windows community. I always make at least 3 partitions, one for OS, one for swap(prevents fragmentation), and one for everything else. YOU CANNOT FIND A BETTER LAPTOP FOR THIS PRICE ANYWHERE!!! Also, very good linux support. The only driver that needed a wrapper was the wifi, and thats to be expected. I haven't seen a need to try the factory turbo button yet.

Cons: Runs a little hotter than I would like and there is no way to make the fan run 100% all the time. CPU never really gets over 75deg celsius even under a load, which is amazing for such a small package with so much electronics in it, but I would feel better if I could run the fan all the time.

Overall Review: Runs 10 degrees celsius cooler if you put a pen under the battery to give it an extra quarter inch of clearance under the vents. Battery doesn't last long for gaming, but who games on the battery anyway. If you underclock the video card with some third party software and put it in power save mode, it gets almost 3 hours on a full charge. Without the UC and the pen under it, the battery lasts about 2 hours max.

Pros: Firstly, people, don't rate products 1 star if you receive a lemon or if you are just asking a question about the product. These things happen, so get a working model and THEN review it. That being said, this notebook is fantastic. The brushed aluminum and red plastic looks great, and as everyone else said, the speed is unbelievable. I wasn't expecting it to be able to play all the latest games (even Crysis!!) on high or highest settings. All the drivers are available for 32-bit or 64-bit operating systems from MSI's webpage, which is updated regularly. Finally, the price is unbeatable. For $799 plus shipping, it is easily the best notebook for the price available on the market today. Maybe even tomorrow!

Cons: The screen resolution is a bit low, but it is really not a problem. The included microphone and speakers aren't adequate for "serious" gaming; but then, all "serious" gamers already own headsets. Two USB ports plus one eSATA port isn't quite enough, but for $5 you can pick up a hub. No problems that get in the way of complete enjoyment of the laptop.

Overall Review: I'm ashamed to admit this, but sometimes I just jam out on the touch-sensitive control strip playback controls, because the blue light it creates looks so neat. Admission is the first step to recovery ;)

Pros: 44 reviews saying the pros of it, not gonna mention it anymore

Cons: if u wanna downgrade(?) to windows XP, remember to disable ACHI in bios otherwise u cant install XP Also, the WLAN drivers for XP from MSI does not work. You may wanna go to the official site to download it, my model is ralink. you can find the driver under the catalog mPCI RT 2600 Hope it helps for those who wanna use XP instead of Vista