MSI rounds Out Classic Series with CX700 CR700 Notebooks 17.3-in Multimedia Notebook PCs with HDMI Out

Taiwan's MSI has been working diligently to build a fairly respectable
product portfolio and its recent announcement Friday regarding its new
CX700 and CR700 notebooks came as little surprise to most. These two
17.3-in laptop computers will serve to complete (if we can ever say that
about MSI) their Classic series of notebooks and are meant to appeal to
the multimedia set.

The CX700 and CR700 notebooks join the recently-introduced 16-in CX600
and CR600 duo, which, in turn, followed the debut of the 14-inch CR400.
There isn't really anything different when it comes to the external
design of the two new units, but they do feature a 2.1-channel speaker
system, an HDMI output and LED-backlit display with 1600×900
resolution.

The main difference between the CX700 and CR700 is the graphics
processing hardware. The CX700 uses ATI's Mobility Radeon HD 4330 High
Performance 3D card with 512MB of dedicated VRAM. The CR700 while the
latter uses NVIDIA's GeForce 8200M G GPU that shares memory with the system.

Both units offer a choice of Intel Core 2 Duo processors and 250GB,
320GB or 500GB hard drives and come preloaded with Windows Vista Home
Premium edition. Bluetooth V2.0 with EDR remains an option on both
systems. There is an integrated 1.3-megapixel webcam, wi-fi and gigabit
Ethernet port and built-in microphone. Some additional toys include a
4-in-1 card reader, three USB ports and a DVD burner. There has yet to
be any release regarding pricing for these or any of the other Classic
series PCs.