MSI GT725 now with Intel Centrino & ATI Radeon Mobility 4850

I'm not waiting further feb 10th, hope it comes out earlier...

 

when Xotic Pc gets there shippement in of thses laptops, they are going to go fast like 25 cent big mac's at mickey d's

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MSI-GT725-gam...hash=item290289217973&_trksid=p3286.m63.l1177

something for you guys to read.

"Delivery of your notebook is set for Late Jan/ Early Feb. Yes, you will be first to have it. This is a guaranteed time frame or your moneyback!"


he said that he will guarantee late jan/early feb delivery...
Very interesting.

 

Are you pre-ordering or are you waiting for it to be released?

 

have preordered frm anvika in the UK.

 

cool...frostycomputers is selling it for pre-order on ebay for $1419.

 

Well, I surely can't speak for the seller, but the fact that his pictures of what "is exactly what you will receive, nothing more nor less etc etc." are different from others(the lappie's only got one grid, on the right side, whereas amazon etc. show it with one grid on the right side and one on the back side) is, well, at least weird.

Now again it's entirely possible his pics are right and amazon's are wrong, obviously.

 

i wouldn't take the pics seriously, what with MSI's reputation for wrong spec description

 

well the pictures you see on amazon or on ebay or zipzom etc etc are
"Image for illustrative purposes only"

you can see the real pictures of the laptop from ces 09 a few post back i posted them a few time.

the case of this laptop is made of carbon fibre to keep the waight down and its good for envirement.

now about the garuntee of ebay seller what he offering is that you will get your money if the laptop dont get relased by early feb thats not a good garuntee he would nt lose anything so even if the delivery gets delays he gonna refund your money thats all.

if he is that sure about the release date he should say something like garuntee delivery or i will give you $10 off the price each day go over the time he promisses now that would be a garuntee and i will cancel my pre order which i place with microanvika and will buy from him what u say xed?

 

dude, hes shipping from the US. i wouldnt risk it, id rather wait for anvika to have them. plus, it easier to deal with anvika with regards to warranty and repairs and the like

 

lol dont worry he is not going to offer $10 off anyway

i read the first line of the listing and it say its 15.4 inc screen lol

 

lol no way period the case is real carbon fiber. there is no way they would sell at those prices. do you have any idea how much just the carbon fiber mat is...

 

i think your right not the whole case is made of carbon fibre but they did use it no doubt about that.

have a look on spec here

http://www.i4u.com/article22641-photo-gallery-21.html

http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2009/01/06/msi-prepping-carbon-fibre-gaming-laptop/

http://portals.hexus.net/?item=16828&id=microdirect

i found this video

http://tv.hexus.net/show/2008/03/Carbon_fibre_wood_and_leather_notebooks_get_Nick_all_excited/

 

sorry but i agree with zfactor. i am sure that is just fake carbon fibre. it costs too much to be used on a laptop that just costs 1125 pounds.

also i was at anvika at harrods just now, inquiring about the GT725. Guess what he told me?

"It will be here next week, we placed the order on Dec 16th and hopefully, it should arrive next week"

That's a load of crap. I don't believe the fellow

 

well you guys could be right but if you check the link i posted they are clearly saying in the video that they are going to use carbon fibre. well we just wait and see once we get our hand on it we will know for sure

i rang microanvika sales line yesterday was told that the guy who is dealing with it is on holiday and will be back by monday.
the girl said they were told this laptop should be in stock by 2nd week of jan. and they dont have any more info and i was advise to call back monday.

to be honest i got a feeling that it will be out by first week of feb the latest becuase its been on pre order for 3 weeks now on amazon.

 

Amazon has them on pre-order too for $70 less than frosty.

Weird thing about Frosty is that I noticed that he has the same case dimension + weight for BOTH the 725 models and the 627 models. His 725 dimensions agree with what's on amazon, but they have no dimensions/weight for the 627 models, but checking the gx620 info it appears that the 725 is only SLIGHTLY larger than the 620 which should be the same size as the 627...

Making me re-consider to look at these again now too. It'd be nice to try a Radeon GPU again, but I dread the inevitable poor X11 performance until a decent open source driver arrives. (Even the ATI proprieatary X11 drivers are reportedly awful(why I've kept to nvidia) and I'm sure the primary reason that they've decided to release enough info to write OSS drivers for X11...)

 

I don't know if you mean what you say. They are not going to use "fake" materials. It's obvious that it would lead them to a serious juridical problem.

If carbon fiber is as expensive as you say, I would rather think that they are exploiting near-slave miners or workers in a foreign country. That's everyday use in USA, Europe, etc, so I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case.

 

theres real carbon fibre and then theres fake carbon fibre made from plastics in the weave pattern of carbon fibre.

i was referring to the latter.

 

lol 10chars

 

IIRC Apple used carbon fiber as their case material some time back, then moved on to metallic cases. Up to Al no, but IIRC they started with Ti.

Also turns out that my case dimension approx. using Amazon/Frosty value seems to disagree a bit with the official MSI dimensions given on their global site.

Looks like the 627 is an inch (or so) longer than the 627's case, approx. the same depth, and slightly thicker. Still, overall not as much of a difference as I had expected, although I do wish that some large retail chain sold these things so that I could actually see the sizes of the various cases. As it stands the only ones that I have seen are the 620/627 case, and I could go to a Best Buy to look at their G50VT, which presumably shares the same case as the rest of the G50VTs.

Does MSI ODM/OEM for any of the brands more likely to be found in large retail chains?

 

thats is 100% fake carbon fiber. i work with the real stuff all the time. trust me that looks like the film applied to car parts to make the fake carbon look its like a super think vinyl film that is heat shrinkable. i have sold and applied it to dashboard pieces for years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pH6j9lmwrE

 

this is REAL carbon fiber:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAdVO8Rkv6c&feature=related

i work with real stuff all the time. trust me there is no way they are using real stuff..

 

Ok I am not sure why we are debating about carbon fibre zfactor, Persio , xed and myself none of us own the laptop so none us can be 100% sure about the material or spec until its release.

to be honest carbon fibre or no carbon fibre i will still going to get this laptop does not bother me at all so let’s save the carbon fibre debate for later. And let’s talk about the release date of this laptop. I am going to ring microanvika first thing in the morning finger cross hopefully I will get a good news

 

no one is arguing. just debating on whether it's carbon fibre

chill, guys...

 

thats what i said why debate ? who said anything about arguing ? :tongue:

 

haha dude, you edited your post before at 10:58 pm. naughty naughty

 

heh caught him i think it looks a little overdone i want to see it in person though

 

Edited post ? me? where ? i think you got confused with my signature i will never do such a thing

 

YAY! The MSI GT725 is cool!

YAY!

 

my goodness, the lengths you go to just to cover your tracks are truly unappealing, especially with regards to your trustworthiness.

anyway, this has taught me to ALWAYS quote. I don't want a person like faisal to put words in my mouth again.

 

BTW what looks overdone? the laptop? or faisal's attempts at forgery?

 

lol c mon now i was just joking around did nt you said chill so i was just chilling.

sorry if i offended you

 

oh BTW the edit is still there, meaning that you did edit that post and not your signature.

all your other posts only have one line of "Last edited by faisalhero : Yesterday at 10:58 PM."

If one did edit his/her signature, it would not be posted for everyone to see!

 

well yes i am offended, it's like you calling me out, calling me a liar.

who wouldnt have been offended?

 

ok do u realies if i go and edit all my post they will match double editing lol than you will say i went too far to cover my track

 

ooo my GOD now you pusting word in my mouth i never said your a liar

anyway XED is not a liar i am i edit my post and my signature not to offend anyone just as a joke was trying to be funny did nt work out well sorry again

 

that was like... hey, stop talking about MSI's carbon fiber and let's talk nonsense.

Now I'm-so-offended!

 

ok back to topic now please

 

Woah, my thread has been going on for quite a while! This is probably the highest number of replies of all my threads I have created. Keep it up!

Well it seems like majority of everyone in NBR is excited about the GT725's arrival. I did alot of reading, and it seems like majority of the folks at "What Notebook Should I Buy" forum are recommending it, or least mentioning about it in almost every thread about enquiring a gaming laptop.

They have one thing in mind - all of us are dying to see the performance of the Mobile variant of the HD4850.

 

i think more people are interested in how the 4850 performs heh

also, the MSI has the best price right now....

 

Ah yes... That's the best thing about it. No doubt about that.

 

Actually Frosty's 725 is $1359 from their frostycomputers page. Wonder why the ebay listings are higher... low end one, and he also has a 627 for $1259 IIRC, the WSXGA+ screen I believe (lists it as 1680x1050) minus BR DVD but only with a P8400...

HD4850: Either way I'm being pushed more and more towards the 17" form factor since a) as per official specs v. 15.4" it's not really much larger, apparently, b) possibility for quad core upgrade some day maybe, and c) up to MXM-III support, so better possibilities of upgrades for the GPU as well

1651/GX620 only support a low end quad core ATM (probably for thermal reasons), and likely for same thermal reasons as well as space maybe will be more limited in GPU upgrades, pretty much the same would seem to apply to the 627 as it appears to have the same case and maybe even mb as the 620. While the G50VT is pretty big, and may have a proprietary version of Asus MXM thereby limiting potential GPU upgrades.

[EDIT]
I think that Frosty has his specs all wrong other than the titles, but even those aren't really correct...
[/EDIT]

 

i think the reason why ebay listing are higher. seller have to pay like some % of his sale to ebay as final value fee. he also have to pay for puting his listing on ebay than if someone pay with paypal. seller have to pay paypal fee for recieving that money so to cover all these charges the price is higher on ebay

if you buy from his web site he dont have to pay all these charges so price is lower.

 

I understand that it seems there are a lot of "typo" errors in the specs. MSI says there is only 3MB of L2 cache, however if they are truely using a P9500, I can not for the life of me find any P9500s that have anything but 6MB of L2 cache.

I would then assume this is just another mistake in the specs.

Unfortunately I cannot reach anyone at MSI to confirm or deny any of these "oversights".

Well here is to hoping the 725 shows up sooner than later.....

 

so, after all these mistakes, the only certain thing is that it has a 4850.

(or.. maybe... it's a mistake too, and it's a 3850 )

 

keep with the theme of the thread or you will be warned by the forum patrol

 

thanks for your concern but everything is back on track already

 

yeah guys i didnt want to start anything with anyone. i just was saying it was not the real stuff nothing more. no agruements.. lol.. now back on track

 

If you guys detest the faux carbon fiber pieces so much, I'm sure the corresponding parts can be interchanged with the current GX720.

 

Im just glad the machine is not all shiny plastic to make the OCD people crazy as i hated the gateways for just that reason .