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What’s rectangular, coated in a royal bronze finish, opens like a clam and lasts for up to seven and a half hours? If you answered MSI’s new CR41 notebook, you’d be right (though we would’ve accepted self-destructing jewelry boxes as an answer). The 14-inch multimedia “mobile companion,” announced just today, packs a 1,366 x 768 HD display, dedicated HM76 graphics chipset, choice of Intel’s third-generation Core i processors and comes in a variety of storage configurations: 500 GB, 640GB or 720GB. Weighing in at 5.3 pounds (2.4kg) and measuring 13.8 x 9.2 x 1.3 inches (349.7 x 234.8 x 32mm), the laptop also features a six-cell 4,400mAh battery, support for Bluetooth 4.0 and WiFi b/g/n, an optical drive, ports for HDMI, USB 3.0 (x2), USB 2.0 (x2), an SD slot and the requisite headphone jack. So far no official pricing or release dates have been made public for the Windows 7 rig, but when it does hit retailers’ shelves, rest assured it’ll be upgrade-ready for Redmond’s next great OS. Follow on past the break for the official PR.

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MSI has just unveiled a new line of SSDs namely the Reflex Series. Coming in 60GB, 120GB and 240GB sizes, these 2.5-inch SSDs are packed with MLC NAND Flash memory chips, a SATA 6.0 Gbps interface, a SandForce SF2281 controller, a MTBF of 2 million hours and capable of delivering read/write speeds of up to 525/495 MB/s (60GB Model), 550/515 MB/s (120GB Model) and 560/525 MB/s (240GB Model), respectively. Pricing and release date are still unknown at the moment. [MSI]

When it comes to gaming notebooks, you cannot have them small and light – and this particular rule has no two ways about it. After all, no gamer worth his or her salt is going to sit there and play on a tiny display, and neither do they want stripped down parts to the bare essentials that it cannot even crank out a decent frame rate, never mind that lugging a real gaming notebook around is no mean feat on one’s shoulders. Well, MSI hears this clarion call, and have just updated their GT70 and GT60 gaming notebooks with the latest NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M graphics chipset, which is said to be the fastest mobile GPU to date.

It will be powered by a speedy Intel Core i7-3610QM processor, a Killer E2200 Game Network, Dynaudio Tech speakers with THX Surround Sound and SteelSeries Programmable Backlit Keyboard, ensuring that gamers will be able to experience the ultimate in mobile gaming, although I see this as a waste for folks who want to purchase this just to play Facebook games all day long. It is a travesty, I say!

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: MSI GT60 and GT70 Gaming Notebooks Launched, MSI GT783 gaming notebook announced,

Taiwan-based electronics company MSI is prepping up its newest addition to its line of computer products – Solid State Drives (SSDs). According to InsideIndustryNews who claims to have an inside connection with MSI, the Taiwanese tech giant is reportedly working on three solid state drives that are based on the SandForce SF-2281 processor. They are the RX-60 (60GB), the RX-120 (120GB), and the RX-240 (240GB). The aforementioned SSDs will provide 6 gigabits per second of bandwidth. Details regarding its availability and pricing are yet to be announced.

This is interesting because MSI is usually known for its line of motherboards, notebooks, desktops, and graphic cards. This goes to show that the company is indeed pushing its boundaries even further as it enters into the SSD business. Micro-Star International is one of the world’s largest motherboard manufacturers. The company was first founded in 1986 and it created the world’s first overclocking motherboard a year after. MSI has yet to release an official statement. Stay tuned for more updates.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Intel Series 330 SSD reaches 240GB and dips below $1/GB, Plextor M5S Series Solid State Drive launched,

ASK Inc. Japan is set to launch MSI’s latest graphics card ‘N670GTX Twin Frozr IV PE OC’. This high performance card is packed with 1344 CUDA Cores, a 256-bit memory interface, a core clock of 1019MHz (1079MHz Boost Clock) and a 2GB of GDDR5 memory set @ 6008MHz. The card also employs the fourth generation Twin Frozr cooling system and features 1x dual-link DVI-I, 1x dual-link DVI-D, 1x HDMI and 1x DisplayPort outputs. The N670GTX Twin Frozr IV PE OC will become available from July 10th for 45,980 Yen (about $574). [Product Page]