MSI’s 15.6-inch X-Slim X600 now available

Notebooks - Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

MSI’s 15.6-inch X-Slim X600 notebook is now available, months after being announced last May. For $800, you get a notebook with a spacious screen, a thin-and light design (at 5.5 lbs and an inch thick), and a power-efficient system built around Intel’s 1.4GHz Core 2 Solo Ultra Low-Voltage processor. It’s not bad if you’re in it for the portability without sacrificing screen size—ATI Radeon HD 4330 graphics and 4GBs of memory round out the spec, along with a 320GB hard drive, an external DVD drive, and a six-cell battery.

The X600 is available now on Amazon and Newegg, with a choice of black or silver shells.

Update: MSI will also reportedly come out with an AMD-based version of the X600 called the X610. The newer model replaces the Intel CULV platform with a 1.6GHz AMD Athlon MV-40 processor and a smaller 250GB hard drive, but the rest of the spec–ATI HD 4330 graphics and 4GBs of memory–is expected to be kept. Initial tests done show a slightly slower performance and a shorter battery life compared to the Intel-based X600, but it’s expected to be priced lower.

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