We took a close-up gander at some of MSI's new laptops this week at CES and two caught our eye. The MSI GT70 Dragon Edition is turning heads (and snagged a CES Innovations award) for its bright-red chassis, which sports dragon engravings. The $2699 system has a 17.3-inch, 1920x1080 screen and boasts an Intel
Core i7-3630QM processor. Other features to note include Nvidia GeForce GTX 680M graphics, as well as
Killer technology for wireless (N1202) and LAN (E2200).
Another standout is the MSI Quadro Workstation which is targeted at business users and students involved in 3D design and animation. (The laptop was running AutoCAD for our demo.) As you might have guessed, the laptop runs
Nvidia Quadro K2000M and an Intel Core i7 processor.
Built in the same chassis as the MSI GT60 gamer, the Workstation keeps some of its gamer heritage in the form of Killer E2200 networking. But where the GT60 has 12GB of
RAM, the Workstation boasts 32GB.
Joshua Gulick
Josh cut his teeth (and hands) on his first PC upgrade in 2000 and was instantly hooked on all things tech. He took a degree in English and tech writing with him to
Computer Power User Magazine and spent years reviewing high-end workstations and gaming systems, processors, motherboards, memory and video cards. His enthusiasm for PC hardware also made him a natural fit for covering the burgeoning modding community, and he wrote
CPU’s “Mad Reader Mod” cover stories from the series’ inception until becoming the publication editor for
Smart Computing Magazine. A few years ago, he returned to his first love, reviewing smoking-hot PCs and components, for
HotHardware. When he’s not agonizing over benchmark scores, Josh is either running (very slowly) or spending time with family.
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