MSI Megabook M670 001UK

I got this as a Christmas present last year as i needed a laptop to do school work surf the internet and just th usual sorts of things. This laptop is great for that and more.

It comes with a 1.8 ghz AMD sempron processor which is pretty good for the £500 this laptop costs. It has 1 gb of ram and an 80 Gb hard disk which is big enough for the average home user. It has a 15.4" TFT monitor. It can play about 2 hours of DVD playback ...
...hours while doing normal work on it. It's very good value for money but it does have bad things going for it aswell.

The keyboard was the main let down for me as it has been crushed into a small space and i pretty hard to get used to it. They have tried to cram a whole numerical keypad onto the side of the keyboard which is only useful if you are doing alot of spreadsheet work for business and if you are you probably wont be buying ... more

I got this as a Christmas present last year as i needed a laptop to do school work surf the internet and just th usual sorts of things. This laptop is great for that and more.

It comes with a 1.8 ghz AMD sempron processor which is pretty good for the £500 this laptop costs. It has 1 gb of ram and an 80 Gb hard disk which is big enough for the average home user. It has a 15.4" TFT monitor. It can play about 2 hours of DVD playback at full charge and it can do just under 3 hours while doing normal work on it. It's very good value for money but it does have bad things going for it aswell.

The keyboard was the main let down for me as it has been crushed into a small space and i pretty hard to get used to it. They have tried to cram a whole numerical keypad onto the side of the keyboard which is only useful if you are doing alot of spreadsheet work for business and if you are you probably wont be buying a £500 laptop. The trackpad has also been pushed off centre to the left meaning you keep your hands based over to one side which is not too big a problem just takes a bit to get used to and it does look quite odd.

Its not all bad news for this laptop though it has its good points aswell. Having a 1.8 ghz processor and 1 gb of ram means you have a good bit of power to play with. As i said i really only wanted this laptop to do basic things on and not to anything very demanding but if you really want to this laptop will be able to play a couple of games on it pretty well. If you are wanting one to play games on aswell you should be looking for something a bit more expensive though.

Its real strengths lie else where though with it being able to play 2 hours of DVD playback and just under 3 hours of normal work on it, it is a great choice for video and music playback. Its brightness and screen quality also helps for this. It's also very good for multimedia tasks such as video editing because of a built in firewire port and an S-video output.

It is let down on how solidly built it is though. It feels quite flimsy but this shouldn't be a problem if you are using it for your average house user but its probably not one to let your kids play around with.

So all round its pretty impressive on the power side of things and good for multimedia work but its main let down is the keyboard set out. I would recomend it to you if you were looking for a laptop for about £500 which you would use for quite simple tasks and maybe play a few games on it but if you would be annoyed by the keyboard its really not worth it.  

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