World's First Overclockable Gaming Notebook...

The MSI notebook is in no shape or fashion the "World's First Overclockable Notebook".

If you don't know what I'm talking about it's the GX600banner ad that is running up top.

I don't want to offend the advertisters here on NBR but they seriously need to think before they put such things on banner ads.

This may turn into another Gerstmann gate but Marketing types need to wake up, or are they just trying to hit the uninformed masses with what is 'percieved' to be the new hotness?

When I think of the first overclockable I think of either the Dell or the C90. Which both allowed you to OC the processor and GFX cards.

 

Wow good observation. I didnt even notice that!

 

I agree. My m1730 is very much OC'able and I've had her for 2 months now :d

 

What about teh Asus C90s, not only the first overclockable but also upgradeable..

 

I always find the graphics cards adverts the most misleading. Nvidia "comparison" below for the 8600gt card lol.



Lets just find an image, blur it in photoshop and then stick it in our advertisment!

Dave

 

LOL, yeah looks blurry

 

LMAO! and what exactly do they mean by "Without 3d graphics display: With 3d graphics display"

Most misleading ad EVOAR!

 

But it has a turbo button!!!111

With the turbo button it makes it soooo much better especially if it's red and says TURBO on it. I wish my microwave had a turbo button on it or even my toaster oven!!

 

Yeah, I often find myself feeling sorry for the uninformed ill-advised consumer. Because if you didnt know any better you would swear the MSI is the next best thing....when really its just a part. And that blurry picture things is just rediculous.

 

LOL the blurring is funny as, because remembering correctly it takes more processing power for motion blur

 

But I overclock my notebook!

 

It's all marketing, and unfortunately there is so much frosting put on products these days you really have to dig deep to find out what you're buying.

The correct way for MSI to advertise that notebook would have been to say "The world's first notebook with a button you can push to overclock." Of course that's too long of a string of words to stick in the audience's mind so . . .

 

If you read it in legalese its 'Worlds first overclockable notebook....with a turbo button!'

damn Chaz beat me to it

 

I found the ad entertaining.

We joke around the office about adding "turbo buttons" whenever something doesn't seem fast enough.

I have a clip-on turbo-button somewhere...
Clip it on, press it, and ANYTHING works faster!

I wonder if they know its an old industry-wide joke similar to painting flames on your grocery-getter.

 

A turbo button? A turbo button is useless if you don't have a turbo engine like the asus c90.

 

Its all about just pushing the TURBO button...

On other laptops you have to go into bios etc.. whatever...

Here you just juice it up by pressing the TURBO button...

And its only overclocking on the CPU sa far as I know...

You want turbo? Just attach a 12 cylinder with 2 turbos with blots and duct tape (put laptop on top of engine) and rev it up! ... Thats what I call turbo...

 

Amazingly stupid.

 

See, that's why I use a Mozilla Firefox extension that removes all ads from webpages.

 

Ads? What are those?

Anyway, most advertising can be misleading, one way or another. But if you get a sale and your customer is happy, can't really complain, eh?