MSI's GX723: Deathstar looks and Intel CPU

Earlier this month I talked about the MSI GX633 and how dead sexy the black brushed aluminum and crimson red trim of the machine were. The one thing I didn’t like about the rig was that it ran AMD Turion processors rather than the typically higher performance Intel Core 2 Duo chip.

MSI has announced a new machine that fixes that little caveat for Intel fans and crams all the gear into the same sexy chassis. The MSI GX723 is a 17-inch machine with a screen resolution of 1680 x 1050. The rig runs Intel Core 2 Duo processors and sports a discrete NVIDIA GT 130M video card with 512MB of RAM.


_{Above: MSI GX723 Notebook}

The system can be optioned with up to 4GB of RAM, Bluetooth, and a 9-cell battery. The stock battery is a 6-cell unit and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n is built-in. The machine features HDMI out, perfect for taking advantage of the optional Blu-ray player.

Other features of the machine include the MSI ECO Engine that is now being offered on every new notebook MSI unveils. The ECO Engine offers five different energy conservation settings to save power under different usage scenarios. The rig also sports eSATA and a 2 megapixel webcam. Dimensions for the machine are 395 x 278 x 26.5-35 mm and it weighs 3.2kg.

Availability and pricing info for Australia are as yet unavailable.