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Anyone have any experience with MSI notebooks?

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amdforever2

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I wanna buy this MSI laptop, but am concerned about MSI's quality. I am particularly concerned about hinges that wear out and power sockets that get loose and fail to make contact with their plugs thereafter. I am already buying the extended warranty, but If someone could reassure me the quality is as good as say Dell or HP, that would really help wrap up this decision for me.
 
ordered 1 x MSI notebook in my life, it came with a defective screen. returned it and got a Lenovo....

i know thats not saying much because all manf's have problems, but thats just my lifetime exp with MSI
 
Apparently MSI makes their cases out of metal alloy instead of plastic... Dunno if that makes you more confident.
 
I had a MSI Wind....does that count?

The build quality is ok, actually pretty good I thought. There was no funny loose hinge problems with my MSI Wind but the plastics didn't align too well and I had an USB port that was misaligned so it was difficult to plug and unplug things out of it.
 
MSI used to have a horrible reputation for exploding capacitors on their motherboards. AFAIK they used to use really cheap components as well.

They're probably better now but their brand name is still tarnished in my books.
 
Apparently all the MSi laptops on newegg come with Vista 32 bit which is infuriating considering the one I want has 4GB ram.

I guess I'll be getting the Acer notebook with the ATI 3650 once it goes back down to 799.99.
 
I took the plunge and bought this MSI GX710-280A laptop. Can't be happier.

I'm not a gamer so I can't say about the gaming experience, and I'm not going to carry this thing everywhere, all I want is a laptop with high resolutin LCD so I can see more information in one screen.

This laptop does it and does it beautifully, even with my poor eyes. It's quiet and it's not hot when I use it.

The only comlaint is 32-bit Vista, and with ATI HD 2600, you have only 3.25GB physical RAM left. Windows 7 will be out in one year, I'll do the upgrade then.

And the casing is plastic, not alloy like HP. However, it's only $699! What can you complain?

It comes with PCMCIA slot, not Express card (Newegg will fix the description), so I can use all of my PCMCIA cards.

You can't find a better deal than this. Highly recommended.
 
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