MSI X600...

Spit said:
Just ordered another one on the OCUK weekly deal. Already have the SSD waiting for it :)
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In some way you doubled your battery life. ;)

I just discovered that OCUK is a kind of a store or a commercial web site. ^^

I watch at the weekly deal for the MSI X600 and I saw that they cheated the battery life as it is said to be 8 hours with a 6 cell battery ! :(
That's simply impossible !!!


So here is the result of my second test of battery life, but only partial test : as it was again an Internet and Office use and I forgot to switch bluetooth off, so only light was reduce to 50% ==> 3.45 h ! :D

Almost 50 mn gain reducing the light by 50% and again with the standard 5400RPM HDD. Not bad...

If you are interessed here is a link for a 9 cell battery :

http://www.buy-laptop-battery.co.uk/msi-laptop-battery/msi-btym69-battery.html

You may surely find cheaper elsewhere, but do not buy a model to be said a 8 cell battery (4400 mAh) you can find in some other web sites as the power is less than the basic 6 cell battery (5400 mAh).

I hope I can find a cheap capacitive touch panel so I would modify this X600 as I am so accustomed with my Acer 1825PTZ with it's touchscreen that most of the time, I use to touch the panel trying to scroll the web pages... :D
Even the touchpad is not that good compared to the Acer or the Asus one for page scrolling. :/
 
Thanks :) Do you know if the 9 cell battery sticks out much or makes the laptop thicker? Cant find any photos of it when attached to the laptop.
 
Definitly not idea.

The model is BTY-M69 or BTY-M6A 9 cell and is supposed to weight 380 g while the 6 cell is supposed to weight 420 g ?!?!?!
For the 6 cell, I don't know if it is the net weight or with the packaging...

So send them a mail or make a phone call to ask.

EDIT : If you care about this, then you can buy aother 6 cell battery.
 
The 9 cell battery is cheaper compared to a 6 cell, but it may break the aestetic of the Laptop indeed. But again, I don't really how it is.
 
I have switched to a 500GB 7200RPM HDD and the laptop is faster. Not as fast as with a SSD though, but still. ;)

Don't know yet if this will affect the battery life. Will test soon.
I'm trying some optimisations for the moment...
 
No idea why you would buy this when you can get a MSI FX600 from a well known catalog shop for £550. It's competent at playing games too.
 
I wanted the thinnest and lightest laptop possible !

I know I could find better and more powerfull laptop for the same price and I didn't want to carry a CD/DVD burner if not needed. I don't play games.

It may not be a rational choice, but it's my choice...
 
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i have the x600, it does everything i want it to do. Has no problems playing back video right up to 1080P via HDMI to my Sony KDL40EX503. Also am surprised how many games it can actually play at medium res, more than enough to keep me happy
 
Anyone can tell me what the fn F10 stands for ? Can't find any information about it in the doc... ^^

I just finished a Linux Ubuntu installation (Lucid 10.04) on this machine on a 100GB partition and it's simply FANTASTIC !!!
Everything is working out of the box ! I just have not tested HDMI output and Bluetooth yet, but all the functions keys are working fine. :D

Only fn F10 does'nt do anything with Linux or Windows either ???
 
Mine are running a treat with the SSD's in. Windows 7 64bit and office 2010.

5 hours on battery.
 
creed said:
How does the x600 handle HD playback, any stuttering? Does the 1.3 processor hold it back?
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What kind of HD playback ?

The 1.3 processor has nothing to do as long as the ATI/AMD GPU can handle it.

Best is to install the latest ATI Catalyst drivers and the latest flash version.

For video files, you can use VLC or Media Player classic HD.

With Windows Media Player, I don't know as I don't use it very often and don't even use Windows 7 very often as I'm using Ubuntu x64 most of the time... ^^ ;)

EDIT : just forgot, Congratulation creed ! :D
 
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lol thanks dude! It would be to play mkv, divx etc. for which I usually use Media Player Classic.

Is the 1.3 processor a bottleneck for anything in particular?
 
creed said:
lol thanks dude! It would be to play mkv, divx etc. for which I usually use Media Player Classic.

Is the 1.3 processor a bottleneck for anything in particular?
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If you mention 1.3 processor, that's mean you don't have a SU9600, right ?

But as I quoted before the Radeon HD 4330 save you in most cases.

For HD video playback, you should not encounter any problems as long as you use a software that make intensive use of the Radeon GPU (processor should stay at about 10 or 15%).

You may have problems with new or next gen games, specially in hi-res, or with video and photo encoding. And again, it's depend on the softwares and if you plan to do complex or simple tasks. The amount of RAM may do either, particularly with Windows 7...

Otherwise, in a basic or regular use, your 1.3 processor WITH the Radeon HD 4330 GPU is quite fair.

But if you planed to write a specific program to make a contact with ET, then you're out of the scope of this machine... :p
 
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