MSI TurboBook GX600 Gaming Notebook

 

The very last thing you want after dropping a tidy £850 down for a brand new notebook, is for it to get smashed up by the courier. As we can see from below, the GX600 is delivered in a double walled cardboard box printed with the MSI logo. The sides of the outer box also have stickers affixed that tell you exactly what model notebook is contained within.

 

 

 

Inside the box you will find the notebook contained within its own (slightly more snazzy) black cardboard box with G Series logo’s printed on all sides, an MSI red and black rucksack and a set of rather tacky looking gaming headphones complete with a microphone.

 

 

 

The notebook is well protected inside the inner packaging, and sits roughly in the middle of the box thanks to the cardboard spacers. As you’d expect the GX600 comes with everything required to get you up and running including a Lite-On mains charger, power cord, battery, manuals and Windows Vista disks. Also included is a cleaning cloth to help keep the reflective surface of the notebook fingerprint free.

 

 

Going in for a closer look we can see that the battery included with the GX600 is a 10.8v Lithium Ion model rated at 4800mAh. This is fairly average for a fully fledged notebook, but it would have been nice to see something slightly beefier considering notebooks such as ASUS’s EEE PC are now provided with 5400mAh batteries.

 

Also included in the package is a 5 button gaming mouse complete with sensitivity control and the same reflective black surface seen on the headphones (and indeed the notebook itself). However, while this is most certainly a nice touch by MSI, I doubt many gamers will be switching from their existing mice.