{"id":566,"date":"2012-03-29T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=566"},"modified":"2012-03-29T09:00:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T09:00:13","slug":"msi-gt680-mini-review-2-00ghz-core-i7-2630qm-gtx-460m-1-5gb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"MSI GT680 mini-review (2.00GHz Core i7-2630QM, GTX 460M 1.5GB)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pahDkZU9oJ8?fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pahDkZU9oJ8?fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;quick&#8221; mini-review of the MSI GT680R-008US gaming laptop. Glad I switched from a Mac. Couldn&#8217;t be happier with my purchase. A new MacBook Pro with similar specs would cost nearly 00 more than this did. Speaking of the price, it&#8217;s only 99 on Newegg (I paid 49 for it because I bought it directly from MSI). Specs: &#8211; 2.00GHz Core i7-2630QM, 2.9GHz Turbo Boost, Sandy Bridge, Intel HD 3000 &#8211; Nvidia GTX 460M 1.5GB GPU &#8211; 8GB RAM 1066MHz (4x2GB, as there are 4 RAM slots) &#8211; 1TB HDD (500GBx2 in RAID0; put one of them into a USB 3.0 enclosure and replaced the original with a 64GB Corsair Nova V64 SSD) &#8211; 1920&#215;1080 15.6&#8243; display (16:9 aspect ratio, for those who can&#8217;t do math) &#8211; 2xUSB 3.0, 2xUSB 2.0, 1xE-SATA, 1xHDMI, 1xVGA, card reader &#8211; Audio system by Dynaudio, which is simply the best speaker system you&#8217;ll ever find in a laptop &#8211; 2.0MP HD webcam &#8211; Full-sized keyboard w\/numpad &#8211; 10\/100\/1000 [Gigabit] ethernet All that for 99? Lets see your stupid MacBook Pro give you all of those things for just 99. Will never ever happen. PCs will always provide a better value. I can care less about software, design, and support options. twitter.com www.msi.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;quick&#8221; mini-review of the MSI GT680R-008US gaming laptop. Glad I switched from a Mac. Couldn&#8217;t be happier with my purchase. A new MacBook Pro with similar specs would cost nearly 00 more than this did. Speaking of the price, it&#8217;s only 99 on Newegg (I paid 49 for it because I bought it directly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1597,1593,1596,1594,1591,1595,1592],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid-design","tag-1-5gb","tag-2-00ghz","tag-460m","tag-core","tag-gt680","tag-i72630qm","tag-minireview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}