The folks at MSI are already teasing us with their upcoming CES 2011 launches. There are apparently a few Android tablets and mainstream laptops on the way, but the most interesting detail is without a doubt that MSI claims to be ready to launch the “fastest notebook ever” at CES.
It’s called GT680, and according to MSI it can attain a PCMark Vantage score of 18,162 points, which is impressive indeed. That score even rivals some high-end desktop configurations and would put it ahead of all its current competitors.
MSI doesn’t supply the exact specifications, but mentions that it includes Intel’s latest quad-core CPU, nVidia’s latest generation GeForce graphics card (that would be the Fermi line, possibly the GTX 480M), and four DDR3 memory slots that allows for up to 16GB of memory.
It also supports what MSI calls “accelerated dual hard disk architecture, which not only doubles storage capacity, but also kicks up read-write speed by approximately 70%.” That would mean two hard drives running in RAID 0, then? Not exactly revolutionary, but a nice performance boost nonetheless.
However, it sounds like the main reason that the GT680 can claim the “fastest laptop in the world” title is the fact that it uses MSI’s proprietary TDE+ (Turbo Drive Engine+ technology) which allows both the CPU and GPU to overclock simultaneously–an improvement over the old version which just overclocked the CPU.
Hi Asheley! You are correct to point this out. This is an older entry and in hindsight it didn’t really turn out to be the “fastest laptop ever” as MSI claimed (not my claim, hence the quotation marks). Turns out it was fitted with a GTX 460M GPU, which is OK, but hardly makes it eligible for “fastest ever”.
-David (writer)
The features presented in this blog do not claim it to be the fastest laptop ever. Some more attributes are needed here.