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The CX623 is shipped with a protective felt cloth between the keyboard and screen.
First impressions are positive, everything is a high gloss finish (including the screen) which will appeal to a wide audience.
The whole chassis is based around a glossy ‘pinstripe' finish which is rather attractive. We aren't that happy with the oversized sticker to the left of the trackpad but it should be able to be removed easily enough. We find it slightly amusing to see the screen described as ‘glare type' on the sticker which roughly translates to a ‘high gloss finish'.
Connectivity is rather spartan on both sides of the laptop, with a BluRay drive installed on the right, behind a USB 2.0 port (ideal position for a mouse).
On the left are several card media slots, headphone and microphone jacks and a 10/100/1000 lan port. At the back is a cooling port which expels the hot air.
Along the rear is an eSATA/USB 2.0 hybrid port, another USB 2.0 port and HDMI and VGA out. There is a security fitting and a power connector feed here also.
The trackpad is finished in the same pinstripe design as the rest of the chassis with a row of buttons in front which show status of various laptop functionality. Along the top right is the power button and two keys which can be programmed to open software installed.
The ‘chiclet' keyboard is very pleasant to use and offers a reasonable level of user feedback, although we noticed a fair amount of flex in the middle.
Below is a video showing the keyboard flexing when under heavy typing pressure.
Great looking laptop, not so sure about the keyboard flex, although more laptops seem to have this problem now. it is down to cut price support beams or something?
The pinstripe is cool, liked the close up shot. interesting how they make the pattern with dots.
Good battery life, seems all round very impressive, apart from hardcore gaming.
If they sold this with a better GFX id be all over it.
Excellent, I actually saw this in PCWORLD over here last week, and was t empted, but I wasnt sure about the performance. Hey whats with MSI putting a warranty void over the screw? thats a bad move, how are we meant to upgrade it? send it back to them for an extra cost 🙁 that pissed me off.
310M seems to suck hard. rest of it is good however. but id need something more beefy for my laptop in gaming side.
Not many ports down the sides, id like 3 USBs, 2 on one side and 1 on the other, not most of them on the back, its a pain to get there. a few other ideas I like with the design, but that pinstripe thing would hurt my eyes.
Good review, battery life is impressive considering the power of the CPU. Im not keen on the styling myself, it loks like a toshiba machine I had years ago.
What about the build quality? it looks ok, but are all the parts fitted well?
Not for me, im a sony man through and through
Temps are good and battery life. the pros outweigh the cons, shame about the lackluster gfx performance.
I have had a MSI 3 series laptop for years now and have no intention of replacing it. I only surf and play flash gameson the move. I can recommend them as a laptop they rock.
For 600 quid it seems fairly good although acer do a machine with a better gfx and the same CPU for 650.
I like it, its better than my desktop machine right now 🙁 im poor !
The overall machine looks like it would burn your eyes out in sunlight, so many reflective surfaces. good job getting the pictures taken without burning all the surfaces out! Not my scene really I like alienware.
MSI make great machines, i love their gear.
i bought this laptop yesterday from an ebay saller for 415pounds new i think i made a good deal 😉
I had one last two day … its stupied laptop .. its said it will switch to nidia GPU with it have load gaming and it didnt most time + you can not switch to 1 gb nvidia card manully or by and way ..there is no way to switch manully btween GPU in it .. I which i can sell it with helf price ..its ig lose